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EDITORIAL BOARD

Managing Editor and Editor in Chief

Dr. Arun Kumar Agnihotri
BSc, MBBS, MD, Dip. Torture Medicine
Additional Professor and Head
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
SSR Medical College, Belle Rive, Mauritius
Email: agnihotri_arun@hotmail.com

Executive Editor Members of International Advisory / Reviewers' Committee
Professor Nilima Jeebun Professor S. Shukla Professor T. K. Gunness Professor A. R. Joshi
Deputy Editor in Chief
Dr. R. N. Das Professor R. K. Marya Dr. Shabbir Ahmad Andrabi
Professor Theeshan Bahorun Dr. M. Prakash Hande Dr. Vandana Jeebun Professor Okezie I. Aruoma
Associate Editors
Professor Ashokkumar Jain Dr. N. Anbumani Dr. Anurag Tewari
Dr. Hossam M. Ashour Dr. Pamela Greenwell Dr. Shuchita Garg Dr. Sanjiv Rughooputh
Dr. Vineet Bhandari Professor N. S. Munshi Dr. Suvarna Joshi Dr. Vani Dandolu
Dr. Lynne Lim Hsneh Yee Professor Pushpa Sodhani Dr. Preeti Kanal Professor Vatsala Misra
Dr. Sanju George Dr. Smita Goorah Professor N. Hariharanadha Sarma Professor Nirupa N. Munshi
Dr. Pei-Yi Chu Professor Dhirendra Govender Dr. Ajai Singh Professor Rajendra Badwe
Dr. B. B. Gupta Dr. Babita Bhana Dr. Kanakadurga R. Poduri Dr. Vani Parmar
Dr. Smriti Agnihotri Professor Shailesh Banerjee Dr. Rimli Barthakur Professor V. V. Pillay
Dr. Hari Shankar Joshi Dr. Gopi A. Tejwani Dr. Arun C. Gulani Dr. Santosh K. Katiyar
Dr. Kirti Moham Marya Professor J. S. Shukla Dr. Vipul D. Yagnik Dr. Abdelkader Battah
Dr. Brijesh Purwar Professor R. V. Awate Professor Vikram Dogra Dr. M. S. Naga
Dr. Vandna Jowaheer Dr. Thuan Huu Vo Dr. Natarajan Raghunand Dr. Kewal Krishan
Dr. Vineet Gupta Dr. Sudesh Gungadin Dr. Rojymon Jacob Dr. Braj Bhushan
Professor Sushil Dawka Dr. Ravi Rautji Dr. S. B. Poorun Dr. Anthony A Oyekunle
Dr. Vicky Mody Professor B. L. Meel Dr. Anil Mohit Dr. Anita Khokhar
Dr. S. M. Kadri Dr. O. P. Murthy Dr. Sanjay Gupta  

Executive Editor

   

Professor Nilima Jeebun MD
Head, Department of Pathology
SSR Medical College, Mauritius

Dr. (Mrs.) Nilima Jeebun (Maiden name- Vajpeyi, born in India) is presently working as Professor and Head in the Department of Pathology, SSR Medical College, Mauritius. She passed her MBBS in 1973 from GSVM Medical College, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), India. Being married to a Mauritian doctor, she took the citizenship of Mauritius and worked as resident medical officer in various disciplines in the government hospital of Mauritius. She specialized in Pathology (MD) in January 1983 from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), India and was then appointed as Specialist Pathologist in the Central health Laboratory of Government of Mauritius. Apart from her duties of Histopathology, Hematology and Blood Transfusion Medicine, she also introduced Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) in Mauritius. She obtained a fellowship in Immunology from L’ Institut Pasteur, Lille, France in 1986. In 1997, she was appointed as Consultant Pathologist and Head of the Laboratory Services of Mauritius which is under the aegis of Ministry of Health and Quality of Life. She has also undergone a training course in Cytopathology, in Hammersmith Hospital, London, in the year 2000. She was the founder and president of the Blood Donors Association in Mauritius. She was also a part time teacher as Associate Professor in University of Mauritius for a period of about 13 years. She took early retirement from the Central Health Laboratory of Government of Mauritius in 2002 and since then is working in S. S. R. Medical College as Associate Professor, Department of Pathology where she established the department. She has attended several workshops in laboratory services, held in Ethiopia and Mauritius. She has been a member of advisory council of (MAURITAS). She has also been a member of the Scientific Committee of SSR Research Center of University of Mauritius. She has many scientific publications in International Journals.

