Alumni Awards

• Dr Arpit Taunk got best paper award at Interventional Radiology CME organized by IRIA, Delhi Chapter

• Dr Pradheer Gupta, PDCC student presented poster on “Incidence and Predictors of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and Non Cirrhosis”

• at AASLD 2019, San Fransisco, USA.

• Dr Nitya Batra attended,MYCOCON2018, IAMMDCand ICCMID 2018, Delhi

• Dr P. Girisha atteneded HISICON 2018, Hyderabad and presented poster on “Elizabeth kingia: waiting to strike”

• Dr Arvind Khodare presented poster on “Incidence and microbiological profile of central line assaociated blood stream infection (CLASI) in era of bundle care”

Conference Presentations

Annual Conference of American Association of Liver Disease ‘The Liver Meeting 2018’ held in San Francisco, USA

• Poster presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey titled ‘Plasma Exchange in Transplant Free Survival in Pediatric ALF with advanced Hepatic Encephalopathy

ISPGHAN 2018 (5th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) held in Mumbai on 26th-28th October, 2018.

• Oral Plenary Presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey titled ‘Predictors of Hepatitis A virus induced Pediatric Acute Liver Failure- An Etiology specific Study’

• Oral Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay titled ‘ Budd-Chiari syndrome in children – outcome following radiological intervention

• Poster Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay titled ‘Changing Spectrum of Pediatric Liver Abscess in Indian Subcontinent

  • Poster Presentation by Dr. Snehavardhan Pandey titles ‘Natural History of Hepatopulmonary Syndrome in Biliary Atresia versus other Chronic Liver disease’

59th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology” (ISGCON 2018) at Kochi, Kerala, India [28thNovember-1st December 2018]

• Oral Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay in the ‘Liver Clinics’ titled ‘A case of Pediatric Acute-on-chronic liver failure.

27th Annual conference of Asia Pacific Association for Study of Liver Diseases (APASL) Annual Meeting 2018 – March 14-18, 2018, New Delhi

• Oral paper presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey – Liver involvement in celiac disease in children

  Conference Presentations

  Annual Conference of American Association of Liver Disease ‘The Liver Meeting 2018’ held in San Francisco, USA

  • Poster presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey titled ‘Plasma Exchange in Transplant Free Survival in Pediatric ALF with advanced Hepatic Encephalopathy

  ISPGHAN 2018 (5th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) held in Mumbai on 26th-28th October, 2018.

  • Oral Plenary Presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey titled ‘Predictors of Hepatitis A virus induced Pediatric Acute Liver Failure- An Etiology specific Study’

  • Oral Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay titled ‘ Budd-Chiari syndrome in children – outcome following radiological intervention

  • Poster Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay titled ‘Changing Spectrum of Pediatric Liver Abscess in Indian Subcontinent

    • Poster Presentation by Dr. Snehavardhan Pandey titles ‘Natural History of Hepatopulmonary Syndrome in Biliary Atresia versus other Chronic Liver disease’

  59th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology” (ISGCON 2018) at Kochi, Kerala, India [28thNovember-1st December 2018]

  • Oral Presentation by Dr Priti Vijay in the ‘Liver Clinics’ titled ‘A case of Pediatric Acute-on-chronic liver failure.

  27th Annual conference of Asia Pacific Association for Study of Liver Diseases (APASL) Annual Meeting 2018 – March 14-18, 2018, New Delhi

  • Oral paper presentation by Dr Snehavardhan Pandey – Liver involvement in celiac disease in children

Resident’s Awards

• Dr. Shakti Prasad: Received ‘Young investigator award and best abstract award’ for presenting his work on ‘Continuous infusion of terlipressin is more effective and safe than bolus administration in HVPG reduction in patients with acute esophageal variceal bleed- A randomized controlled trial’ at AASLD , USA.

• Dr.Anand Kulkarni: APASL transplant quiz winner(first prize) with honorary membership in march APASL 2018 plus cash prize

Resident’s Presentation at International Conferences:

1. IHPBA international congress 2018, Geneva, Switzerland: Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease; Does Abstinence Correlate with Recidivism? (Oral presentation) : Dr. Brahmadatta Pattnaik.

