Visiting Guests




SN Date Name of Speaker Topic
1. 14 - 15 Feb, 2017 Dr. Ashok Vellodi
Ex Consultant, Paediatrician,
Metabolic Unit,Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Foundation Trust
Management of patients with Lysosomal Storage disorders
3. 5 July, 2017 Dr. VS Negi,
Professor and Head, Department of Clinical Immunology, JIPMER, Puducherry
SS Agarwal Memorial Lecture on "Genetics of Autoimmune Diseases"
7. 20 - 25 Nov, 2017 Novel Therapeutic Strategies in Molecular Era
8. 28 Nov - 6 Dec, 2017 Dr. Ashok Vellodi
Ex Consultant, Paediatrician,Metabolic Unit,
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children,
NHS Foundation Trust
Management of patients with Lysosomal Storage disorders
9. 2 Feb, 2018 Dr. Louis Aledort,
Professor,Medicine,
Hematology and Medical Oncology
Management of Inhibitors in Hemophilia
10. 7 Feb, 2018 Dr. John C. Carey,
MD, MPH,
Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah
Editor - American Journal of Medical Genetics for 16 years till 2017
  1. The natural history of genetic disorders: The centre piece of the 'central dogma' of clinical genetics
  2. Clinical Evidence for teratogenicity
  3. Genetics of cleft palate
  4. Demystifying Publication in the Medical Science Literature
11. 30 - 31 March, 2018
  • Dr Shah Alam Khan,
    Professor, Department of Orthopedics, AIIMS, New Delhi

  • Dr. Ashwin Dalal,
    Head, Diagnostics Division
    Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad

  • Dr Hitesh Shah,
    Professor, Department of Orthopedics,
    Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal

  • Dr Girisha KM,
    Professor and Head, Department of Medical Genetics,
    Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal

Scientific session on "Osteogenesis Imperfecta and other skeletal dysplasias"

Evaluation and management of knee problems in children

Missed Opportunities in Gene Hunting - My Experiences

Orthopedic management of skeletal dysplasia

Exome sequencing in skeletal dysplasia: Illustrative cases
12 5th July, 18 Dr Giriraj R Chandak, Senior Scientist, CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad Genotype to Phenotype through Epigenotype: Gene-Nutrition Interaction in Diabesity
13 5th July, 18 Dr Giriraj R Chandak, Senior Scientist, CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad SS Agarwal Memorial Lecture, "Simple to Complex Genetic Disorders: An Enchanting journey between Bed and Bench"
14 27 July, 2018 Dr Sam Balu, Ph D, Manager, Scientific affairs, MedGenome Labs, Banglore Benefits of NGS Based Testing in Feto-Maternal Medicine.
15 31st July, 2018 Dr. Joan Keutzer Overview of LSDs and Diagnostics in Lysosomal storage disorders: Present status and future trends
16 1 May, 2019 Dr. Rajeev Agarwal, Plastic Surgeon Craniosynostosis
17 5 July, 2019 Dr. Rashid Merchant, Consultant, Nanavati Superspeciality Hospital, Mumbai
Former Dean and Professor, Former Director of Pediatrics/ Perinatal HIV Program,
BJ Wadia Children's Hospital, Mumbai, India
Recurrent Infections in children (When to suspect Immune Dysfunction)