RESULTS: BMESI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL ELECTION 2019

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Esteemed members of the BMESI, Greetings!

As per the approval of the present Executive Council of BMESI, I am happy to announce the result to various positions in the Executive Council of BMESI.

President : Dr Shashi Sinha, Advisor, National Health Systems Resources Centre, NIHFW Campus, Baba

Gangnath Marg, Munirka, New Delhi

Vice President : Dr Balasubramanian B, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Sri

Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore-641022

Secretary : Dr G M Bairy, Professor and Head, Department of BME, MIT, Manipal 576104

4/18 APRIL– 2019 | Volume 1/19 http://www.bmesi.org.in

Dear Members, Greetings! Wish you Happy New Year 2019. Find here the results of BMESI Election for the various posts and other workshop, seminars, and conferences details held in sponsorship with BMESI. Thank you very much for supporting the BMESI, continuously. With Regards Editor-in-Chief ENGMEDNEWS

Contents

Result - 1 Event s - 2 One day workshop National level seminar National Conference Call for Book Chapter - 3 Message from Editor in Chief -4 Biotechnology -5 Associate ship

RESULTS: BMESI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

ELECTION 2019

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Joint Secretary : Dr Sudip Paul , Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, North-Eastern

Hill University, Shillong 793022

Treasurer (position in BMESI HQ, Manipal) : Dr Niranjana S, Associate Professor, Department of BME,

MIT, Manipal 576104

Editor in Chief, The Journal Medical and Life Science Engineering : Dr Gajanan Nagare,

Professor, Department of BME, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Vidyalankar College Marg, Wadala (East),

Mumbai - 400037

Editor in Chief of ENGMEDNEWS : Dr Shruti Jain, Associate Professor, ECE Department, Jaypee

University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Teh Kandaghat, Distt. Solan 173 234

Executive Council Members

Ms Sumana Chaterjee, Assistant Professor, Department of BME, Netaji Subhash Engineering College,

Technocity, Panchpota, Garia, Kolkata 700152, West Bengal

Dr Sathiya S, Assistant Professor, Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (Punjab) - 144 011

Mr Sarun Mani, Senior Biomedical Engineer, Adukalil, Karachal PO, Meenangadi - 673591, Wayanad, Kerala

Dr Anilkumar V Nandi, Professor, Department of ECE, B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and

Technology, Vidyanagar, HUBLI - 580 031, Karnataka

Mr R. Manickavasagam, Vice principal, HoD Department of BME, Alpha College of Engineering, No.16, 3rd

Cross Street, West C.I.T. Nagar, Chennai - 600 035, Tamil Nadu

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ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON

“SIGNIFICANCE & SCIENCE OF NEUROTHERAPY FOR HEALTH

AWARENESS AND MEMORY POWER ENHANCEMENT”

28th FEB 2019

MAHENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SALEM CAMPUS,

MINNAMPALLI, SALEM

Department of Biomedical Engineering in association with Biomedical Engineering

Society of India (BMESI) conducted One day workshop on “Significance & Science of

Neurotherapy for Health Awareness and Memory Power Enhancement” on 28.02.2019.

Around 180 students and faculty members has participated in this Workshop and made

this program a grand success.

The welcome address was given by Dr. S. Rajalaxmi, Head of the Department,

Biomedical Engineering. She welcomed the gathering by introducing about National

Science Day. She delivered the welcome address by welcoming the chief guest

Mr. M.Chandiran M.Sc.,(Yoga).,

Mr.C.Namburaj M.Sc.,(Yoga).,

Sri Dhanvanthri Narambu Vazhi Sigichai Aaraichi Maiyam & Special Child Care

Centre, Salem

Dr. N. Malmurugan, Principal,

Dr.N. Mohana Sundara Raju, Dean Academics, MCE.

Dr N. Malmurugan, Principal encouraged the gathering by his engaging words, to

know the values of nerve stimulation which is useful for many purpose other than the

memory power enhancement.

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Ms.D.Madhubala, third year student of Biomedical Engineering gave the remarkable

introduction about the importance of the program and about the Chief Guest. She

introduced about "LMNT " – Lajpatrai Mehra’s Neurotherapy, "Nadi Mardan Kriya" ,

which is an ancient Indian rehabilitative therapy based on the vedic principles &

philosophy, a natural healing therapy deals with nerves, muscles, joints and blood &

lymphatic channels. The trainers had explained many techniques to improve the

memory power and to heal the problems like headache, back pain, stomachache, nausea,

sickness and others.

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NATIONAL LEVEL SEMINAR

“COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES IN PERSONALISED MEDICINE”

DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING,

SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE

The National level Seminar on “Computational approaches in Personalized medicine”

was organized by the Department of Biomedical engineering, Sri Ramakrishna

Engineering College. Nowadays computational approaches such as AI, Pattern

Recognition, and Bioinformatics play a very important role in the medical field. This

seminar provided a platform for the students, faculty, industrialists and research

scholars to enhance their knowledge in the field of personalized medicine.