   
Deputy Editor in Chief
   

Professor Theeshan Bahorun PhD
Department of Biosciences
University of Mauritius, Mauritius

Professor Theeshan Bahorun (Chair in Applied Biochemistry) joined the University of Mauritius in September 1996, as lecturer in the department of Biosciences, with an Msc in Biochemistry and a PhD in “Sciences de la vie et de la santé” from the University of Lille (France). He has been the head of the department of Biosciences between February 2004 and February 2006. His research interests include Molecular Nutrition, Functional Foods and their role in Health and Disease Management, Molecular Mechanisms and Biology of Free Radicals and Antioxidants  and Agricultural Biotechnology.  To date, Professor Bahorun is the author/co-author of more than 84 published peer reviewed chapters in books, research papers in specialised journals and conference proceedings and has co-edited several books. His research capacities have been recognized nationally and internationally. His research themes have been directly related to national issues and in this regard, he has been conducting a number of research projects on the effects of dietary nutriments on the incidence of various killer diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer. He is on the editorial board of several Journals and has served as  referee of a number of high impact factor Journals. He has been participating in a large number of international conferences as invited and plenary speaker.  Professor Bahorun has also been very actively involved in the promotion of research and other activities beyond the boundaries of the University sphere. For instance, he has been the Vice President and Secretary of the Society for Free Radical Research-Africa since 2001 and in that capacity he has been the co-chair and co-organiser of several international conferences. [Society for Free Radical Research-Africa 2001(Mauritius), 2002 (Cape Town, South Africa), 2003 (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), 2004 (St Lucia), 2005 (Morocco), 2008 (Mauritius)].  During the 7th Society for Free Radical Research-Africa/28th African Health Sciences Congress/4th African Rotavirus  International conference held in July 2008 in Mauritius, he was elected President of SFRR-Africa.  As vice-president and now President of SFRR-Africa, he  has spared no efforts to promote and strengthen scientific research capacity within Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Island countries.
Professor Bahorun is an active member of various national and international advisory boards and has brilliantly represented the University of Mauritius and the Republic of Mauritius at various international gatherings. In addition to his well-established scientific competence, he has acquired a rich experience in Agriculture and Biotechnology and his collaboration is strongly solicited at the national level. For instance, he has been from March 2003 to July 2005 the Chairman of the Food and Agriculture Research Council and member of the National Wildlife and Biodiversity Advisory Council, under the purview of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Technology and Natural Resources. He is a member of Member of the National Coordinating Committee UNEP/GEF Biosafety Project and he has regularly been consulted on pertinent agricultural issues as exemplified by his precious contribution in the elaboration of the GMO Bill, Seed Bill, Plant Breeders Right Bill and Plant Protection Bill and the drafting of research priorities in Agriculture.

   
Associate Editors
   

Dr. Hossam M. Ashour PhD
Lecturer and Research Instructor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Hossam M Ashour was born in Cairo, Egypt. He got his B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt in the year 2000. He ranked first in his class of a thousand students. He was then appointed as Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cairo University (Fall 2000). After spending two years at Cairo University and based on his accomplishments, he was offered a graduate research fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, USA. Thus, he joined University of Texas Southwestern Immunology program and got his MS degree in 2004 followed by his PhD in 2006. He was then appointed as a tenured faculty member at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt. After spending a year of research and teaching at Cairo University, he was offered a research fellow position at the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.  Currently, he works at the NIH, but still holds his tenured faculty position at Cairo University. Dr. Ashour’s research interests are in the areas of Microbiology and Immunology with emphasis on subjects that have broader impacts on human health. He has many remarkable national and international publications and is a distinguished editorial board member and reviewer on a variety of local and international scientific journals. He is also a member of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Belgian Immunological Society, the World Association of Medical Editors, and other prominent organizations. He has received a lot of awards, and is always being invited to participate in scientific conferences and workshops.  He is currently working with other interested scientists and organizations to help establish an immunodeficiency center in Egypt.

