Resume
I work as a clinician, researcher, and dedicated teacher affiliated to the oldest rheumatology training institute and tertiary care centre in Lucknow, India. I am a Social Media Editor at the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, Rheumatology (Oxford), Rheumatology Advances in Practice, and Indian Journal of Rheumatology. I also serve as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases and an Editorial Board Member of several general medical journals. Besides, I act as an ad hoc reviewer for several Indian, Mediterranean, Arabic, and Latin American journals. Last year, I was bestowed the Publons top peer reviewer award for clinical sciences and cross-speciality. I feel grateful for being blessed with a successful academic career with more than 100 indexed publications, numerous awards, travel fellowships, and gold medals.
Besides enjoying medical teaching (mentored numerous conference proceedings, travel fellowships, and research grants) and research in academic interest areas, i.e. inflammatory myositis, spondyloarthritis, and technology in science, I enjoy photography, poetry, cycling, travelling, and photo painting.
My researcher career (mentors, path, and main achievements) I received my undergraduate medical training at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, followed by post- graduate studies in medicine at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi. Following this, I joined the current department in 2013, and spent four years as a senior resident, followed by a brief training at the Nuffield Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, and later at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Subsequently, in 2017, I worked in the department as an APLAR Research .
Fellow as part of a competitive fellowship grant. After that, in 2018, I visited the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, following which I joined the department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at SGPGI as faculty.
Apart from running the myositis clinic, I have secured extramural and well as intramural funding for various ongoing projects on this rare disease. Besides entering collaborations with European and American counterparts working on myositis, my efforts were seminal in setting up Myositis India, a patient support group. Recently, I organised the first focussed myositis meeting, the myoIN summit, a semi-virtual (hybrid) event in Lucknow. Last year, I passed a training course in laboratory methods for testing rare autoantibodies at the University of Bath, UK. I also serve as the scientific committee member for the IMACS (International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies Group), an international scientific organisation working on myositis.