2. Annual congress of International Liver Transplant Society-ILTS, 2018. Lisbon, Portugal: Adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells in cirrhotics and healthy individuals- Are they the same?(Poster presentation): Dr Kumaraswamy P.

3. Annual congress of International Liver Transplant Society-ILTS, 2018. Lisbon, Portugal: Liver transplantation in acute on chronic liver failure. (Poster presentation): Dr Shashwat Sarin.

Resident’s Presentation at National Conferences:

1. Pretransplant monocyte as a biomarker to predict sepsis and acute rejection after liver transplantation (poster presentation at LTSI 2018, AIIMS , New Delhi by Dr Imtiakum Jamir.

2. Hilar cholangiocarcinoma-Surgical experience from tertiary care hospital, (poster presentation at RGCON, New Delhi 2018- by Dr Kumaraswamy (Received the best poster award).

3. Donor outcomes in Living donor liver transplantation, influenced by duo-selection and surgery (Poster presentation MCLD, Chennai 2018) by Dr Kumaraswamy.

4. Expanding donor pool in Living donor liver transplantation-Experience with NASH and Fibrosis, oral presentation INASL 2018, New Delhi and International liver symposium, New Delhi 2018, by Dr Kumaraswamy.

5. Liver structure and function assessment after proximal spleno renal shunt in patients with EHPVO (Poster presentation at IHPBA Pune 2018) by Dr Kumaraswamy.

6. Living donor liver transplant for acute liver failure: donor safety and recipient outcome (Poster presentation at 4th international Liver Symposium, 2018, New Delhi) by Dr Ankur Vagadia.

7. Liver Transplantation in Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (Poster presentation at 4th International Liver Symposium, 2018, New Delhi) by Dr Shashwat Sarin.

1. Dr. Ashish Vyas bagged the prestigious DST-Inspire faculty position.

2. DST-Women Scientist was awarded to Ms. Savera

3. Work on nanoparticles has been filed for patent: Dipeptide based Nanostructures for Targeted Delivery of miRNA for HCC treatment. Application No. 01611023040 (2016); Patent authors are AVarshney, J Panda,AK. Singh, SB. Rooge, S. Biswas, SK. Sarin,VS.Chauhan,

4. Ms. Bijoya Sen had two oral presentation with Young Investigator Award at AASLD, 2018

5. Bijoya and Islam received the DST-travel grant to attend the international AASLD meeting held in San Francisco, USA.

Publications/Presentations by Residents

1. North Zone ISN conference, Jaipur February 2018, Poster presentation

2. AVATAR, National conference: New Delhi August 2018 Central venous obstruction in hemodialysis – a case series with vascular interventions: a single centre experience at ILBS by Dr. Dibyajyoti Kalita

3. ISNCON, Bhubaneshwar 2018: “Spectrum of glomerular diseases in patient with chronic liver disease in north India : a single centre study.” By Dr Dibyajyoti Kalita,

4. Ongoing research work:

• “A Study of incidence and risk factors of Chronic Kidney Disease following orthotopic Liver transplantation in adult patients with Chronic Liver Disease and development of a predictor model for occurrence of Chronic Kidney Disease in liver transplant recipients” – Dr Dibyajyoti Kalita.

• “Prevalence of infections and quality of life in CKD, Dialysis and Renal Transplant patients – An observational study.”-Dr Anuradha

• “Effects of oral alkali therapy on the progression of chronic kidney disease in patients of diabetic kidney disease – a prospective randomized controlled trial” -Dr Anand Jain

• “Effects of discontinuation of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systeminhibitors on eGFR in advance chronic kidney disease” -Dr Rajesh Kumar

1. Ms. Harshita Tripathi : Oral presentation at APASL Liver Meeting, 14-18th March 2018, New Delhi, India. “Aggressive Nutrition Therapy Significantly improves 28 Day Survival in Critically Ill Cirrhotics with high Nutrition risk as Assessed by NUTRIC Score”

2. Dr.Varsha Shasthry: Poster presentation at AASLD Liver Meeting, 2018, 9-13th November 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA. “Visceral Adiposity Fans the Flame of Mortality in Sarcopenic Patients with Liver Cirrhosis” Poster present at ISGCON 2018, 28 Nov-1 Dec 2018, Kochi, Kerala

