Provisional Scientific Programme (APICON-2015)

18 Journal of the association of physicians of india vol 63 february, 2015 Provisional Scientific Programme (APICON-2015) Day 1 : Friday, 20 th February 2015 Hall A 8:30-9:00 Inauguration of Scientific Programme 9:00-9:30 Guest Lecture Emergency Public Health 9:30-10:00 Netaji Oration Vitamin D Deficiency and Lifestyle Disease - Relations and Solution 10:00-10:30 Prof. Rathinavelu Subramaniam Endowment Oration 2015 Evolution of treatment of AMI over 100 years - post Herrick Era Bobby Kapur, US P.K. Sasidharan 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 12:00-12:30 Guest Lecture MDR Tuberculosis 12:30-1:00 Guest Lecture Early Diagnosis and Screening for Cancer - Current Guidelines M.A. Jalil Chowdhury, Bangladesh 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 3:35-4:30 Symposium - Chronic Viral Hepatitis Hepatitis B Management Hepatitis C - suspect, detect and treat 4:30-5:45 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 Day 1 : Friday, 20 th February 2015 Hall B 9:00-10:40 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 S.K. Acharya A.C. Anand Y.K. Chawla Lekha Pathak G.S. Wander Martin Cowie 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 12:00-1:00 Symposium - Hepatology NAFLD Hepatic Encephalopathy Liver Abscess 1:00-1:25 Guest Lecture Space Medicine: Benefits for Medicine on Earth Ajay Duseja Kaushal Madan Mamun Al Mahtab, Bangladesh Rupert Gerzer, Germany

Journal of the association of physicians of india vol 63 february, 2015 19 1:30-2:30 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 2:30-4:30 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 Mala Dharmalingam S.K. Singh Bipin Sethi S.K. Wagnoo 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 Day 1 : Friday, 20 th February 2015 Hall C 9:00-9:45 Symposium - Infectious Arthropathy Chikungunya Arthritis Brucella Arthritis: Are we missing this? Rheumatological manifestations of HIV 9:45-11:25 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 Vitull K Gupta Ambika Mohanty A.S. Mohan Gumdal Narasimulu Yojana Gokhale Dipanjan Bandyopadhyay Geetha Thirumalnesan S. K. Chhabra Brigadier Vasu Vardhan Raj Kumar Deepak Talwar 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 1:20-2:20 Symposium - Critical Care Electrolyte alerts in ICU Haemodynamic monitoring in ICU Nutrition in critical care PP Varma Tarun Jeloka Vijay Kher Soumita Bagchi 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 Day 1 : Friday, 20 th February 2015 Hall D Surendra Daga Shibendu Ghosh Tilak V G K Komakula Deepak Jumani 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

20 Journal of the association of physicians of india vol 63 february, 2015 10:20:-11:20 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 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 1:20-2:20 Symposium - Endocrinology Endocrine testing Sub clinical hypocortisolism SIADH - approach and management 2:20-3:20 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 3:20-5:00 Clinics in Haematology Interpretation of CBC Current guidelines in febrile neutropenia Antiphospholipid Syndrome Parenteral Iron Therapy - When to use? Macrophage Activation Syndrome 5:00-6:00 Symposium - Physicians Health Stress management by Yoga Easy life for busy doctors Modern Life style and sexual dysfunction Day 2 : Saturday, 21 st February 2015 Hall A 9:00-9:30 Dr.G.S.Sainani Oration Management of Metastatic Breast Cancer - Recent Advances 9:30-10:00 Dr.P.J.Mehta Oration Thrombocytopenia in Intensive Care Unit Patients 10:00-10:30 Honour Lecture Healthcare Tsunami in India Mathew Thomas P. Mishra Ajay Sharma Madhuchanda Kar Dharma Choudhary Manash P. Baruah Uttam Pal Vijay Achari N.K. Singh Soumitra Ghosh Sonia Arora Mohanjeet Kaur R.R Singh Randeep Singh Satyabrata Ganguly Ramesh Dargad Tarun Dutta Sandeep Rai Mohit Gupta B.Ramachandra Reddy Vineet Talwar Sudhir Mehta 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 Pleanary Session - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, UK 11:30-11:45 11:45-11:55 11:55-12:05 Role of the College in Education and CPD Diabetes - The Ticking Bomb Novel Agents in Managing Diabetes 12:05-12:10 Discussion 12:10-12:20 Management of ACS-Drug and Intervention 12:20-12:30 Management of stable CHD-Drugs and Intervention 12:30-12:35 Discussion 12:35-12:55 Optimising Heart Failure Management Jack Taylor 12:55-1:00 Discussion 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 Jayant Panda Banshi Saboo Pradeep Chaubey

