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Provisional Scientific Programme (APICON-2015)
Day 1 : Friday, 20th February 2015 • Hall A
8:30-9:00
Inauguration of Scientific Programme
9:00-9:30
Guest Lecture
Emergency Public Health
Bobby Kapur, US
9:30-10:00
Netaji Oration
Vitamin D Deficiency and Lifestyle Disease - Relations and Solution
P.K. Sasidharan
10:00-10:30
Prof. Rathinavelu Subramaniam Endowment Oration – 2015
Evolution of treatment of AMI over 100 years - post Herrick Era
V.K.Shah
10:30-11:00
Glycaemic Variability - What’s New?
Shashank Joshi
11:00-11:30
Key Note Address
Current Perspectives in Management of Chronic Pancreatitis
Nageshwar Reddy
11:30-12:00
Presidential Oration
Rajesh Upadhyay
12:00-12:30
Guest Lecture
MDR Tuberculosis
M.A. Jalil Chowdhury, Bangladesh
Guest Lecture
Early Diagnosis and Screening for Cancer - Current Guidelines
Sanjay R Jain, US
1:00-1:25
Treatment of RA - The best gets better
Rohini Handa
1:25-1:50
Ankylosing Spondylitis: Treatment Recommendation 2015
Ved Chaturvedi
1:50-2:30
Debate
Multi Vessel CAD - CABG vs PTCA
O P Yadav & Mullasari Ajith
2:30-3:10
Symposium - Vertigo
Michael Strupp, Germany
3:10-3:35
Honour Lecture
Acute Liver Failure in India
S.K. Acharya
Symposium - Chronic Viral Hepatitis
Hepatitis B Management
Hepatitis C - suspect , detect and treat
A.C. Anand
Y.K. Chawla
Symposium - Cardiology
Pulmonary Embolism - How best to manage?
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Role of heart rate reduction in management of stable angina and heart failure patients
Lekha Pathak
G.S. Wander
Martin Cowie
12:30-1:00
3:35-4:30
4:30-5:45
Day 1 : Friday, 20th February 2015 • Hall B
Tropical Diseases - Update
Vivax Malaria - Not Benign Anymore
Zoonosis - Threat to Mankind
Arbo-Viral Diseases in India
Snake Bite: A Neglected Tropical Disease in India
Ebola Virus Infection
Ashish Bhalla
P S Karmakar
Bibhuti Saha
Nagesh Kalenahalli
S. Anuradha
10:40-11:05
Hypertension in Elderly- issues and challenges
Sandhya Kamath
11:05-11:30
Chiral Molecules for Hypertension - From Bench to Bedside: Clinical Implications
C. Venkata S. Ram
11:30-12:00
Presidential Oration
Rajesh Upadhyay
12:00-1:00
Symposium - Hepatology
NAFLD
Hepatic Encephalopathy
Liver Abscess
Ajay Duseja
Kaushal Madan
Mamun Al Mahtab, Bangladesh
Guest Lecture
Space Medicine: Benefits for Medicine on Earth
Rupert Gerzer, Germany
9:00-10:40
1:00-1:25
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Thyroid Symposium
Are patients with primary hypothyroidism in India receiving appropriate thyroxine replacement?
Thyroid Disorders in perspective to Diabetes and CVD
Subclinical Hypothyroidism - To Treat or Not to Treat?
Hyperthyroidism : Advances in Management
Mala Dharmalingam
S.K. Singh
Bipin Sethi
S.K. Wagnoo
Hypertension Update
Diuretics in hypertension - an update
Rational combination therapy for hypertension
New vistas in management of hypertension
Management of Hypertension : Should Beta-Blockers be on the shelf
Hypertension in Young
Management of hypertensive urgencies and emergencies
Amal Kumar Banerjee
A. Muruganathan
Rajeev Agarwala
Santanu Guha
B.R. Bansode
Jagdish Hiremath
4:30-4:50
Changing Cholesterol Guidelines : Patient Centric Approach & Indian Perspective
S.N. Narasingan
4:50-5:10
Burden of Complication of Type 2 DM in India The Changing Profile
Sidhartha Das
5:10-5:55
Healthcare Issues
Globalisation of Healthcare
Patient Safety
Medical Preparedness for Nuclear Holocaust
Vitull K Gupta
Ambika Mohanty
A.S. Mohan
1:30-2:30
2:30-4:30
Day 1 : Friday, 20th February 2015 • Hall C
Symposium - Infectious Arthropathy
Chikungunya Arthritis
Brucella Arthritis: Are we missing this?