• Dr. Sumeet Kainth: Had a presidential plenary at AASLD on the topic “Ecacy And Safety Of Carvedilol In Patients Of Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure With Small Or No Esophageal Varices – A Placebo Control Open Label Randomised Trial (NCT02583698)” Was awarded young investigator travel award at AASLD 2017

• Dr. Vikash Prakash: Had an oral presentation at AASLD 2017 on the topic “Early introduction of a combination of low dose terlipressin and noradrenaline as vasopressors is superior to high dose noradrenaline alone in patients of cirrhosis with septic shock(NCT02468063)” Was awarded international travel award at AASLD 2017 21

• Dr. V.Rajan: Had an oral presentation at AASLD 2017 on the topic “ Early addition of prokinetics reverses gut paralysis and improves survival in critically ill cirrhotics- An open label placebo controlled RCT (Feed Intolerance and Treatment-FIT protocol)”

• Dr. Anand Kulkarni: Had an oral presentation at AASLD 2017 on ω3 polyunsaturated fatty acids(PUFA) lipid emulsions are safe and eective to reduce endotoxemia and sepsis in patients with Acute on Chronic Liver Failure -A randomised controlled trial.(NCT 02691533) Was adjuged the best abstract presentation by a fellow at the AASLD and awarded international travel award at AASLD 2017 Ms.

• Harshita Tripathi: Won the 2nd Prize in free paper presentation at ISGCON 2017, December 14th-17th, 2017 Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha. “Modied NUTRIC Score Guided Aggressive Nutrition Therapy Signicantly Decreased 28 Day Mortality in Critically ill patients in Liver Intensive Care Unit”.

• International Travel Award given to Dr Arti for Annual Conference of American Association of Liver Disease ‘The Liver Meeting 2017’ held in Washington DC, USA for Oral presentation titled ‘Plasma Lactate Predicts Mortality in children with Hyperacute Liver Failure’ by to Dr. Arti Pawaria.

• C.P Mittal award for Young Investigator- Awarded to Dr Bikrant Bihari Lal at 4th Annual conference of ISPGHAN, held at Guwahati, India in 2017

• Best Oral Paper award in Hepatology section- Awarded to Dr Bikrant Bihari Lal at 4th Annual conference of ISPGHAN, held at Guwahati, India in 2017.

• Best Oral Paper Award at Master class in Liver Disease (MCLD) 2017, held in Chennai, India Awarded to Dr Snehavardhan Pandey for paper titled ‘Profile and Outcome of first 109 cases of Pediatric Acute liver Failure at a Specialised Pediatric Liver Unit in India’.

• Second prize in ‘Best thesis Award’ category- Awarded to Dr Bikrant Bihari Lal at Annual conference of IJP, held at AIIMS, New Delhi, India in 2017

• Dr. Ashish Kumar Vyas Awarded Young Investigator Award at EASL-2017, and Young Investigator Award and Third prize in oral presentation at ISGCON 2017Dr. Sumeet Kainth: Had a presidential plenary at AASLD on the topic “Ecacy And Safety Of Carvedilol In Patients Of Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure With Small Or No Esophageal Varices – A Placebo Control Open Label Randomised Trial (NCT02583698)” Was awarded young investigator travel award at AASLD 2017

• Dr.Vikash Prakash: Had an oral presentation at AASLD 2017 on the topic “Early introduction of a combination of low dose terlipressin and noradrenaline as vasopressors is superior to high dose noradrenaline alone in patients of cirrhosis with septic shock(NCT02468063)” Was awarded international travel award at AASLD 2017 21

• Dr. V.Rajan: Had an oral presentation at AASLD 2017 on the topic “ Early addition of prokinetics reverses gut paralysis and improves survival in critically ill cirrhotics- An open label placebo controlled RCT (Feed Intolerance and Treatment-FIT protocol)”

• Dr. Anand Kulkarni: Had an oral presentation at AASLD 2017 on ω3 polyunsaturated fatty acids(PUFA) lipid emulsions are safe and eective to reduce endotoxemia and sepsis in patients with Acute on Chronic Liver Failure -A randomised controlled trial.(NCT 02691533) Was adjuged the best abstract presentation by a fellow at the AASLD and awarded international travel award at AASLD 2017

• Ms. Harshita Tripathi: Won the 2nd Prize in free paper presentation at ISGCON 2017, December 14th-17th, 2017 Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha. “Modied NUTRIC Score Guided Aggressive Nutrition Therapy Signicantly Decreased 28 Day Mortality in Critically ill patients in Liver Intensive Care Unit”.

