Thursday, November 19, 2009

International CME on Dec 30,2009 at Sharjah

One Day International CME Program
Organized by AKMG Emirates
in association with AKMG(USA) and AAPI, USA
Venue: Holiday International, Sharjah, UAE
Date: Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009
Speakers from US, UK, Canada and Middle east.
Accreditation: 8 CME Credit Hours, from UAE University, Al ain.

Click here for details and to Register for the Continuing Medical Education Program:
http://www.akmgemirates.org/

Monday, June 29, 2009

Best Doctor Award for Our Founder President Dr.Azad Moopen.


Congratulations to Dr.Azad Moopen, the founder President of AKMG Emirates for bagging the Best Doctor in Private sector Award 2008 from the Govt. of Kerala. He will receive the award at Thiruvananthapuram on July 1st, the Doctors' Day.

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Friday, June 5, 2009

AKMG Emirates Dubai Chapter CME on June 8th Monday

AKMG Emirates Dubai Chapter CME on June 8th Monday

On 8th Monday AKMG Emirates Dubai Chapter is organising a CME talk on " Neurological Diseases of 20th Century" .

We are lucky to have a reknowned speaker Prof .Satishchandra who is here on a visit .

I have applied for DOH accreditation and am hopeful of getting it though the time is very short.
Requesting all members to attend and make use of this wonderful opportunity .

Venue is Lotus Hotel in Deira .
Time will be 9.30 PM

Best regards
Dr Nirmala Raghunathan, Secretary, AKMG Emirates Dubai Chapter

Dr.P.Satishchandra
M.B.B.S., D.M.(Neuro), FAMS, FIAN
Professor, Department of Neurology,
National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS),

Brief Bio-Data
Dr.P.Satishchandra currently working as an ‘Professor of Neurology’ at the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. This post has been held by me since July 2000 till date

Currently working as ‘Clinical Director’, head of all clinical services at Asian Neuro & Cardiac Center (ANCC), at Kulalampur, Malaysia from 1st December, 2008 on sabbatical from NIMHANS.

After completing D.M.(Neurology) from NIMHANS in 1981, I was selected as a faculty member in the department of neurology in 1982 at NIMHANS. He was selected as an ‘International Neuro Sciences Fellow’ at NINDS, National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA for 1 year. This was sponsored by WHO –Fogarty – NIH Subsequently was a visiting associate for 3 more months at NIH, USA. During this time he worked in the field of Neuroepidemiology and Epilepsy.

Awarded ‘Senior visiting fellowship’ at ‘Raymond way research group’ at Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK for six months in November 1999-2000

Field of Interest – Epilepsy, Electroencephalography and Evoked potentials, Neuroepidemiology and Neuro infections including Neuro-AIDS.

He has 173 papers in the national and international journals and also edited two monographs on Epilepsy and one on Techniques in Neuro Sciences.

He initiated “ Epilepsy Control Programme” in India and conducted 10 workshops with the support of WHO- SEARO, New Delhi.

He has prestigious R O1 project grant from NIH, USA and conducting a Research Project on “Longitudinal Neurological progression of HIV 1 & HIV 2 “

Awards & Prizes:

1. In recognition of the contribution in the field of medical science, he was awarded prestigious ‘Sir C.V.Raman Young Scientist Award’ by Government of Karnataka in 1997.


2.He was awarded by “Amruth Mody Unichem prize” for Neurology for the year 1998 by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). This was for his outstanding research in Epilepsy..

3.His paper received Hindustan Ciba Geigy-Gold medal for the best paper in epilepsy in the two consecutive annual conference of NSI in 1991, 1993 and ‘Sun Pharma best research paper in Epilepsy in Annual conference of Indian Academy of Neurology in 1996 and 2006 and also one award in ‘Epilepsy conference (ECON)’ in 2004 at Lucknow and two awards in 2005 at Jaipur

4. His paper was also selected for ‘Young Investigator Award’ in the International Epilepsy Congress at Oslo, Norway in 1993.

5. Awarded Dr.B.C.Roy ‘Doctors Day Award’ by IMA- CGHS, Bangalore, July 2003.

6. Awarded Fellow of Indian Academy of Neurology ( FIAN) - 1998

7 Awarded Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences (FAMS) by the National academy of Medical sciences, New Delhi. 2003

Orations:

He was a Visiting professor in the Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry in November 1997 gave JIPMER Scientific society lecture.

He gave prestigious “George Burden Memorial International Lecturer” at ‘British Epilepsy Conference’ held at Edinburgh, UK in March 2000.

He delivered prestigious “Sarabai Oration” by Associations of Physicians of India in January 1997.