Rheumatological manifestations of HIV
Gumdal Narasimulu
Yojana Gokhale
Dipanjan Bandyopadhyay
Symposium - Respiratory Disease
Pneumonia - Rational choice of antibiotics
Asthma–Current guidelines for out patient treatment
COPD- Current Guidelines for treatment
COPD- Non Pharmacological Treatment
Role of Triamcinolone in steroid responsive conditions
Geetha Thirumalnesan
S. K. Chhabra
Brigadier Vasu Vardhan
Raj Kumar
Deepak Talwar
11:30-12:00
Presidential Oration
Rajesh Upadhyay
12:00-1:20
Nephrology Update
Complicated UTI - Judicious Management
CAPD - For Indian patients - Is it a viable option?
Renal transplantation-newer insights
Newer Therapies for Polycystic Kidney Disease
PP Varma
Tarun Jeloka
Vijay Kher
Soumita Bagchi
Symposium - Critical Care
Electrolyte alerts in ICU
Haemodynamic monitoring in ICU
Nutrition in critical care
Sanjay Pandya
Charu Jani
Ashit Bhagwati
2:20-4:50
AMI & ACS Case Based Symposium
Praveen Chandra
4:50-5:50
Symposium - Art of Medicine
Art of writing a good prescription
Clinical judgement vs technology - bridging the gap
Dealing with Psycho-somatic Disorders in Clinical Practice
The Art and Science of Sexual Fitness
Surendra Daga
Shibendu Ghosh
Tilak V G K Komakula
Deepak Jumani
9:00-9:45
9:45-11:25
1:20-2:20
Day 1 : Friday, 20th February 2015 • Hall D
9:00-10:20
Symposium - Diabetes
Salivary Diagnostics in Diabetes
Type I diabetes- Journey of life from childhood to parenthood
Infections in Diabetes
Diabetes in elderly
P.V. Rao
A.K. Jhingan
Krishna Prasanthi
Apurba Mukherjee
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Symposium - Geriatrics
Implications of Polypharmacy in Senior citizens
Frailty in elderly - assessment and clinical signficance
Encephalopathy in elderly
A.R. Vijayakumar
Jyotirmoy Pal
Vikas Loomba
11:30-12:00
Presidential Oration
Rajesh Upadhyay
12:00-1:20
Oncology Update
New treatment strategies in Chronic Lymphatic Leukaemia
Lymphoma management in 2015
Multiple Myeloma : Current treatment Paradigm
Metabolic emergencies in oncology
Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) - Breakthrough of the decade
Mathew Thomas
P. Mishra
Ajay Sharma
Madhuchanda Kar
Dharma Choudhary
Symposium - Endocrinology
Endocrine testing
Sub clinical hypocortisolism
SIADH - approach and management
Manash P. Baruah
Uttam Pal
Vijay Achari
Symposium - Nutrition
Diabetogenecity of Indian Diet: How True?
Brown Fat in Health and Disease
Cooking Oils: Which and How to Choose?
Dietary recommendations for Nephrolithiasis
N.K. Singh
Soumitra Ghosh
Sonia Arora
Mohanjeet Kaur
Clinics in Haematology
Interpretation of CBC
Current guidelines in febrile neutropenia
Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Parenteral Iron Therapy - When to use?
Macrophage Activation Syndrome
R.R Singh
Randeep Singh
Satyabrata Ganguly
Ramesh Dargad
Tarun Dutta
Symposium - Physicians Health
Stress management by Yoga
Easy life for busy doctors
Modern Life style and sexual dysfunction
Sandeep Rai
Mohit Gupta
B.Ramachandra Reddy
10:20:-11:20
1:20-2:20
2:20-3:20
3:20-5:00
5:00-6:00
Day 2 : Saturday, 21st February 2015 • Hall A
Dr.G.S.Sainani Oration
Management of Metastatic Breast Cancer - Recent Advances
Vineet Talwar
Dr.P.J.Mehta Oration
Thrombocytopenia in Intensive Care Unit Patients
Sudhir Mehta
Honour Lecture
Healthcare Tsunami in India
Devi Shetty
10:30-11:00
Ethics in Medical Practice
Ajay Kumar
11:00-11:30
Postgraduate Education in India - Current Scenario and Future Directions
Ved Prakash Mishra
11:30-11:45
11:45-11:55
11:55-12:05
12:05-12:10
12:10-12:20
12:20-12:30
12:30-12:35
12:35-12:55
12:55-1:00
Pleanary Session - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, UK
Role of the College in Education and CPD
Diabetes - The Ticking Bomb
Novel Agents in Managing Diabetes
Discussion
Management of ACS-Drug and Intervention
Management of stable CHD-Drugs and Intervention
Discussion
Optimising Heart Failure Management
Discussion
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
1:00-2:00
Symposium - Obesity
A Physicians Approach to Management of Obesity
Pharmacotherapy for obesity management
Bariatric Surgery - effective management of obesity and metabolic syndrome
