PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
11th April, 2019
I wish all the members a fruitful 2019. The society is growing slowly and steadily and it is the need of the day that we Indian Renal and Transplant Pathologists should identify the need of our Indian colleagues in Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation and should help them in timely diagnosis of various diseases and injuries observed in patients of this part of the globe. This will enhance their clinical proficiency. One of the examples I would like to cite is IgM nephropathy which typically affects patients of India and central Asia. The main problem with this entity is that 70% to 75% of patients become steroid dependent/ resistant and eventually progress to chronic kidney disease of advancing stages. We need to address to this problem unanimously.
It is also the time to look at the calendar of 2019. After the 13th annual conference of our society at Kolkata planned and executed to perfection by Dr. Sudipto Roy in 2018, Dr. Manoj Jain and Dr. Vinita Agarwal have prepared an exciting academic program at SGPGI, Lucknow from 11th to 13th October 2019 just after Dussehra. Experts in the field like Ian Roberts from Oxford, Helen Liapis from Washington University School of Medicine, Ingeborg Bajema from Leiden University, and Joseph Gaut from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis along with our old mentor and friend Prof. Surya Seshan from Cornell, NY are invited faculty for the event.
Please keep your calender reserved for pre-Diwali academic event at Lucknow and youngsters need to participate actively in this event by contributing in the form of abstracts. These can be prepared with the help and guidance from their mentors.
With warm regards,
Aruna Vanikar, MD, PhD, FICPath, DLitt,
Professor and Head, Dept. of Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology, and
Professor, Dept. of Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, G.R.Doshi and K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC)-
Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS), Civil hospital campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad 380016, Gujarat, India
Tel: +91 79 22687387
11th April, 2019
I wish all the members a fruitful 2019. The society is growing slowly and steadily and it is the need of the day that we Indian Renal and Transplant Pathologists should identify the need of our Indian colleagues in Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation and should help them in timely diagnosis of various diseases and injuries observed in patients of this part of the globe. This will enhance their clinical proficiency. One of the examples I would like to cite is IgM nephropathy which typically affects patients of India and central Asia. The main problem with this entity is that 70% to 75% of patients become steroid dependent/ resistant and eventually progress to chronic kidney disease of advancing stages. We need to address to this problem unanimously.
It is also the time to look at the calendar of 2019. After the 13th annual conference of our society at Kolkata planned and executed to perfection by Dr. Sudipto Roy in 2018, Dr. Manoj Jain and Dr. Vinita Agarwal have prepared an exciting academic program at SGPGI, Lucknow from 11th to 13th October 2019 just after Dussehra. Experts in the field like Ian Roberts from Oxford, Helen Liapis from Washington University School of Medicine, Ingeborg Bajema from Leiden University, and Joseph Gaut from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis along with our old mentor and friend Prof. Surya Seshan from Cornell, NY are invited faculty for the event.
Please keep your calender reserved for pre-Diwali academic event at Lucknow and youngsters need to participate actively in this event by contributing in the form of abstracts. These can be prepared with the help and guidance from their mentors.
With warm regards,
Aruna Vanikar, MD, PhD, FICPath, DLitt,
Professor and Head, Dept. of Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology, and
Professor, Dept. of Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, G.R.Doshi and K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC)-
Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS), Civil hospital campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad 380016, Gujarat, India
Tel: +91 79 22687387