Journal of the association of physicians of india vol 63 february, 2015 21 2:00-3:00 Symposium - Gastroenterology GERD - management in 2015 Management of Ascites Hepatic manifestation of systemic disease 3:00-4:00 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 4:00-5:00 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 5:00-6:00 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, 21 st 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? 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 11:00-12:20 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 12:20-12:50 Novo Nordisk Oration Building a Brighter Future with Basal Insulins: The Blueprint of our current Understanding 12:50-1:50 Symposium - Rheumatology Low back pain - Diagnosis and Management Osteoarthiritis- Early detection and delaying degradation of joints ANCA associated Vasculitis: Update 2015 1:50-2:20 SANOFI Aventis Lectureship in Diabetes NAFLD: Association and Impact beyond the Liver 2:20-3:40 Clinics in Gastroenterology Coeliac Disease-Suspect, Detect and Treat IBS-Managing Brain and Gut Constipation - A Holistic Approach Antiplatelet, PPI and GI Bleed 3:40-4:40 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 4:40-6:00 Symposium - Nephrology CKD in India-magnitude and implications Diabetic Nephropathy Stem Cells and Renal Repair Lupus Nephritis Ranjit Unnikrishnan Mythri Shankar V.K. Bahl Tiny Nair S.R. Mittal Mantosh Panja S.N. Arya Sudhir Bhandari A.B. Chandorkar Hemant Thacker Nihal Thomas Jens Sandahl Christiansen G.P. Dureja Jyotsna Oak Milind Nadkar Sarita Bajaj Govind Makharia Gourdas Chaudhary Uday Ghoshal Ajay Kumar Ambrish Mithal Ajay Kumar Narendra Kotwal S.C. Dash Ashok Kriplani Vivekanand Jha Sanjay Gupta

22 Journal of the association of physicians of india vol 63 february, 2015 Day 2 : Saturday, 21 st February 2015 Hall C 9:00-10:00 Infection Update Fever of Unknown Origin - Revisited Malaria - Challenges and Opportunities Recent Advances in Management of Enteric Fever Scrub Typus - Reemerging Infection 10:00-11:00 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 11:00-12:00 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 12:00-1:00 Symposium - Pregnancy Medicine Management of infections during pregnancy Jaundice in pregnancy Pregnancy and hypertension 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 Common Problems - Difficult to Treat Recurrent mouth ulcers Muscle Cramps Hiccups 4:30-5:30 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 5:30-6:00 Symposium Haematology Current guidelines for management of haemophilia Blood Component Therapy Suresh Kumar S.P. Sondhi Ketan K. Mehta M.V.S. Subbalaxmi C.S. Agarwal Bhupendra Chaudhary Rajiv Anand Praveen Gupta Mridul Daga Rajesh Chawla A.P. Misra Nitin Karnik Alaka Deshpande P. Kar Anupam Prakash Rohit Sarin Agam Vora S.K. Katiyar Udas Ghosh R.K. Garg Rakesh Kochhar C. Narasimhan Rajiv Khosla Sanjiv Maheshwari Surinder Rana Vinit Suri M.V. Padma Madhuri Behari Debashish Chowdhury Usha Sekkizhar P.S. Ghalaut Day 2 : Saturday, 21 st February 2015 Hall D 9:00-10:00 Nephrology Update Renal disease in pregnancy Management of Type 2 DM in Chronic Kidney Disease Rituximab in Renal Disorders 10:00-11:00 Symposium - Cardiac Rhythm Atrial Fibrillation : Optimising Rhythm and Output ECG approach to slow pulse Heart Rate Reduction to Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes Manisha Sahay Anil Virmani Dinesh Khullar Ulhas Pandurnagi M. Chenniappan Sandeep Bansal