Dr. Vineet Bhandari MBBS, MD, DNB, DM, FAAP
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, USA

He did his medical school training from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India and then went on to do his pediatric and neonatology training from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.  Subsequently, he finished a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine from the University of Connecticut, USA.  He is board-certified in both by the American Board of Pediatrics.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine and an Attending Neonatologist at the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital in the USA.  He has edited the Manual of Neonatology (Peepee Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd. New Delhi, India. 2008 (http://www.peepeepub.com/Bookdesc.aspx?id=1613).  He has authored over 195 book chapters, original research articles and abstracts.  He has presented his research in many national and international conferences.

Dr. Lynne Lim Hsneh Yee MBBS (S'pore), FRCS, FAMS, MPH
Associate Professor and Consultant Surgeon, Department of Otolaryngology
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Dr. Lynne HY Lim is associate professor of otolaryngology department at National University of Singapore and consultant surgeon of head neck surgey at National University Hospital. She finished her graduation in medicine from National University of Singapore in 1992 and FRCS from Fellow Royal College Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1997. Subsequently, she was awarded with a Fellow Academy Medicine Singapore (ENT) in 2001 and obtained Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health at Boston. She participated in more than 100 international and regional teaching faculty presentations at conferences and workshops. Dr. Lim has more than 25 publications in international peer reviewed journals and contributed in book chapters. In addition she is a primary investigator of many research grants such as EDB Singapore Proof of Concept Grant-Development and determination of the efficacy and safety of a novel drug-eluting absorbable stent for trachea stenosis, Biomedical Research Council Singapore, Agency of Science, Technology and Research grant-Genotypic and phenotypic correlations of hereditary non-syndromic hearing loss in Singapore and NUS Office Life Science and Provost Matching Grant-Role of microbes in non-allergic rhinitis and otitis media with effusion in children. She also serves as associate editor for Singapore Medical Journal and reviewer for Annals Academy Medicine Singapore Journal.

Dr. Sanju George MBBS, MRCPsych
Consultant, Addiction Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust
England, UK

Dr Sanju George is a consultant and senior research fellow in addiction psychiatry at the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust and an Honorary senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Birmingham. He is a prolific academic with extensive research interests, mainly in areas of substance misuse and medical education, and has authored over 70 scientific papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. He is on the editorial board of 5 international journals and is a peer reviewer for 15 journals. His other academic commitments include work for the General Medical Council (as medical examiner and medical supervisor for the GMC’s fitness to practice proceedings for ‘sick’ doctors, and expert question writing panel member for the PLAB examination), expert panel member of the Solihull Research ethics committee, and Adviser for the BMJ Careers Focus Advice Zone. In recognition of his work as a clinician, service innovator and academic he has won many international awards:  BUPA foundation award (2008), two Health and Social Care Awards (2008) and Hospital Doctor Award (2007). He is also a published poet.

Dr. Pei-Yi Chu MD
Research and Diagnostic Pathologist, Department of Surgical Pathology
Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Dr. Chu serves as a research and diagnostic pathologist in the Department of Pathology, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan. He graduated from Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 2002. He has published many papers in peer reviewed journals. He was also invited to review more than 100 scientific manuscripts from more than 30 peer reviewed journals. Many poster or oral presentations in many international or local conference meetings are also included in his credit. He has also served as editorial board member for many peer reviewed journals and including being an Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Journal of Pathology. He has been teaching general pathology, tumor pathology, general medicine, and neuropathology in medical colleges. His research interests include tumor pathology, comparative pathology, veterinary pathology, animal models for human diseases, and molecular pathology. He also served as grant reviewer for government and as principal investigators in several scientific projects. He hopes to shed a light in the areas of comparative medicine.

