Presentations and Awards at the Major International/National Liver Meetings by residents of Hepatology Department

Dr. Awinash Sinha

• Poster presentation at APASL (Istanbul), March 2015, got grant from liver care foundation to attend the same.

• Oral presentation at AASLD (San Francisco)- November 2015.

• Presidential poster presentation at AASLD (San Francisco)- November 2015.

Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips

• Oral presentation at Asia Pacic Association for Study of Liver held at Istanbul, Turkey March 2015 on “Hemophagocytic Syndrome in Acute on Chronic Liver Failure.”

• Poster presentation at Asia Pacic Association for Study of Liver held at Istanbul, Turkey March 2015 on “Quick Viral Response in Treatment evaluation in Chronic HCV patients.”

• Poster presentation at European Association for Study of the Liver held at Vienna, Austria 2015 on “Cellulitis and Outcomes in Cirrhosis.”

• Poster presentation at European Association for Study of the Liver held at Vienna, Austria 2015 on “A novel score to predict contrast induced nephropathy in cirrhosis patients.”

• Invited for the Presidential Plenary presentation on “Fluid resuscitation in Cirrhosis with Sepsis Induced Hypotension” at the annual Liver Meeting conducted by the American Association for Study of Liver Diseases held at San Francisco, November 2015.

• Awarded the International Young Investigator Travel Prize, one out of 4 prizes globally given to outstanding presentation and abstract at the annual Liver Meeting conducted by the American Association for Study of Liver Diseases held at San Francisco, November 2015.

• Awarded honorary Trainee Membership to the American Association for Study of Liver Diseases in 2015

Dr. Devaraja Rangegowda

• Granted Registration Bursary for EASL accepted abstract - EASL 2015.

• Presidential poster in AASLD (San Francisco) - November 2015.

• Oral presentation in APASL 2015.

Dr. Madhumita Premkumar

• 2 Posters presentation at AASLD (San Francisco)- November 2015

• Accepted abstract in ISGCON 2015.

Dr. Tanmay Vyas

• Oral presentation: ISGCON 2015 at Indore. A unique case of post liver transplant cholestasis

Department's Achievements

• Clinical Scenarios in Pediatric Liver Disease 2014 and 2015 was a feather in the cap of the department as the conference organized in association with Delhi IAP were a grand success. About 200 participants who attended the conference, each year were very enthusiastically asking and answering questions. In the end they demanded that all case scenarios should be given to them as a copy for further reference. We have decided to make it an annual event at ILBS.

• Second position in poster category at 14th Scientic Meeting of CAPGAN & 2nd annual conference of ISPGHAN, 02-04th October, 2015- New Delhi. Bikrant Bihari Lal, Rajeev Khanna, Vikrant Sood, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam.

• “Transient elastography to differentiate children with biliary atresia from other

• causes of neonatal cholestasis.”

• Second prize at IJP Competitive Grand Rounds held at AIIMS- 13th September, 2015. Dr Vikrant Sood and Dr Bikrant Bihari Lal represented Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences at IJP National Competitive Grand rounds held at AIIMS. Our students presented a series of 2 cases on approach to cryptogenic ascites. Our team won the 2nd prize at the event.

• Dr. Vikrant sood presented case on “Liver failure in an infant” in Hepaticon 2015(10-11 January'2015).

• Dr. Bikrant Bihari Lal presented a case on “15 month old child with fatty liver” in

• Hepaticon 2015 (10-11 January'2015).

• Poster presentation on “How to identify metabolic liver diseases in children presenting with acute liver failure?” Bikrant Bihari Lal, Seema Alam, Rajeev Khanna, Vikrant Sood, Dinesh Rawat in 23rd Annual Conference of INASL- July 31- Aug 02, 2015- New Delhi.

• Poster presentation on “Prole and predictors of outcome in Pediatric Acuteon- Chronic Liver Failure.” Bikrant Bihari Lal, Seema Alam, Rajeev Khanna, Vikrant Sood, Dinesh Rawat in 23rd Annual Conference of INASL- July 31- Aug 02, 2015- New Delhi.

• Poster presentation on “Transient elastography to differentiate children with biliary atresia from other causes of neonatal cholestasis” Bikrant Bihari Lal, Rajeev Khanna, Vikrant Sood, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam in 23rd Annual Conference of INASL- July 31- Aug 02, 2015- New Delhi.

• Oral presentation on “Lactate predicts mortality in children with hyperacute liver failure” Arti, Dinesh Rawat, Vikrant Sood, Rajeev Khanna, Seema Alam in 14th Scientic Meeting of CAPGAN & 2nd annual conference of ISPGHAN, 02-04th October, 2015- New Delhi.

