CMC principal gets award

Ludhiana, November 26

Prof Jeyaraj D Pandian, principal, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, has received the prestigious Global Stroke Services award conferred by the World Stroke Organisation (WSO) for his contribution towards the development of stroke care services in the country and other developing countries.

He is the first Asian to receive the award at the recently concluded joint virtual World Stroke Congress and the European Stroke Organisation Conference held in Vienna, Austria.

Dr Pandian is also the current vice-president of the WSO. He had chaired the international working group of the World Stroke Campaign and is a member of several committees in the WSO.

Dr Pandian developed the Ludhiana urban population-based stroke registry in 2013 and with the department of community medicine at the CMC completed the rural population-based stroke registry two years ago. These stroke surveillance models have been implemented by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in five other regions of the country.

With funding support from the ICMR, he created the first disease network for clinical trials in the country named as the Indian Stroke Clinical Trial Network (INSTRuCT).Dr William Bhatti, director, CMCH, said it was a matter of honour for the CMC, Ludhiana, and for the state that he had been conferred with the award.

He said the department of neurology was the only centre in the region to have all facilities to treat stroke or brain attack. — TNS