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mDece ber 2012
Newsletter of Sri Ramachandra University
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Our Campus Spiritual Shade
From the Editor’s Desk
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Bridges Committee
Patron:
Shri. V. R. VenkataachalamChancellor
Advisory Board:
Prof. J. S. N. MurthyVice-Chancellor
Prof. S. RangaswamiProfessor of Eminence inMedical Education
Prof. K.V. SomasundaramDean of Faculties
Prof. Jayanthi Mohan
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Sheela Ravinder. S.
Editor:
Ms. Hemalatha C. R.
Co-Editor:
Mr. Antony Leo Aseer P.
Editorial Board:
Mr. Abhinand P. A.
Dr. Archana P. Kumar
Dr. Ganesh V.
Prof. Kalpana Suresh
Dr. Nithya Jagdish
Prof. Prakash Boominathan
Prof. Sandhya Sundaram
Dr. Sreelekha B.
Secretarial Assistance:
Ms. Stella Augustus
Ms. Geetha R.
Photography:
Mr. Anand Kumar A.
Art & Design:
Mr. Arunagiri S.
Printing:
Mr. Velayudam S.
Dept. of OBGYN
Beloved Readers,
Let us stay connected…
It is that time of the year when Christmas and New Year are celebrated with great
enthusiasm and gaiety all over the world. As we enjoy the festive season exchanging gifts
and feasting, let us also respond to the needs of our less fortunate world.
The month of December brings in fond memories of our beloved Ayya and his
indomitable spirit. While we incessantly endeavor to fulfill his vision, let us promote and
preserve the highest standards of quality in all areas of education, healthcare and research.
Global news in this issue underlines the need to consume a wide variety of fruits and
vegetables that provide antioxidants and protect us from the harmful effects of free radicals.
May Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill and may the
New Year be full of contentment & joy for each and every one of us. Let's look forward to
the New Year in anticipation of good times ahead and cherish each moment it beholds.
Sheela Ravinder. S. Editor-in-Chief
Cover Photo Courtesy:Mr. K. BalajiI yr., MPT
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Happenings
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Dept . of Ped ia t r ic Nursing & Vidya Sudha organized
th on 16 Nov. A cultural program was conducted by the nursing students followed by an awa r e n e s s t a l k o n Dengue fever.
Children's Day
Celebration
Dept. of Pediatrics and City Pediatrics Forum, C h e n n a i j o i n t l y conducted
ston 21 Nov. More than
100 Pediatricians in and a r o u n d C h e n n a i attended.
City Pediatric Meet November – 2012
Dept. of Environment Heal th Engineer ing along with the Regional Labour Institute (RLI), Chennai and Safety Engineers Association of India conducted a national workshop on
nd rdon 2 & 3 Nov. The special address was given by Mr. R. K. Elangovan, Director In-charge, RLI. 25 delegates participated.
Current Concepts & Tools in Occupational Health and Safety
Risk Assessment
Dept. of Cardiology conducted a workshop on
th th on 17 & 18 Nov. 25 delegates attended.
Second Module of the Pacemaker Education Course for Cardiology Postgraduates
(Prep)
D e p t s . o f P h a r m a c o g n o s y & Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy conducted
, (Sponsored by DST & ICMR) a Na t i ona l C o n f e r e n c e o n A p p r o a c h e s o f
thNanotechnology in Herbal Drug Development from 20 to nd22 Nov. Dr. Rita Banerjee, Scientist F, Science Engineering &
Research Council, Dept. of Science & Technology, New Delhi was the chief guest. 239 delegates across south India participated.
HERBOTECH 2012
A workshop on
stwas organized from 31 ndOct. to 2 Nov. by the
Medical Education Unit, a MCI recognized Nodal Center for Facul ty D e v e l o p m e n t Workshop. 32 delegates participated.
Medical Education Technologies
thDept. of Pediatrics conducted the 4 Intensive Pediatric PG Exam th thReview – on 27 and 28 Oct. 215 delegates attended.RIPE 2012
Dept. of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprosy observed
th on 29 Oct. An interactive session with patients was held. 60 patients benefited.
World Psoriasis
Day
Dept. of Pediatrics celebrated
th on 9 Nov. About 150 children participated in various events and prizes were distributed.
Children's
Day
rd thOn 3 & 4 Nov., Dept. of Psychiatry & the Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI), Chennai Chapter organized the X V I I N a t i o n a l Conference with the t h e m e
Dr. J. Radhakrishnan, IAS, Secretary of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of Tamil Nadu was the chief guest. More than 500 national & international delegates participated.