Dr. B. B. Gupta MBA, MBBS, DHA
General Practitioner, B-5/157, Safdarjung enclave
New Delhi, India

Dr. BB Gupta has a private medical practice in his home town of New Delhi, India. He graduated in medicine (MBBS) from GR Medical College Gwalior (MP), India in the year 1979. He is very much interested in administration and academics. After his graduation, he obtained MBA degree from IGNOU and Diploma in Hospital Administration from YMCA. Dr. Gupta has been involved as a medico-political worker/leader since 1984. He has been active member of Indian Medical Association and has adorned various positions. In 2000-2001, he was President of Indian Medical Association South Delhi Branch. He has been an elected member of Executive Committees of Indian Medical Association South Delhi Branch and Delhi Medical Association for last several years. At present he is Assistant Secretary IMA (Headquarters). He is also Editor of Mediworld group of publications (publishers of drug Index IDR and many other specialty medical journals like Paediatrics Today, Gastroenterolgy Today) and is Coordinating Editor of Geriatric Care. He has many publications and also contributed a chapter in Geriatric Care (Text Book of Geriatrics and Gerontology). He has attended and also organized many national and international conferences as well as CMEs. Dr. Gupta is also member of several national professional organizations such as Life Member of Indian Medical Association, Life Member of Geriatric Society of India and Founder Member of Indian Doctors' Foundation. He has received many awards such as President's Appreciation Award Indian Medical Association South Delhi Branch, IMACGP Distinguished Service Award and Distinguished Service Award 2004 presented at International Conference of Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Dr. (Mrs.) Smriti Agnihotri MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
SSR Medical College, Mauritius

Dr. Smriti Agnihotri (maiden name- Tewari) is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, S. S. R. Medical College, Mauritius. She was born in 1973 and obtained M B B S (graduation in medicine) degree from G S V M Medical College, Kanpur (UP), India in 1995. She married a forensic expert in the year 1996 and has two lovely daughters (Aayushi-born 1998 and Tina-born 2003). After her marriage, she decided to make a career in pathology and got MD (post- graduation) degree from M. L. N. Medical College, Allahabad (UP), India in 2001. She became a Lecturer in the Department of Pathology of S. S. R. Medical College, Mauritius in 2002. In 2004, she moved to Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, where she was involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students besides carrying out diagnostic work in the clinical pathology laboratory at Manipal Teaching Hospital. She has also attended many Conferences, workshops and CMEs in her field. Dr. Smriti also published many scientific articles in different journals.

Dr. Hari Shankar Joshi MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine
Manipal College of Medical Sciences
Pokhara, Nepal

Dr. Hari shankar Joshi was born in 1971 and graduated in medicine (MBBS) in 1997 from MLN Medical College, Allahabad (UP), India in 1997. In 1999, he joined the specialty community medicine in the same college as a junior resident and completed post graduation in 2002. In 2002, he  joined the Department of Community Medicine, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal as  lecturer and became Assistant Professor in 2004. He has also attended many workshops, CMEs and Conferences related to his field. He is actively involved in research activities and submitted a project on "Indoor air pollution as a risk factor for pulmonary tuberculosis- A Case Control Study"  in association with Fofarty International Center, through a training grant to University of California Berkeley. He has about 20 scientific publications in various national and international journals. Dr. Joshi is a life member of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine.

Dr. Kirti Moham Marya MBBS, MS
Medical Director and Orthopedic Surgeon
Care Plus Medical Center
Dubai, UAE

Dr. KM Marya is Medical Director and CEO of a growing network of medical centers in Dubai and other emirates in UAE. He has been associated with teaching hospitals in India and Mauritius. He has been actively contributing towards medical literature and medical conferences and has more than 20 publications in international journals. He is member of many Orthopedic and Medical Societies. He was an invitee research fellow at the Academic University Groningen in the Netherlands. He was awarded Master of Surgery in Orthopedics with ‘Commendation’ from PGI of Medical Sciences Rohtak in India and was a medalist in his undergraduate career.

Dr. Brijesh Purwar MD
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences
Dehradoon, India

Dr. Brijesh Purwar is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradoon, India. He was born in 1966, and graduated in medicine (M B B S) from S. N. Medical College, Agra (UP), India in 1990. From 1992-1994, he worked as a medical officer under the Government of India. After that he developed interest in academics and obtained MD (post graduation) degree in Physiology from S. N. Medical College, Agra (UP), India in 1997. Dr. Purwar has worked as Senior Resident in Lady Harding Medical College and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He has also worked in S. S. R. Medical College, Mauritius as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology. Since 1995, Dr. Purwar has been actively involved in research activities and also has publications in national and international journals. He is a member of the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India (APPI).