• Oral presentation on “Study of family clustering & PNPLA3 polymorphism in pediatric NAFLD” Vikrant Sood, Bikrant Bihari Lal, Rajeev Khanna, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam in 14th Scientic Meeting of CAPGAN & 2nd annual conference of ISPGHAN, 02-04th October, 2015- New Delhi.

• Poster presentation on “NCPF in Pediatric Population - Breaking the myths” Vikrant Sood, Bikrant Bihari Lal, Rajeev Khanna, Chhagan Bihari Sharma, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam in 14th Scientic Meeting of CAPGAN & 2nd annual conference of ISPGHAN, 02-04th October, 2015- New Delhi.

• Poster presentation on “Prole of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure in Children and the predictors of outcome” Bikrant Bihari Lal, Seema Alam, Rajeev Khanna, Vikrant Sood, Dinesh Rawat in 14th Scientic Meeting of CAPGAN & 2nd annual conference of ISPGHAN, 02-04th October, 2015- New Delhi.

• Poster presentation on “Phenotypic spectrum of Liver involvement in Infants with mitochondriopathies” Aditi Kumar, Bikrant Bihari Lal, Vikrant Sood, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam in 14th Scientic Meeting of CAPGAN & 2nd annual conference of ISPGHAN, 02-04th October, 2015- New Delhi

• Poster presentation on “Role of transient elastography to differentiate children with biliary atresia from other causes of neonatal cholestasis” Bikrant Bihari Lal, Rajeev Khanna, Vikrant Sood, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam in American Association For Study of Liver Diseases- The Liver Meeting- 2015. November 13 – 17, 2015 at San Francisco, USA.

• Oral presentation on “Case of infantile liver failure” in the session Clinics in Liver Disease; Vikrant Sood in 56th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology, 19-22 Nov 2015 at Indore.

Representation of the Department by the residents at various National Conferences:

• “Hepatitis B vaccination status and anti-HBs antibody levels in health care workers at a tertiary care institute in north India: a six year survey” Pragya Ranjan, Neha Ballani, Amit Chaturvedi, Ekta Gupta CIDSCON, 21-23 August, New Delhi.

• “A comparative analysis of three platforms for hepatitis C viral load testing” Pragya Ranjan, Ekta Gupta, Priyanka Menon, Guresh Kumar Chibbe, Shiv Kumar Sarin, APASL STC, 18-20 December, New Delhi.

• “Progression of Liver brosis in HCV genotype 3a is associated with modulation in let-7 miRNA family” Manish Choudhary, Sadaf Dar, Ekta Gupta, SyedvKazim, Gayatri Ramakrishna, Shiv Kumar Sarin APASL STC, 18-20 December, New Delhi.

• Dr. Shruti presented paper on “Anti-G, a masquerading antibody – case report in ISBTI” 26th September 2015, New Delhi.

• Dr. Ashish presented poster on “Auto anti-C in a female with primary sclerosing cholangitis – a unique case presentation.”

Research Fellow Achievements

Dr. Jasswinder Singh Maras

• DST-Inspire Faculty, Awarded Travel Bursary EASL

Dr. Suvrecha Bhardwaj

• DST-Young women scientist

Dr. Sukriti Baweja

• Sr. Fellow (Non Medical) Molecular Biology ISGCON 2015 Plenary award

Dr. Dinesh Sheila

• Sherlock EASL Fellowship

Dhananjay Kumar

• Travel Bursary EASL

• Top ten abstracts with Travel Support at 2015 Till & McCulloch Meetings, Toronto, Canada

• Training award of one month under Stem Cell Therapy

• Programme at Toronto University in October – November 2015

Dr.Manish Chaudhary

• Jr. Fellow (Non Medical) Virology Ph.D. awarded by Jamia Milia University Best Presentation, APASL, 2015

Dr. Dinesh Tripathi

• PhD awarded by Jamia Milia University

Sadaf Bashir

• Travel award from Dept of Biotechnology, Virology Meeting, Germany

Ashish Kumar Vyas

• Young Investigator with bursary for travel award, EASL, Austria

Avishek Singh

• Young Investigator with bursary for travel award, EASL, Austria

Sukanta Das

• ICMR Senior Research Fellowship

Paul David

• ICMR Senior Research Fellowship

Mohsin Hassan

• ICMR Senior Research Fellowship

Sheetal Nath Rooge

• CSIR Senior Research Fellowship

Adil Bhat

• CSIR Junior search Fellowship

Javed Akhtar

• CSIR Junior Research Fellowship

Swati Arora

• ICMR Junior Research Fellowship

Tarique Anwar

• Best poster award , Cell Biology Conference, Trivandrum