Written by INDUS MED NEWS 3 April, 2016 11:53 pm .
INDUSEM Pediatric Emergency Medicine leaders and life partners Dr. Abhijeet Saha and Dr. Prerna Batra now have achieved Full Professorship at their respective MCI recognized Medical Colleges. It is interesting journey for this Lovely couple who are committed academicians from their days in college to where they are in their academic careers. It was a proud moment for INDUSEM as this Power Couple has steered the growth of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Mission in India. They were the key players in inking the Landmark Paper titled” “White paper of development of Pediatric Emergency Medicine as a super specialty in India” which was simultaneously published in The International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science and Indian Pediatrics. “INDUSEM potrays Quality Academicis and is made up of Leaders who are disciplined dedicated and defining by their actions and their vitues embodied with a firm senesce of passion and commitment to the development of healthcare in India. Abhijeet and Prerna are true leaders who befit this ideology and together as Man and wife and Fellows Pediatricians in Academics they have steered the growth of Pediatric Emergency Medicine in India. We are very proud of them and wish them and their daughter all the very best. There is more to come from this Pediatric Power Couple” Said Dr. Sagar Galwankar CEO of INDUSEM.
About Dr. Abhijeet Saha, MD, FACEE Dr. Abhijeet Saha, MD, FACEE, is now the Professor of Pediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi. This is the largest pediatric hospital in India. He is Fellow of Academic College of Emergency Experts in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, under the aegis of INDO US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative since the year 2014. He has also received formal training in Pediatric Nephrology at various national and international institutes, his area of special interest being renal and electrolyte abnormalities. He has more than fifty publications, mostly international and many chapters in text books. He has attended and presented his papers in many international and national conferences and has received appreciation for it. He has organized many international and national conferences and also conducted various workshops. He is a member of editorial board of Indian Pediatrics, official journal of Indian Academy of Pediatrics and is section editor of the Journal Club section. He has mentored many MD students and has been an examiner in various universities across India. He is National Coordinator of FACEE (PEM) program of the college.
About Dr. Prerna Batra, MD, FACEE Dr. Prerna Batra, MD, FACEE is now the Professor of Pediatrics at University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Delhi, India. This is a 1500 bedded tertiary care teaching hospital, the only one located in East Delhi, catering to the population of adjoining Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Nepal. She completed her Fellowship of Academic College of Emergency Experts in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, under the aegis of INDO US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative in the year 2014. She has special interest in neonatal emergencies as well. She has more than forty publications to her credit apart from chapters in books. Her paper was awarded 1st Prize in “James Flett Award Category” for best paper in PEDICON 2013 (national conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics), held at Kolkata. She is national instructor for Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS). She had been a member of editorial board of Journal of Neonatology and Indian Journal of Nursing Psychiatry. She has attended and actively organized various international and national conferences. She has been mentoring DNB and MD students. Also she has supervised many undergraduate students for their ‘short term ICMR projects’ many of them published in international journals.
About INDUSEM: The INDUSEM mission is to envision and implement the future of Patient Care across the world. The partnership brings together Expert Educators, Inquisitive Innovators and Physicians supporting Safe Patient Care across India, United States and the World. INDUSEM is the Top International Partnership across the World and brings together Institutions, Individuals and Initiatives focused on improving patient care globally. Till date INDUSEM has reached over 50,000 Experts and its reach continues to grow daily. For more information, visit www.indusem.org
About ACEE: The Academic College of Emergency Experts was established by Leaders of INDUSEM to create a guild of expert clinicians who are have a mastery at providing safe patient care with high quality therapeutics based on latest evidence based medicine. The only Unique College in Asia ACEE only bestows affiliation after a rigorous coaching and testing process hereby maintaining its high standards of commitment to education and excellence. It surpasses the erstwhile ideology of existing academic colleges where affiliation is based on recommendation. There are multiple pathways to be a Fellow of the College namely Emergency Medicine, Emergency Pediatrics. Toxicology, Emergency Nursing Pathway etc. For More Information. Visit www.acee-india.org
About Lady Harding Medical College: “Lady Hardinge Medical College is a Medical College for women located in New Delhi. Established in 1916, it became part of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi in 1950. It is among the top medical institutions in India. The college is funded by the Government of India. The College has come a long way, retaining its unique character, still marching ahead with the times and is upgrading itself dynamically in all its fields of activities. It is ranked among the top medical colleges in India. Being a women’s college, it only enrolls female candidates. Initially, the college registered 14-16 medical students every year from all over the country. Since 2011 the admission capacity to the MBBS course has been raised to 200 seats. The college has two hospitals- Smt. Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, and Kalawati Saran Child Hospital with bed strength of 877 and 350 respectively, for teaching & training of students. The college and hospital also provides tertiary level medical facilities to Delhites. Since 1991, hospital is also providing services to male patients as well. The department of Microbiology of Lady Hardinge Medical College is internationally acclaimed for its salmonella phage typing, and it is a WHO collaborating centre for reference and training in streptococcal diseases for South East Asia. It is also a surveillance center for AIDS. The first ART center for children in the country, was also started in LHMC in 2007” Per Wikepedia . For More Information visit http://www.hardinge.org/
About University College of Medical Sciences: “University College of Medical Sciences along with Maulana Azad Medical College and Lady Hardinge Medical College – forms the trifecta of Medical Institutes affiliated to the University of Delhi in Delhi, India. It is associated with Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, which serves as the teaching hospital. UCMS is among the best medical colleges in the country and is ranked among top institutes in PubMed journal index. The college offers medical & paramedical courses.[5] It was the first Indian medical college to start a Medical Humanities Group.[6][7] UCMS also organised the first ever ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ workshop for medical students in India in 2011.[8] It also caters to the health care needs for the East Delhi community and surrounding border areas.[5] The institute is a network centre for the National Brain Research Centre. The college serves as the nodal centre for AIDS and Safdarjung Hospitals. It is one of the three public trauma centre in Delhi in addition to Susruta Trauma Centre and Jai Prakash Narayana Trauma Centre at AIIMS and is fully equipped with burns ward.” Per Wikepedia For More Information visit http://www.ucms.ac.in/