Frank Dunn, President RCPSG
Miles Fisher
Miles Fisher
Robin Northcote
Robin Northcote
Jack Taylor
Jayant Panda
Banshi Saboo
Pradeep Chaubey
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2:00-3:00
3:00-4:00
4:00-5:00
5:00-6:00
Symposium - Gastroenterology
GERD - management in 2015
Management of Ascites
Hepatic manifestation of systemic disease
Symposium - Respiratory
Sarcoidosis – challenges in diagnosis and treatment
Opportunistic Pulmonary Infections in Immune Compromised Hosts – Challenges in Diagnosis
and Management
Interstitial Lung disease – Approach to diagnosis and management
Diabetes Update
New WHO recommendation to diagnose Gestational Diabetes Mellitus – India’s contribution
Genomics of Maturity Onset Diabetes of Young and Neonatal Diabetes
Gliptins in India - lessons learnt in last 7 years
Communication for Physicians
Breaking Bad News
Managing Difficult Patient/Relatives
How to use digital media and medical information in clinical practice
Medicine and Media
V.G. Mohan
Deepak Amarapurkar
S.P. Misra
Maneesh Bhargava, USA
G.C. Khilnani
J.C. Suri
V. Seshiah
V. Mohan
Samar Banerjee
G.N. Ramesh
S.K. Tyagi
Denise Basedow
Anil Chaturvedi
Day 2 : Saturday, 21st February 2015 • Hall B
8:30-9:00
Dr. Coelho Memorial Lectureship in Experimental Medicine (2015)
Insulin Resistance or Secretory Defect: which is more important in Indians?
Ranjit Unnikrishnan
9:00-11:00
Symposium - Cardiology
Indian Imaging Guidelines on Nuclear Cardiology Procedures
ST Elevation MI : How to Improve Survival?
Is Tenecteplase the First Aid Therapy for STEMI in India?
Management of Coronary Microvascular Disease
Very late complication of coronary stent
Diastolic Heart Failure -Myths and realities
Mythri Shankar
V.K. Bahl
Tiny Nair
S.R. Mittal
Mantosh Panja
S.N. Arya
11:00-12:20
12:20-12:50
12:50 - 1:50
1:50-2:20
2:20-3:40
3:40-4:40
4:40-6:00
Symposium - Lipids
Insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia and PPAR – Indian perspective
Residual risk & importance of Non HDL-C in managing CV risk in Diabetes
Symposium - Make in India
Saroglitazar & Management of dyslipidaemia in diabetes: one & half year of clinical experience
Hydroxychloroquine in Type 2 Diabetes
Sudhir Bhandari
A.B. Chandorkar
Hemant Thacker
Nihal Thomas
Novo Nordisk Oration
Building a Brighter Future with Basal Insulins: The Blueprint of our current Understanding
Jens Sandahl Christiansen
Symposium - Rheumatology
Low back pain - Diagnosis and Management
Osteoarthiritis- Early detection and delaying degradation of joints
ANCA associated Vasculitis: Update 2015
G.P. Dureja
Jyotsna Oak
Milind Nadkar
SANOFI Aventis Lectureship in Diabetes
NAFLD: Association and Impact beyond the Liver
Sarita Bajaj
Clinics in Gastroenterology
Coeliac Disease-Suspect, Detect and Treat
IBS-Managing Brain and Gut
Constipation - A Holistic Approach
Antiplatelet, PPI and GI Bleed
Govind Makharia
Gourdas Chaudhary
Uday Ghoshal
Ajay Kumar
Symposium - Insulin
Integrating Newer Basal Insulin Therapy into Clinical Practice
Advancing Insulin Therapy - From Basal & Premix to Co-Formulation
Consensus Evidence-Based Indian Insulin Guidelines
Ambrish Mithal
Ajay Kumar
Narendra Kotwal
Symposium - Nephrology
CKD in India-magnitude and implications
Diabetic Nephropathy
Stem Cells and Renal Repair
Lupus Nephritis
S.C. Dash
Ashok Kriplani
Vivekanand Jha
Sanjay Gupta
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Day 2 : Saturday, 21st February 2015 • Hall C
9:00-10:00
10:00-11:00
11:00-12:00
12:00-1:00
Infection Update
Fever of Unknown Origin - Revisited
Malaria - Challenges and Opportunities
Recent Advances in Management of Enteric Fever
Scrub Typus - Reemerging Infection
Suresh Kumar
S.P. Sondhi
Ketan K. Mehta
M.V.S. Subbalaxmi
Clinics - Epilepsy
Phenytoin: Managing Epilepsy in India since decades
Management of Seizure in Critically ill patients
Status Epilepticus - Case Based Learning
Place of Phenobarbitone in 21st Century
C.S. Agarwal
Bhupendra Chaudhary
Rajiv Anand
Praveen Gupta
Critical Care Update
Newer guidelines for Sepsis Management
Novel Therapies in Severe Sepsis - Current Status
Acetinobacter Menace in ICU- How to Counter?