Dr. (Mrs.) Vandna Jowaheer PhD (Statistics)
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Mauritius, Mauritius

Dr. Vandna Jowaheer joined the University of Mauritius in January 1996, as a lecturer with MSc and MPhil in Statistics. She was sponsored by the University of Mauritius to do her doctoral studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was awarded PhD in statistics in January 2001. She has been teaching the subject of statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students of various departments including Biosciences, Health and Medicine. Her research interests include modeling and analysis of medical health data. In fact, she has developed the statistical theories and models which can be applied to different fields of research including health and medicine. To be specific, besides other accomplishments, she has formulated various models to analyze the longitudinal responses in the incidence of disease, developed an estimation methodology to analyze multidimensional heath care utilization data, designed treatment allocation rults in clinical trial study which exploit accumulating past information to assign patients to treatments so that more study objects are assigned to the better treatment and developed a web-design for healthy survey. She has been invited to present papers at various international conferences and has several publications in peer-reviewed international journals. She served as head of her department for a term of two years. She is also a member of Mauritius Standards Council.

Dr. Vineet Gupta MD
House Staff Physician, Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Mercy, Pittsburgh
USA

Dr. Vineet is a house staff physician in the Department of Medicine, UPMC Mercy, Pittsburgh USA. He graduated from GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, India in 2003, and joined department of Emergency Medicine at AIIMS in 2004. There he was actively involved in fostering the clinical and research skills working in various capacities. He has many publications in international peer reviewed journals, chapters, presentations and awards in many international conferences to his credit. He serves as Associate editor/Editorial board member for many established peer reviewed journals. He envisions collaborative research projects between the developed and the developing world and egalitarian approach towards dissemination of scientific knowledge by enhancing indigenous research and journals. His research interests include General internal medicine, Nephrology, Infectious diseases, Bioethics, Acute medicine and Patient education. He foresees an academic career in medicine with an international perspective and sound research background.

Professor Sushil Dawka MBBS, MS
Department of Surgery
SSR Medical College, Belle-Rive
Mauritius

Professor Sushil Dawka (born 1964, Guwahati, Assam, India), passed the MBBS examination in 1987 and the MS examination in General Surgery in 1992 from Gauhati Medical College under Gauhati University, Guwahati, India. He worked as Registrar and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Gauhati Medical College from 1993 to 2003. Subsequently, he worked as Associate Professor and then as Professor in the Departments of Surgery and Anatomy, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, and as General and Laparoscopic Surgical Consultant at Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal from 2003 to 2009. At present, he is Professor of Surgery in SSR Medical College, Mauritius. Dr Sushil is a qualified instructor for Primary Trauma Care. He is also trained in Disaster Management and Hospital Preparedness. In addition, he is among the first batch of civilian doctors trained by the Indian Army and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation in High Altitude and Mountain Medicine and is an IMF empanelled Mountaineering Expedition Doctor. He has several publications to his credit and is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Gandaki Medical College, Nepal. He has a special interest in training methodology and the teaching of the craft of surgery. He is married to an Ophthalmologist. His hobbies include photography, astronomy, travelling, skiing, trekking and reading.

Dr. Vicky Mody PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Appalachian college of Pharmacy
Oakwood, USA

Dr. Vicky Mody completed his M.Sc. degree in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Mumbai in 2001. After completing his M.Sc he was teaching Chemistry to the undergraduate students in Mumbai, India. Later, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Houston, Houston, TX. Being Ph.D student he was involved in the synthesis of high valent oxo and nitrido metalloporphyrins and characterizing it with the unique technique of resonance Raman spectroscopy. Shortly, he worked at small scale chemical industry, Polyorganix Inc. as a Research Chemist. As a Research chemist, he acted as the project lead for the development of novel drug delivering polymers based on polyphosphazenes and several monomers. As the matter of fact, one of the polymers developed by Professor Mody has been successfully characterized in vitro and in vivo and currently is being evaluated for its efficacy. To further expand his horizons, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow for 2 years in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological sciences at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. During his term as the post doctoral fellow he successfully developed MRI contrast agents based on superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for the early detection of breast and ovarian cancer. He also mentored several undergraduate students for their research projects in the development of MRI contrast agents based on superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Soon after, he assumed a faculty position at the Appalachian college of Pharmacy, Oakwood, Virginia in August of 2009. Being an Assistant professor, he teaches medicinal chemistry to the professional PharmD students. The research projects carried out in his lab includes the development of multimodal imaging agent which can be used for the early diagnosis and therapy of brain tumors.

