PGI Professor awarded

Chandigarh: Dr Neerja Bharti, Professor in the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, PGI, here, has been awarded as one of the finalists for the “BMJ Award South Asia 2017” in the category of “non-communicable diseases initiative of the year” for her contribution to the field of oral cancer pain management. Over 2,000 doctors from eight South Asian countries participated for this award, organised by the British Medical Association in New Delhi. TNS

Honour for PGI

Chandigarh: The PGI has been judged as the second best for medical education, research and also multi-speciality patient care among 15 best institutes in India. The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, stands first. As a hospital, the PGI once again stands second best among the top fifteen multi-speciality hospitals in India and also having second best research facilities by The Week-NIELSEN Best Hospitals Survey 2017 published in The Week. Among the best hospital specialities, PGI stands second in pulmonology; third in diabetic care, gastroenterology and neurology. Specialities of orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology and paediatrics are fourth and cardiology and ophthalmology are eighth. The hospital is also the second best public hospital in the North Zone of the country. TNS

First national workshop ends

Chandigarh: The PGI successfully completed its first national workshop on “pharmacogenomics using next generation sequencing”. Organising chairman Dr Bikash Medhi and organising vice-chairman Dr Ajay Prakash said the workshop was highly successful with participants from AIIMS, New Delhi, ICMR, JIPMER, PGIMER and other premier institutes and ranged from both industry and academia. The workshop was inaugurated by remarkable speeches of Director PGI Prof Jagat Ram and Prof Rajesh Kumar, Dean, Academics. The topics covered were from basics of pharmacogenomics to advanced topics like next generation sequencing. There was also practical hands-on session on primer designing, DNA extraction and next generation sequencing data analysis. TNS