Fungal Infections in Critical Care
Mridul Daga
Rajesh Chawla
A.P. Misra
Nitin Karnik
Symposium - Pregnancy Medicine
Management of infections during pregnancy
Jaundice in pregnancy
Pregnancy and hypertension
Alaka Deshpande
P. Kar
Anupam Prakash
1:00-2:00
Diabetes - Case Based Symposium
Moderators : N.K. Soni, Sanjay Kalra, Vipin Mishra, Anuj Maheshwari, Pankaj Agarwal
2:00-3:45
Symposium - Tuberculosis
TB – Current Scenario
Newer Diagnostic Tools for TB- Impact on Management
Problems in management of TB
Controversy in DOTs Therapy
Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis
CNS Tuberculosis : A Challenge in India
Intestinal tuberculosis
Myocardial tuberculosis
3:45-4:30
4:30-5:30
5:30-6:00
Rohit Sarin
Agam Vora
S.K. Katiyar
Udas Ghosh
R.K. Garg
Rakesh Kochhar
C. Narasimhan
Common Problems - Difficult to Treat
Recurrent mouth ulcers
Muscle Cramps
Hiccups
Rajiv Khosla
Sanjiv Maheshwari
Surinder Rana
Neurology Update
Recent advances in acute ischaemic stroke management
Stem cell therapy - Role in brain stroke
Management of Parkinson’s Disease – An Update
Managing Migraine Headache
Vinit Suri
M.V. Padma
Madhuri Behari
Debashish Chowdhury
Symposium Haematology
Current guidelines for management of haemophilia
Blood Component Therapy
Usha Sekkizhar
P.S. Ghalaut
Day 2 : Saturday, 21st February 2015 • Hall D
9:00-10:00
10:00-11:00
Nephrology Update
Renal disease in pregnancy
Management of Type 2 DM in Chronic Kidney Disease
Rituximab in Renal Disorders
Manisha Sahay
Anil Virmani
Dinesh Khullar
Symposium - Cardiac Rhythm
Atrial Fibrillation : Optimising Rhythm and Output
ECG approach to slow pulse
Heart Rate Reduction to Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes
Ulhas Pandurnagi
M. Chenniappan
Sandeep Bansal
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12:20-1:35
1:35-2:35
Symposium Rheumatology
Biosimilars in RA: Sooner than later
Pulmonary Hypertension: The silent killer in Rheumatic Diseases
Lupus – the challenges of the disease
Immunological Markers in Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases
U.R.K. Rao
Shefali Khanna Sharma
Liyakat Gauri
Ajai Kumar Garg
5 Common Mistakes in Clinical Practice
Diabetes
Hypertension
Gastroenterology
Neurology
Cardiology
S.V. Madhu
Kamlesh Tewary
V.K. Gupta
K.S. Anand
Rakesh Gupta
Symposium - Nutrition
Guidelines for nutritional therapy, cirrhosis & CKD patients
Low fat diet - How low.
Blended Edible Oils Indian Perspective
Shilpa Joshi
Y. Bhasker
Sudhakar Mhaskar
Madhuchanda Kar/
Prantar Chakrabarti
2:35-3:20
CPC
3:30-4:50
Symposium - Respiratory
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule - Best approach to diagnosis
Hepatic Hydrothorax
Malignant pleural effusion- Approach to management
Lung Cancer - Overview of Treatment
Amit Dhamija
Prabhash Bhattacharyya
Rajiv Goyal
Ritesh Aggarwal
Symposium - HIV
National ART guidelines
Associassion of HIV with Kala-Azar co-infection in North Bihar
Prevention and management of Needle stick Injury
Sanjeev Sinha
T.K. Jha
Alok Vashishtha
5:00-6:00
Day 3 : Sunday, 22nd February 2015 • Hall A
9:00-9:20
HIV cure - reality or myth
B.B. Rewari
9:20-9:40
ICU infections in India- An overview
S. Arulrhaj
9:40-10:00
Contrast and Kidney - How to Balance it?
