Prestigious US-INDIA NIH Research Grant Award for INDUSEM Leaders

INDUSEM Leader Professor Deepak Agrawal and his partners led by Principal Investigators Professor Rajajee and Professor Raghavendran from the University of Michigan have won the prestigious US-INDIA Research Award from the Coveted National Institutes of Health USA.

The National Institute of biomedical Imaging and bioengineering / NIH-USA has awarded the research award for evaluating the use of ultrasound to measure optic nerve sheath diameter in patients with severe traumatic brain injury patients in India.

This grant invoves teams at All India Institute of Medical sciences (AIIMS, New Delhi, India: PI-Dr. Deepak Agrawal) as part of the US-India collaborative. Other key members of the study are Dr. Vineet Chopra, Dr. Mary Rogers from the Department of Medicine and Dr. Aditya Pandey, Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan.

“Today INDUSEM has achieved the epitome of its Academic Glory as one of its key leaders is a part of the NIH Award winning team led by Professor Raghavendran from UM. Professor Raghavendran and his team at University of Michigan have been tirelessly working for the last few years to establish Academic Injury Sciences in India. Professor Raghavendran and his mentorship coupled with his leadership is not only commendable but his dedication to Academics is a Lesson for all Academicians. Professor Deepak recently won the CIO of the Year award for his landmark effort to make AIIMS Paper Less and enforce Electronic Health Records across the Institute. INDUSEM has committed to the Emergency Ultrasound Science Mission under the stewardship of Professor Sanjeev Bhoi and Professor Deepak is a key player in that mission. Together they lead the International Council for Critical Emergency Sonography which offers a variety of research and education opportunities with presence in multiple nations across the world..UK, USA to mention some of them. Winning an NIH grant for India is the greatest gift which INDUSEM has received from its leader. We at INDUSEM are proud of the whole team. Congratulations to all the Academicians ” said INDUSEM CEO Dr. Sagar Galwankar

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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 University of Michigan Health:

The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) is the wholly owned academic medical center of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. UMHS includes the U-M Medical School, with its Faculty Group Practice and many research laboratories; the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers, which includes University Hospital, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, 120 outpatient clinics and approximately 40 health centers; the clinical programs of the U-M School of Nursing; and the activities of the Michigan Health Corporation, through which UMHS partners with other medical centers and hospitals to provide specialized care throughout Michigan. (Wikepedia Source) For More Information: http://www.uofmhealth.org/

About ICCES:

The International Council for Critical Emergency Sonography (ICCES) was set up in 2010 as a Coalition of Academic Leaders across the World with a focus on developing the Science and Innovation in the Field of Acute Care Sonography in Emergency and Critical Medicine. Lead by Experts from Europe, Middle East, Asia and The United States ICCES has become a platform for collaborative research, education and development across the Academic World. ICCES runs various training programs across the World and is the Inventor of the World Famous AUTLS Training Course: The AIIMS Advance Ultrasound in Trauma and Life Support: www.indusem.org/leadership-councils/

About EMTECH:

Entrepreneurship, Management & Technology Enhancement Center for Health # “Developing Health Systems for Patient Safety and Quality Care”-EMTECH was formally shaped after the mammoth success of INDUSEM2007. In the past years since the inception of the INDUSEM there was an increasing demand in India that the INDUS Leaders create world class quality health care systems fortified in their approach for safe patient care. Education, Regulation and Technology Enhancement were key fundamentals of this area of need. To fulfill this need EMTECH was founded. For More Information: https://www.indusem.org/technology/

About AIIMS, New Delhi:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi (AIIMS Delhi; Hindi: IAST: AkhilBharatiyaAyurvignanSamsthanDilli) was established in 1956 and operates autonomously under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. AIIMS was the vision of RajkumariAmrit Kaur, the first Health Minister of India, to establish an institute of such nature in India. Today AIIMS is one the World’s Leading Medical Education, Research and Patient Care Institute. For More Information: www.aiims.edu

About NIH USA:

Per Wikepedia “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a biomedical research facility primarily located in Bethesda, Maryland. An agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, it is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. The NIH both conducts its own scientific research through its Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program. With 1,200 principal investigators and more than 4,000 postdoctoral fellows in basic, translational, and clinical research, the IRP is the largest biomedical research institution in the world,[3] while, as of 2003, the extramural arm provided 28% of biomedical research funding spent annually in the U.S., or about US$26.4 billion” For More Information: www.nih.gov