REPORT OF THE INLAND
FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE 2006 – 2007
Since taking over the Inland Fellowship Committee
Chair, I have strived to bring complete transparency
and democracy to the system of selection of fellows.
During my tenure a rapid spurt in the growth of
fellowships has occurred. From taking over mainly
the J & J / Robert Roaf fellowship, we have
had addition of the Dr. S.S. Babhulkar, the Dr.
G.S. Kulkarni and the IOA – WOC- SICOT fellowships.
Also added on are the IOA-Panacea Biotec and the
INOR Research Grant awards and the Dr. Ashoke
Sengupta Visiting Professorship. The Inland Fellowship
office now looks like a real office with a lot
of correspondence being exchanged with the applicants,
selected fellows and the Inland fellowship committee!
The process of getting completion reports from
the fellows has also been streamlined.
Also these years have witnessed
enhancement of the J & J fellowship grant
by Johnson & Johnson to Rs. 50000/- making
air travel possible on long laps of this fellowship.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
/ ROBERT ROAF TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP
The selected fellows for this
year were : Dr. Vinod Kumar, Dr. Lalit Maini and
Dr. Sandeep Singh all from Delhi and Dr. Nitin
Buddhadev of Morbi, Gujarat who was the Robert
Roaf fellow.
They started their travel with
the IOACON at Delhi and successively visited Chandigarh,
Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkatta before
returning to their home towns. All arrangements
had been made for their smooth travel and visit
to these centres. From their communications to
me, they have had an exciting and rewarding trip
and we await their detailed report. I thank the
fellowship coordinators at different centres for
having taken on the responsibility for making
all arrangements for the fellows. The fellows
completed their fellowship on the 9th Dec. 2006
at Kolkatta.
DR. S.S. BABHULKAR FELLOWSHIP
Dr. Narayana Acharya of Dharwad
is this year’s Dr. Babhulkar fellow. He
has commenced his fellowship with Dr. Sajan Hegde
at Chennai.
Dr. Rajesh Tembhurnikar of Bilaspur,
the Dr. Babhulkar fellow for 2005, completed his
fellowship with Dr. Vinod Tiwari.
DR. G.S. KULKARNI FELLOWSHIP
This years selected fellow is
Dr. Manish Dhawan of Delhi. He is visiting Dr.
G.S. Kulkarni for 4 weeks.
Dr. Amit Agarwal, the 2005 Dr.
G.S. Kulkarni Fellow, visited Dr. G.S. Kulkarni
in May 2006 for 4 weeks at Miraj.
THE IOA –WOC –
SICOT FELLOWSHIP
The following have been awarded
the above fellowship for this year :
Dr. Gowerdhan Ingale, Pune
Dr. O.P. Lakhwani, Gwalior
Dr. Jagdish Menon, Pondicherry
Dr. Gaurav Govil, Noida
Dr. Satish Sonar, Mumbai
Dr. Ingale has commenced his
fellowship with me in Mumbai.
For 2005 – 2006, completion reports were
received from the following:
Dr. Anoop Jhurani, Jaipur who worked at Tata Memorial
Hospital, Mumbai with Dr. Manish Agarwal and Dr.
Ajay Puri for 3 weeks in Feb. 2006
Dr. Biren Nadkarni of Delhi completed his fellowship
with Dr. Shekhar Agarwal at Sant Parmanand Hospital,
Delhi by spending 6 weeks with him in Feb.- Mar.
2006.
Dr. Anil Agarwal of Delhi completed his fellowship
with Prof. Anil Dhal of Maulana Azad Medical College,
Delhi in Oct.-Nov 2006 and Dr. Rajesh Lalchandani
also of Delhi, is pursuing this with Prof. P.P.
Kotwal of AIIMS.
THE IOA – PANACEA BIOTEC RESEARCH
AWARD AND THE INOR RESEARCH GRANT
The IOA Panacea Biotec Research
Grant has not been awarded this year due to lack
of suitable applicants. Dr. Nishant Jain of Delhi
has been awarded the INOR Research Grant Awardfor
his project on “Development of instrumentation
for minimally invasive technique of dynamic hip
screw for intertrochanteric fracture fixation”.
.
Dr. S.K. Saraf of Varanasi,
recipient of the 2005 Panacea Biotec Research
Grant for his project on “Biomimetic Synthesis
of Collagen/ Gelatin Hydroxyapatite self assembly
as potential bone graft material”, presented
it at a special session held during the IOACON
at Delhi. Last year at the Mumbai IOACON, Dr.
Charanjeet Ajmani, INOR awardee 2003, Dr. Mohinder
Kaushal, INOR awardee 2004 and Dr. Amit Rastogi,
Pancea awardee, 2003, all presented their work
at a special session for research.
THE DR. ASHOKE SENGUPTA VISITING PROFESSORSHIP
There have been no request from
centres asking for the services of a visiting
professor. Prof. Mukesh Kalra of Delhi has applied
for the visiting professorship and his name has
been included in the panel of visiting professors.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
The marking system which has
been laid out has a ceiling for the number of
papers published or presented. Going through recent
applications, one finds that many applicants have
reached this ceiling limit and have papers in
excess of this. To be fair to them, I proposed
to the executive committee of IOA, that all papers
should be given marks and the highest scorer be
equated with the ceiling limit. The marks of the
other applicants can be expressed as percentile
of the highest scorer. This will be fair to all
concerned. This amendment has been passed at the
Delhi meeting of the executive committee.
Applications are invited for the 2007 Inland fellowships
of the IOA. The last date for applications is
31st March 2007. Please forward applications in
the prescribed format to :
Dr. Ashok N. Johari
Chairman – Inland Fellowships of IOA
Children’s Orthopaedic Centre
Bobby Apts., Lady Jamshedji Road
Near Mahim Bazar Post Office
Mahim, Mumbai – 400 016.
Tele. No.’s : 022-24374040, 24365050
Fax: 022-24445599
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