N.P. Singh
10:00-10:20
Endocrine Hypertension
O.P. Kalra
10:20-10:40
STEMI: Bridging the Gap between Interventionist & Physician
D.S. Gambhir
10:40-11:00
Dr. V Parameshvara Life Time Achievement Award
Diabetes mellitus is a vasculopathy - not lone endocrinopathy
Rajeev Chawla
11:00-11:20
Post Menopausal Osteoporosis
Anil Mahajan
11:20-11:40
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation- an update
Velu Nair
11:40-12:00
Variations in Therapeutic Efficacy of Different Formulations of the Same Drug
Ketan Patel
12:00-1:30
API Award Papers
1:30-2:00
Validictory Function
Day 3 : Sunday, 22nd February 2015 • Hall B
9:00-10:00
10:00-11:15
Symposium - Gastroenterology
Extrahepatic manifestations of chronic Hepatitis C virus Infection
Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency: An overlooked complication of Diabetes
Hepato Protectives in Fatty Liver Disease
Microbiota, probiotics and chronic diseases
Gurinder Mohan
Rupjyoti Talukdar
Rajesh Puri
Ruby Sound
Diabetes Update
What After Metformin ? Role of Sulphonylureas as Second Line Therapy
When Basal insulin is not enough - What next in T2DM?
Combine & Conquer : Managing Type 2 diabetes with Triple drug OHA combinations
Optimising Foot care in Diabetics
Diabetes and Tuberculosis
Sujeet Jha
A.G. Unikrishnan
Surender Kumar
Vijay Vishwanathan
V. Palaniappen
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12:00-1:00
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Newer Diagnostics
HRCT - increasing role in diagnosis of Pulmonary Diseases
Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) - New tool for Mediastinal lesions
Medical Thoracoscopy- A revolution in diagnosis of pleural diseases
Rajesh Gothi
Pattabhi Raman Vallandramam
Dharmesh Patel
Symposium - Preventive Medicine
Adult Vaccination
Influenza: Prevention is better than cure
Pneumococcal Vaccination
Smokeless Tobacco and CVD
Y.S. Raju
Vivek Nangia
Subramaniam Swaminathan
R.M. Chabbra
Day 3 : Sunday, 22nd February 2015 • Hall C
9:00-9:45
9:50-10:50
10:55-11:40
11:40-1.00
Symposium - Rheumatology
Treatment for rheumatic disorders: moving beyond biologics?
Sicca Syndrome- the sinister by-stander
Rheumatological emergencies
Shankar Subramanian
Rathindra Nath Sarkar
Alakendu Ghosh
Symposium - Imaging - Must Know for Physicians
Utility of conventional X-ray in modern era
Newer vistas in ultrasound
Role of CT in abdominal lesions
Recent advances in MRI
Veena Choudhary
Navin Kalra
Praveen Gulati
Arundeep Arora
Symposium - Lipidology
Is triglyceridaemia a star or supporting actor
Management of dyslipidaemia intolerant to statin therapy
Management of diabetic dyslipidaemia
Gursaran Sidhu
Ananda Bagchi
Arvind Gupta
Symposium - Neurology
Insomnia: Importance of early diagnosis
Dizziness - Diagnosis & Management
Neuroplasticity – Past, Present and Future
Understanding Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
Early recognition of Dementia - Detection and benefits
Samir Parikh
Ajit Verma
V.N. Mishra
Swaroop Abhimanyoo Pawar, US
Anup Bhattacharya
Day 3 : Sunday, 22nd February 2015 • Hall D
9:00-10:00
10:00-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
11:30-12:15
Symposium - Infections
Distribution of HIV-1 Co-Receptor Tropism Amongst Clade C HIV-1 Infected Individuals in India
Management of HIV/HBV co-infection
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome(IRIS)
Anti-microbial resistance - A global threat
Amar Pazare
S.K. Guha
Manoharan
Mangesh Tiwaskar
Session - Clinical Approach
Anaemia
Quadriplegia
Galactorrhoea
Unknown Poisoning
N.S. Verma
S.V. Ramanamurty
Dinesh Dhanwal
Omender Singh
Therapeutics
Newer Therapeutic Intervention in Geriatrics
Rational Use of NSAID’s
Sandeep Tamane
M.P.S. Chawla
Metabolic
Malnutrition to Metabolic syndrome--the transition in rural India
Hyperuricaemia, diabetes & metabolic syndrome: intricacy in between
H. Basavana Gowdappa
Arup Kumar Kundu
Potpourri
Aplastic Anemia
Heart Failure with Reserve Ejection Fraction - What is the Way Forward?
Ocular effects of common systemic conditions
Rajneesh Kapoor
Kapil Midha