S y n e r g i z i n g Innovative Research and Technologies in Dementia Care.
December ‘12
The organized a get together thon 28 Nov. at Dhanvanthri Hall, SRU. Around 60 alumni
participated.
Alumni Association of SRMC & RI
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December ‘12
Faculty of Management Sciences organized a workshop on
rd on 3 Oct. Mr. S. Sathish Kumar, MD, Pariksith Business Consultancy was the chief resource person. 60 delegates participated.
How to Face Interview
T h e M e d H O P E Foundation organized the Annual Pediatric H e m a t o - O n c o l o g y Conference and the U n d e r g r a d u a t e R e f r e s h e r C o u r s e
. A magazine for Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, ESPERANZA 2012 was released by our Chancellor and Padmashri Sudha Ragunathan. 300 delegates from across the country attended.
H O P E 2 0 1 2 o n th13 Oct
The UG students of Facu l t y o f Den t a l Sciences participated in the TAANDAV ’12 – Intercollegiate Dento-M e d i c a l & H e a l t h Sciences Cultural Festival at Kattankulathur from
th th26 to 28 Sep. and won the overall first place in the culturals. A prize money of Rs. 23,500/- and a key board were won.
The UG students of Facu l t y o f Den t a l S c i e n c e s w o n t h e following prizes in the
th30 Tamil Nadu State Dental Conference by I n d i a n D e n t a l Association at RVS D e n t a l C o l l e g e ,
th stCoimbatore from 19 to 21 Oct.
Date Event
20.11.’12 to HERBOTECH 2012
22.11.’12 Oral presentation : Mrs. R. Lavanya, Lecturer – II Prize
Poster Presentation : Ms. Arul Jothi, III yr. B. Pharm – I Prize
Ms. C. Darsika, III yr. B. Pharm – III Prizend17.11.’12 Dr. Karthika Padmavathy, II yr. MD obtained the 2 place in poster presentation held at Chettinad
Hospital & RI
09.11.’12 Guest lecture on ‘Herbs in Health Care’ by Mr. M. Gurusamy, Former Telephone Advisory Committee Member, Govt. of India
02.11.’12 Guest lecture on ‘Virulence Factors among Influenza Viruses’ by Dr. Deepak A. Gadkari, Scientific Consultant, ICMR
02.11.’12 Guest lecture on ‘India’s Glory – Past, Present and Future – An Economic Perspective on Healthcare’ by Dr. M. Victor Louis Anthuvan, Chairperson, Ph.D Program and Professor of Finance, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
28.10.’12 Dr. Sharada T. Rajan, Sr. Lecturer was awarded the Shri. T. V. Ramachandra Rao Award for best poster at stthe 21 National Conference of Indian Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathologists at Goa
th19.10.’12 to The following UG students won awards for the scientific presentations in the 30 Tamil Nadu State
21.10.’12 Dental Conference by Indian Dental Association at RVS Dental College, Coimbatore
Name Position
Ms. Reshma P. K., II yr. Over all best paper (Oral Pathology)
Ms. R. Haritha Kamalam, CRI Best paper in Periodontics
Ms. M. Anusha, IV yr. First place in PedodonticsOverall third place in Scientific Paper Presentation
Department
Pharmacognosy & Pharmacology
Pathology
Pharmacognosy
Microbiology
SRMC & RI
Oral Pathology & Microbiology
Faculty of Dental Sciences
Event Positionst Culturals Overall 1ndSports Overall 2 ndAll the activities Overall 2
Sports & Culturals
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Glimpses
Prof. J. S. N. Murthy, Vice Chancellor, Sri Ramachandra University thhas been conferred the Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburg on 5 Oct.
Prof. Asha Moorthy, HOD, Dept. of Cardiology, SRU received the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from The Tamilnadu Dr. M. G. R.
rdMedical University, Chennai on 23 Nov. The award was presented by Dr. V. S. Vijay, Tamil Nadu Health Minister.
Prof. K. Selvakumar, HOD, Neuro-Surgery, Chairman - Telemedicine received the ‘Best Doctor Award’ from the Tamil
rdNadu Dr. M. G. R. Medical University on 23 Nov. The award was presented by Mr. K. Rosaiah, Hon’ble Governor of Tamil Nadu.