Journal of the association of physicians of india vol 63 february, 2015 23 11:00-12:20 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 12:20-1:35 5 Common Mistakes in Clinical Practice Diabetes Hypertension Gastroenterology Neurology Cardiology 1:35-2:35 Symposium - Nutrition Guidelines for nutritional therapy, cirrhosis & CKD patients Low fat diet - How low. Blended Edible Oils Indian Perspective U.R.K. Rao Shefali Khanna Sharma Liyakat Gauri Ajai Kumar Garg S.V. Madhu Kamlesh Tewary V.K. Gupta K.S. Anand Rakesh Gupta Shilpa Joshi Y. Bhasker Sudhakar Mhaskar 2:35-3:20 CPC Madhuchanda Kar/ Prantar Chakrabarti 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 5:00-6:00 Symposium - HIV National ART guidelines Associassion of HIV with Kala-Azar co-infection in North Bihar Prevention and management of Needle stick Injury Day 3 : Sunday, 22 nd February 2015 Hall A Amit Dhamija Prabhash Bhattacharyya Rajiv Goyal Ritesh Aggarwal Sanjeev Sinha T.K. Jha Alok Vashishtha 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, 22 nd February 2015 Hall B 9:00-10:00 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 10:00-11:15 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 Gurinder Mohan Rupjyoti Talukdar Rajesh Puri Ruby Sound Sujeet Jha A.G. Unikrishnan Surender Kumar Vijay Vishwanathan V. Palaniappen

24 Journal of the association of physicians of india vol 63 february, 2015 11:15-12:00 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 12:00-1:00 Symposium - Preventive Medicine Adult Vaccination Influenza: Prevention is better than cure Pneumococcal Vaccination Smokeless Tobacco and CVD Rajesh Gothi Pattabhi Raman Vallandramam Dharmesh Patel Y.S. Raju Vivek Nangia Subramaniam Swaminathan R.M. Chabbra Day 3 : Sunday, 22 nd February 2015 Hall C 9:00-9:45 Symposium - Rheumatology Treatment for rheumatic disorders: moving beyond biologics? Sicca Syndrome- the sinister by-stander Rheumatological emergencies 9:50-10:50 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 10:55-11:40 Symposium - Lipidology Is triglyceridaemia a star or supporting actor Management of dyslipidaemia intolerant to statin therapy Management of diabetic dyslipidaemia 11:40-1.00 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 Shankar Subramanian Rathindra Nath Sarkar Alakendu Ghosh Veena Choudhary Navin Kalra Praveen Gulati Arundeep Arora Gursaran Sidhu Ananda Bagchi Arvind Gupta Samir Parikh Ajit Verma V.N. Mishra Swaroop Abhimanyoo Pawar, US Anup Bhattacharya Day 3 : Sunday, 22 nd February 2015 Hall D 9:00-10:00 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 10:00-11:00 Session - Clinical Approach Anaemia Quadriplegia Galactorrhoea Unknown Poisoning 11:00-11:30 Therapeutics Newer Therapeutic Intervention in Geriatrics Rational Use of NSAID s 11:30-12:00 Metabolic Malnutrition to Metabolic syndrome--the transition in rural India Hyperuricaemia, diabetes & metabolic syndrome: intricacy in between 11:30-12:15 Potpourri Aplastic Anemia Heart Failure with Reserve Ejection Fraction - What is the Way Forward? Ocular effects of common systemic conditions Amar Pazare S.K. Guha Manoharan Mangesh Tiwaskar N.S. Verma S.V. Ramanamurty Dinesh Dhanwal Omender Singh Sandeep Tamane M.P.S. Chawla H. Basavana Gowdappa Arup Kumar Kundu Rajneesh Kapoor Kapil Midha