Dr. S. Manzoor Kadri MBBS, MPH/ICHD
Regional Institute of Health and Family Welfare
Directorate of Health Services
Kashmir, India

Dr. Kadri is a trainer in the Regional Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir, India. After completing his graduate in medicine (MBBS), he obtained Masters in Public Health (MPH) from the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, Netherlands and offered WHO fellowship in the Field Epidemiology Training. He has also completed a certified courses in 'HIV/AIDS and STD management' and 'Geriatric Medicine' from the Indian Medical Association. Dr. Kadri has over 65 research articles published in national and international journals. In Bioterrorism agents: Plague and Hepatitis C: what clinicians and other professionals need to know, Dr. Kadri was awarded by Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, USA.

International Advisory / Reviewers' Committee

Basic Sciences

Clinical Sciences

  • Professor T K Gunness MD CE
    Director, Cardiac Center, SSRN Hospital
    Ministry of Health and Quality of Life
    Mauritius
  • Dr. R N Das MBBS, MD, MRCP, FRCP
    Senior Consultant, Department of Medicine
    Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
    Kolkata, India
  • Professor R K Marya MBBS, MD, PhD
    Department of Physiology
    Asian institute of Medicine, Science and Technology
    Malaysia
  • Dr. Shabbir Ahmad Andrabi MBBS, MD
    Chief, Critical Care Medicine
    Damman Central Hospital, Eastern Province
    Damman, Saudi Arabia
  • Dr. M Prakash Hande PhD (Radiobiology)
    Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
    Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
    National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Dr. Vandana Jeebun MBBS, MRCP
    Registrar, Respiratory Medicine
    University Hospital of North Durham
    Durham DH, 5TW, UK
  • Professor Okezie I Aruoma PhD, DSc, CSci, FRSC
    Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences
    Touro College of Pharmacy
    New York, USA
  • Dr. N. Anbumani MD PhD
    Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
    Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute
    Sri ramachandra University, Chennai, India
  • Dr. Anurag Tewari MBBS, MD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
    Dayanand Medical College and Hospital
    Ludhiana (punjab), India
  • Dr. Pamela Greenwell PhD
    Molecular and Medical Microbiology, Research Director
    School of Biosciences, University of Westminster
    London, UK
  • Dr. Shuchita Garg MBBS, DA, DNB, MNAMA
    Senior Consultant, Department of Critical Care
    Dayanand Medical College and Hospital
    Ludhiana (punjab), India
  • Dr. Sanjiv Rughooputh PhD
    Senior Lecturer/Clinical Microbiologist
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex
    Wivenhoe Park, Essex, UK
  • Professor N S Munshi MD, DGO, DEP
    Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    SSR Medical College
    Belle Rive, Mauritius
  • Dr. Suvarna Joshi PhD
    Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
    SBH Government Medical College
    Dhule (Maharashtra), India
  • Dr. Vani Dandolu MD, MPH
    Associate Professor, Obstetrics/Gynecology
    Urology and Public Health
    Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
  • Professor (Mrs.) Pushpa Sodhani MBBS, MD
    Deputy Director and Chief, Diagnostic Cytopathology
    Iinstitute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology (ICMR)
    Noida (UP), India
  • Dr. Preeti Kanal MBBS, MS
    Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    MLB Medical College, Jhansi (UP)
    India
  • Dr. Smita Goorah MBBch, MRCP
    Head, Department of Medicine
    University of Mauritius
    Mauritius
  • Prof. Dhirendra Govender MBChB, FFPath, FRCPath
    Head, Department of Anatomical Pathology
    Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
    South Africa
  • Dr. Ajai Singh MBBS, MS
    Assistant professor, Department of Orthopedics
    King George Medical University
    Lucknow (UP), India
  • Dr. Babita Bhana MBBCh, FCfor.Path, Dip.FM
    Department of Anatomical Pathology
    University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
    South Africa
  • Dr. Kanakadurga R. Poduri MD