15.10.’12 CME on ‘Medical Bioinformatics’ by Prof. G. Kumaramanikavel, Director of Research, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru
th12.10.’12 to 8 AOI South Zone ENT Conference 2012 held in Vijayawada
14.10.’12 Prof. L. Somu was awarded the Gold Medal for best paper under the senior consultants paperpresentation category
lDr. B. Vivekanandan & Dr. V. Sudharsanan won the second place in PG quiz competition
18.09.’12 Tele dentistry CDE on ‘A Day with Prof. Nigel King’ Winthrop Professor Dr. Nigel King, Pediatric Dentistry, University of Western Australia delivered four guest lectures
01.12.’12 Ms. B. Chamundeswari D/o. Mr. L. Bhaskaran (Academic Section) participated in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2012
l
Bioinformatics
ENT and Head & Neck Surgery
Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry
As part of Sri Ramachandra Speech and Hearing Alumni Association (SRSHAA) rddecennial year celebration, the first hearing screening camp was held on 3 Nov. at
Premier Knit Apparels, Tirupur. Around 110 workers were evaluated out of which 12 were identified to have hearing - related issues.
Reach Out
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Happiness is...… in renouncing our ego
Ego is a misplaced sense of self-importance & false dignity which hinders our growth. Egoistic persons are only
concerned about their likes & dislikes and do not care about others. Ego drives us to do anything to get noticed &
recognized. When our ego gets satisfied, we end up with a superiority complex and when our ego is starved, we suffer from an inferiority
complex. Either way it robs us of our peace of mind. We get ego-involved with labels and positions. Human frailty is that when confronted
with labels or the positions we hold, we feel less about ourselves and try to defend it with all our might. We lose many precious relationships in
order to satisfy our ego and it is never worth the loss.
Egoistic persons are always at constant conflict with themselves & others and are irritated, impatient, stubborn and dissatisfied with
everyone. They go to any extent, relevant or irrelevant, to prove their point. They fail to make long lasting relationships, are always stressful
and mostly take refuge in their anger.
A respectable person commands respect but an egoistic person demands respect. With ego, we struggle all the time and try to win over
the situation. When we shed our ego, people will trust us & depend on us. Let us understand others' point of view, be humble, flexible &
tolerant and lead by example. Let us value our peace above everything else and gain enormous freedom in transcending our ego.
‘More the knowledge, Lesser the Ego;
Lesser the knowledge, More the Ego’
- Albert Einstein.
Eating tomatoes and tomato-based foods is associated with a lower risk of stroke. Tomatoes are high in the antioxidant, lycopene also a
carotenoid that sops up unstable molecules in the body called free radicals - agents that can induce DNA damage, kill cells, attack proteins and
contribute to blood vessel disease. Some evidence suggests that lycopene quells inflammation, limits cholesterol production and inhibits
blood clotting.
This study found that people with the highest amounts of serum lycopene were 55 percent less likely to have a stroke than people with the
lowest amounts. The serum lycopene level was tested at the start of the study and they were followed for an average of 12 years. Among the
men with the lowest levels of lycopene, 25 of 258 men had a stroke. Among those with the highest levels of lycopene, 11 of 259 men had a
stroke. When researchers looked at just strokes due to blood clots, the results were even stronger. Those with the highest levels of lycopene
were 59 percent less likely to have a stroke than those with the lowest levels.
This study adds to the evidence that a diet high in fruits and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of stroke. The results support
the recommendation that if people get more than five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, there is a likelihood of a major reduction in the
number of strokes worldwide.
The study also looked at blood levels of the antioxidants alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, alpha-tocopherol and retinol, but found no
association between the blood levels and risk of stroke.
Source: Serum lycopene decreases the risk of stroke in men -A population-based follow-up study. Jouni Karppi, PhD, Jari A. Laukkanen, MD, PhD, Neurology
October 9, 2012 79:1540-1547.
Global NewsTangy Tomatoes
Dept. of Community Health Nursing observed World Diabetes Day conducting a rally to create awareness on Diabetes at Anaikattuchery and Soranchery on
th14 Nov.
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Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provide clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after the Earth was formed.
During the formation of the Earth, molten iron sank to its center to make the core. This took with it the vast majority of the planet's precious metals – such as gold and platinum. In fact, there are enough precious metals in the core to cover the entire surface of the Earth with a four meter thick layer. It has previously been argued that these serendipitous over-abundance results from a cataclysmic meteorite shower that hit the Earth after the core formed. The full load of meteorite gold was thus added to the mantle alone and not lost to the deep interior.