The occasion was initiated by the welcome address delivered by Dr.G.Gopu, Head of the

Department, Biomedical Engineering, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College. The

honourable chief guests for the occasion were

Mr. SubramoniamAiyappan, Project Manager, HCL

technologies, Chennai.

Dr.S.Jaganathan, Research officer ,Pasteur Institute

of India, Coonoor

Mr .P.K.Praveen Kumar, Assistant Professor,

Department of Biotechnology, Sri Venkateshwara

College of Engineering, Chennai

At the start of seminar the newsletter was released by the chief guests.

The first session was started by Mr.Subramoniam Aiyappan, the former collaboration

manager- Researcher in Sieman’s Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. His talk mainly dealt brain

data computing, cognitive science and neuroscience. Cognitive science in medicine is

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one of the major research interests and the points he quoted in this topic helped in

getting an insight of this emerging field. Brain data computing is yet another blooming

field that has potential futuristic applications in medicine. He has an experience in

working with MRI domain which helped us in gaining knowledge on fMRI, its detailed

working and applications.

Mr. P.K. Praveen Kumar delivers his talk on “Impact Computational approaches in

Personalised Medicine”. Computational methods are increasingly used in almost all

areas of biology in order to understand the complex biological systems and develop

models that generate testable predictions. He listed the various fields that has a wide

range of impact on the compact approaches that are being used in personalized

medicine. They include the cellular and DNA computing, which involves the

investigation of the computational properties of the DNA . He gave brief explanantion

on the proteomic and the genomic databases and also on the medical image acquisition

and analysis. He concluded with quoting some case studies which concentrated on the

chikungunya virus vaccine development by reverse vaccinology approach, other based

on the nipah virus.

Dr. S. Jaganathan delivered his lecture on “Techniques used in vaccine production”. He

began with the basics of vaccination followed by its importance and the various

techniques for vaccine production. He mainly focused on the rabies disease, the human

behavior when affected with rabies virus, various symptoms, and preventive measures.

He also added points on the tetanus and human papilloma virus. The entire session

moved on in a very interactive and friendly manner. It gave everyone a depth

knowledge on vaccination and the methods of producing vaccines.

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON

ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES IN BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS RESEARCH

March 28-29, 2019

Department of Biomedical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology

This conference was conducted to provide a national forum for the academicians,

researchers and industry professionals to deliberate the state of the art research

findings, discuss the recent advancements and explore the future directions in the

emerging areas of biomedical Engineering. The conference also bring together both

novel and experienced scientists and developers, to meet new colleagues, collect new

ideas and establish new cooperation between research groups and provide a platform

for researchers from academic and industry to present their original work and

exchange ideas, information, techniques and applications in the field of Biomedical

Engineering.

The chief guest for the event was

Mr. Ravi Kaushik, Group Marketing Director, Asia Pacific & Indian

Subcontinent Country Business Director.

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Judges for technical events :

Ms. Rama Venugopal, Executive Director, Value Added Corporate Services, a

corporate consultancy firm based in Chennai, South India,

Dr.Salil Choudhary, CEO Health Pod Business Incubator from Bangalore.

Workshop was conducted on “Deep learning – Medical imaging applications” by

Dr.V. Sapathagirivasan , Manager R&D, Medical Devices, Capgemini.

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CALL FOR SPRINGER BOOK CHAPTER

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Dr. Shruti Jain Associate Professor

Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan

Himachal Pradesh, India.

MESSAGE OF EDITOR –IN CHIEF

It is indeed a great honor to be the Editor in Chief of ENGMEDNEWS

of Biomedical Engineering Society of India (BMESI) and it is an

immense pleasure to launch this first edition for 2019. This Edition

includes messages, reports, articles together with events organized

in sponsorship with BMESI. I seize this opportunity to thank all

those who have submitted their contributions for this issue,

assistance and guidance of the publications committee and editorial

committee as well as the efforts put in by the team. Please feel free

to provide your feedback and send pertinent information with

photos for inclusion in our forthcoming issues. I hope you enjoy this

first issue and do let us know if there are any topics you’d like to

see covered in the future.

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Dr. Sudip Paul from North-Eastern Hill University successfully completed

Biotechnology Overseas Associate ship 2017-18

from

University of Western Australia

The Biotechnology Overseas Associate ship for the

Scientists working in North Eastern States of India:

2017-18 supported by Department of Department of

Biotechnology, Government of India was awarded to

Dr. Sudip Paul. He applied for this prestigious

fellowship to pursue his Post-Doctoral research at The

University of Western Australia, Perth under the supervision of Prof. Amitava

Datta, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The UWA. He

completed successfully his Post doctoral research on early detection of neuronal

disorders using deep learning from UWA with the accomplishment of two IEEE

Conference papers and two book chapters in Springer NATURE and Elsevier.

Dr. Sudip Paul is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Biomedical

Engineering, School of Technology, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong,

India since June 2012. He received his Ph.D degree from Indian Institute of

Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi with specialization in

Electrophysiology and brain signal analysis.

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The Editorial Team of ENGMED NEWS wishes

everyone a very

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