    Medical director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    University of Rochester Medical Center
    Rochester, USA
  • Dr. Rimli Barthakur MS
    Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
    SSR Medical College,
    Belle Rive, Mauritius
  • Dr. Gopi A. Tejwani PhD
    Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
    College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
    Columbus, Ohio 43210-1239, USA
  • Dr. Arun C. Gulani MD, MS
    Director, Gulani Vision Institute
    4500 Salisbury Road, Suite 160, Jacksonville
    Florida, USA
  • Professor J S Shukla MBBS, MD
    Head, Department of Pharmacology
    SSR Medical College
    Belle-Rive, Mauritius
  • Dr. Vipul D Yagnik MS, FMAS
    Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
    Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad
    Gujarat, India
  • Professor R V Awate MBBS, MD
    Head, Department of Community Medicine/Public Health
    College of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health
    Kingdom of Bahrain
  • Professor Vikram Dogra MD
    Director of Ultrasound, Department of Imaging Sciencies
    University of Rochester School of Medicine
    Rochester, USA
  • Dr. Thuan Huu Vo MD, MPH
    Head of Planning Division
    Institute of Hygiene and Public Health
    Vietnam
  • Dr. Natarajan Raghunand MS, PhD
    Associate Research Professor, Department of Radiology
    The University of Arizona
    Tucson, USA
  • Dr. Sudesh Gungadin MBBS MD
    Principal Police Medical Officer
    Police Medical Division, Port Louis
    Mauritius
  • Dr. Rojymon Jacob MD, DMRT, DipNB, FRCR
    Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
    School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham
    Alabama, USA
  • Dr. Ravi Rautji MBBS, MD
    Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine
    Armed Force Medical College
    Pune (Maharashtra), India
  • Dr. S B Poorun MBBS, MD
    Senior Specialist, Department of Radiotherapy
    Victoria Hospital, Ministry of Health and Quality of Life
    Mauritius
  • Prof. B L Meel MD, DHSM, DOH, Dip HIV/AIDS
    Head, Department of Forensic Medicine
    Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University
    South Africa
  • Dr. Anil Mohit MBChB, MRCP
    Specialist, Department of Medical Oncology
    Victoria Hospital, Ministry of Health and Quality of Life
    Mauritius
  • Dr. O P Murthy MBBS, MD
    Additional Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine
    All India Institute of Medical Sciences
    New Delhi, India
  • Professor Rajendra Badwe MS
    Head, Department of Surgical Oncology (Breast Unit)
    Director, Tata Memorial Hospital
    Mumbai (Maharashtra), India
  • Dr. Sanjay Gupta MBBS, MD, DNB
    Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine
    Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad
    Gujarat, India
  • Dr. Vani Parmar MS, DNB (Surgery)
    Associate Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology
    Tata Memorial Hospital
    Mumbai (Maharashtra), India
  • Professor V V Pillay MBBS, MD, DCL
    Chief, Department of Analytical Toxicology
    Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
    Cochin, India
  • Dr. Santosh K. Katiyar PhD
    Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology
    Environmental Health Sciences, University of Alabama,
    Birmingham AL, USA
  • Dr. Abdelkader Battah MBBS, PhD
    Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Section
    Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan
    Amman, Jordan
  • Dr. (Mrs.) M S Naga FRCPsych, DPM
    Consultant in charge
    Brown Sequard Mental Health Care Centre
    Beau Bassin, Mauritius
  • Dr. Kewal Krishan MSc, PhD
    Lecturer, Department of Anthropology,
    Punjab University, Chandigarh
    India
  • Dr. Braj Bhushan PhD
    Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology
    Indian Institute of Technology
    Kanpur (UP), India
  • Dr. Anthony Adebukola Oyekunle MBBS, FMCPath
    Lecturer and Consultant Hematologist
    Department of Hematologist, Obafemi Awolowo University
    Ile-Ife, Nigeria
 
  • Dr. Anita Khokhar MBBS, MD
    Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine
    Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College
    Delhi, India
 

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