To test this theory, Dr. Matthias Willbold and Professor Tim Elliott of the Bristol Isotope Group in the School of Earth Sciences analyzed rocks from Greenland that are nearly four billion years old, collected by Professor Stephen Moorbath of the University of Oxford. These ancient rocks provide a unique window into the composition of our planet shortly after the formation of the core but before the proposed meteorite bombardment.
The researchers determined the tungsten isotopic composition of these rocks. Tungsten (W) is a very rare element (one gram of rock contains only about one ten-millionth of a gram of tungsten) and, like gold and other precious elements, it should have entered the core when it formed. Like most elements, tungsten is comprised of several isotopes, atoms with the same chemical characteristics but slightly different masses. Isotopes provide robust fingerprints of the origin of material and the addition of meteorites to the Earth would leave a diagnostic mark on its W isotope composition.
Dr. Willbold observed a 15 parts per million decreases in the relative abundance of the isotope 182W between the Greenland and modern day rocks. This small but significant change is in excellent agreement with that required to explain the excess of accessible gold on Earth as the fortunate by-product of meteorite bombardment.
The impacting meteorites were stirred into the Earth's mantle by gigantic convection processes. A tantalizing target for future work is to study how long this process took. Subsequently, geological processes formed the continents and concentrated the precious metals (and tungsten) in ore deposits which are mined today.
Dr. Willbold continued: “Our work shows that most of the precious metals on which our economies and many key industrial processes are based have been added to our planet by lucky coincidence when the Earth was hit by about 20 billion billion tonnes of asteroidal material.”
Source: Matthias Willbold, Tim Elliott & Stephen Moorbath Nature 477, 195–198 (08 September 2011)
Believe it or NotMeteorites Pummeled Earth, Delivering Gold
Before we pursue the subject of biological explanations for mind, consciousness and the soul, it would be refreshing to take a brief de tour and consider the work and contributions of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, one of the greatest names in neuroscience. Cajal's Textura (Textura del sistema nervioso del hombre y de los vertebrados: 1899 -1904) in which he propounded the ‘neuron doctrine’ is considered amongst the greatest scientific books in science along with Galileo's Dialogo, Newton's Principia, and Darwin's Origin of Species.
The neuron doctrine established the idea that neurons serve as the functional signaling units of the nervous system and that they bond to each other in clearly defined ways. Anatomists of the nineteenth century were puzzled by the bizarre shape of the neurons and by their seemingly endless extensions and interdigitations. It was held by many that the cytoplasm of adjacent cells was continuous at their points of contact and formed a reticular net or syncytium. Studying sections of brains stained by silver nitrate, a technique developed by the Italian biologist Camillo Golgi, Cajal ascertained that neurons are discrete cells and that they communicate with one another only at specialized regions that are characterized by tiny discontinuities. Sir Charles Sherrington was to name these discontinuities later ‘synapses.’ This was an important insight and helped to establish the principle of dynamic polarization which posits that electrical signaling within neurons is unidirectional. Cajal went on to suggest that these connections are capable of development and reinforcement (plasticity) in various parts of the brain in use, thus substantiating the information-processing and integrating functions of neural systems.
In his Nobel Lecture (1906) titled ‘The structure and connexions of neurons’ Cajal affirmed how his studies could confirm that the nerve elements possess reciprocal relationships in contiguity but not in continuity. He stated: “It is confirmed also that those more or less intimate contacts are always established, not between the nerve arborizations alone, but between these ramifications on the one hand, and the body and protoplasmic processes on the other.”
It would be correct to say that each neuron therefore recapitulates, as it were, the integrative action of the brain in an elementary way.
Prof. S. Rangaswami,Professor of Eminence in Medical Education, SRU.
(will be continued…)
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Ms. S. JayarajiniAsst. Prof., Optometry
Mr. Pramodh MahendranI yr., MBBS
Sketch by Mr. K. Vijaya Kumar, II yr. M.Sc., Anatomy
Your CornerWhat’s up?
ndThe 22 Bridges Monthly Book Review was held on 05.12.'12
Book : Udayar
Author : Shri. Balakumaran
Reviewed by : Prof. N. Venkatesh, Principal, Faculty of Physiotherapy
Forthcoming Bridges Monthly Book Review
Jan. 2013 – Fish by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul & John Christensen
To be reviewed by Ms. D. Sony, Final yr., M.B.A.
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