Awarded Mr.Sanjeev Rao oration at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad in December 2000

Awarded first K.S.Mani oration and delivered oration on “Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy “ at Cochin, May, 2006

Awarded ‘ Dharmija’s ‘oration and delivered a lecture on “ Genetics of Epilepsy – from Bench to bedside” at Delhi Neurological association (DNA), Feb, 2007

Awarded “ Dr. Abdul Gafoor memorial Oration” and delivered the lecture on ‘Neurological Disease of the 20th Centuary : From Bench to Bedside ‘at MSM Medical college, Calicat, 23rd May, 2009


Various offices
:
He was an Associate Editor of Neurology India, Epilepsy Digest, Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology and zonal advisory member for JAPI.

He has been elected as ‘Treasurer ‘of Indian academy of Neurology in 2002 & 2005 totally for six years

He was President of the Indian Epilepsy Association (Bangalore Chapter) , Governing Council member of IEA (Central)

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Wise NRI Investments in Crunch Times


Wise NRI Investments in Crunch Times.
A One Day Seminar Organized by AKMG Emirates


AKMG Emirates is happy to announce an important Investment Seminar for its members on June 5th, Friday from 10 am to 3 pm.


Venue: Asia Palace Restaurant, Mubarak Centre, Sharjah


The meeting is being arranged in association with JRG Investments and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance.


The seminar will cover essentials of NRI investments in general and will have a Mock Online trading demo. Members will have facility to open an instant account for trading, which will be a step by step guided investment programme.


Do not miss the opportunity: Register yourself and your spouse early to avoid disappointment. Preference will be given to AKMG SSS and Life members.


Call Shaji before May 30th to Register Yourself and your spouse:


06-5626900
0509968040


Monday, May 18, 2009

AKMG Emirates Family Medical Insurance

The Sun Insurance Brokers have requested the help of the Chapter Officebearers in getting the details of members and the cheques before June 1st for the Group Family Medical Insurance.

All chapter presidents, secretaries and CWC members are requested to take active interest in collecting the same and hanidng over these to the Chapter secretary so that the brokers can collect it straight from the secretaries.

Dr.Chithra has prepared an excellent Registration form for the Insurance. The form is available for download at our web page:

http://www.akmgemirates.org

Pls contact all SSS and Life members and have them join.

Remember:

  • No one can join for one year once the insurance is launched
  • The charges are only one third of regular premiums for identical insurances
  • Take it up earnestly in your respective chapters and have maximum members sign up.
  • This scheme is open only for AKMG SSS and Life members only.

AKMG Emirates Abudhabi Chapter CME Friday, 29 May, 2009

Announcing AKMG ABUDHABI CME CONFERENCE _ DENTAL Venue - CROWNE PLAZA, Hamdan street, ABUDHABI Date - 29 MAY 2009 , FRIDAY Time - Registration 8:00 - 8:30 Conference 8:30 - 17:00
ACCREDITED BY FMHS-UAE University, Al Ain(approved by HAAD) for 7.5 CME CREDIT HOURS.


Registration Fees : Early Bird Upto May 20th 09Doctors Dhs 300. Nurses,Technicians & Pharmacists Dhs 200.May 21st to 27th 09Doctors Dhs 350. Nurses,Technicians & Pharmacists Dhs 225 Spot registrationDoctors Dhs 400.Nurses, technicians & Pharmacists Dhs 250.(Kindly add 15dhs extra for Outstation Cheques)
Payment in the form of Cash/Cheque/DD/ Direct remittance in favour of Dr Bhanu Sanjayan, A/c No. 01 7558775 01 Standard Chartered Bank Abudhabi

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Agenda, Annual Report, Minutes of AGM , Details of AKMG Family Insurance Scheme

The files are uploaded on our web page. Please log onto our web page to download the Agenda, Minutes of AGM 2008, Annual Report, bye law amendments and Family Heathcare Insurance to be launched soon.

Here is how to:

  • Log on to akmgemirates.org
  • Click Membership
  • Fill in Details. Create your username and password.
  • Then log in using the username & password you have created.
  • Click downloads for agenda, minutes, annual report & details of the AKMG Family Healthcare Insurance.

Filling in the full details is important for your patients to find you on the net.

In case you could not log in, the links are provided in the scrolling NEWS items

Note: To start with, fill in your name, chapter, emirate, e mail ID and other red asterix, choose a username and password and the click save, otherwise you may be timed out. Them log in using the username and password you have created and you can conplete the profile later on. While filling the profile, click save after every 2-3 entries to avoid being timed out.