• International Travel Award given to Dr Arti for Annual Conference of American Association of Liver Disease ‘The Liver Meeting 2017’ held in Washington DC, USA for Oral presentation titled ‘Plasma Lactate Predicts Mortality in children with Hyperacute Liver Failure’ by to Dr. Arti Pawaria.

• C.P Mittal award for Young Investigator- Awarded to Dr Bikrant Bihari Lal at 4th Annual conference of ISPGHAN, held at Guwahati, India in 2017 Best Oral Paper award in Hepatology section- Awarded to Dr Bikrant Bihari Lal at 4th Annual conference of ISPGHAN, held at Guwahati, India in 2017.

• Best Oral Paper Award at Master class in Liver Disease (MCLD) 2017, held in Chennai, India Awarded to Dr Snehavardhan Pandey for paper titled ‘Profile and Outcome of first 109 cases of Pediatric Acute liver Failure at a Specialised Pediatric Liver Unit in India’.

• Second prize in ‘Best thesis Award’ category- Awarded to Dr Bikrant Bihari Lal at Annual conference of IJP, held at AIIMS, New Delhi, India in 2017

• Dr. Ashish Kumar Vyas Awarded Young Investigator Award at EASL-2017, and Young Investigator Award and Third prize in oral presentation at ISGCON 2017

Department’s Achievements

a. Dr. Vikas Hegde presented an oral paper on “Prediction score in the Blood component utilization in live donor liver transplant of chronic liver disease patients: a comprehensive study” and was awarded 3rd PRIZE at TRANSMEDCON Bhopal held in November 2016.

b. Dr. Vikas Hegde presented a poster on “Formula to calculate the total blood volumes to be processed during a therapeutic platelet reduction at TRANSMEDCON Bhopal held in November 2016.

c. Dr. Akshay Batra presented 2 posters; titled, “Analysis of 1-year experience with plasmapheresis in patients with neurological diseases at a tertiary neurosciences center in Southern India”, and “Role of

low plasma volume treatment on clinical efficacy of plasmapheresis in neuromyelitis optica” at 34thCongress of International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) DUBAI held in September 2016.

d. Dr. Akshay Batra presented oral paper titled, “Therapeutic plasmapheresis in Guillain Barré syndrome: an experience at a tertiary neurosciences center in Southern India” at Joint Congress of American Association of Blood Bank (AABB) and Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine (AATM) Bangalore held in December 2016.

e. Dr. Akshay Batra co-authored oral paper titled “Did positive anti-ACHR antibody status warrant more plasma volume treatment in patients with myasthenia gravis? An experience in plasma exchange at a tertiary neurosciences center in Southern India” at TRANSMEDCON Bhopal held in November 2016.

f. Dr. Akshay Batra was invited as Guest Speaker on topic titled “Therapeutic plasma exchange in liver diseases” in pre-conference workshop on “Modern blood banking: ‘A to Z’ of plasmapheresis” at 57th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (ISHBT), HEMATOCON Jaipur held in November 2016.

g. Dr. Vikas and Dr. Akshay trained the blood bank staff in Immunohematology at National Institute of Biologicals Noida held in November 2016.

h. Mr. Pankaj Jain was invited as a technological expert in pre-conference workshop on immunohematology at TRANSMEDCON Bhopal held in November 2016.

i. Mr. Pankaj Jain presented a lecture on e-raktkosh at TRANSMEDCON Bhopal held in November 2016.

Department’s Achievements

Representation of the Department by the residents at various National/International Conferences:-

• Vijeta Bajpai, Ekta Gupta, Pragya Ranjan, Meenu Bajpai. “Needle stick injury in health care workers: need for implementation of policy” oral presentation in international conference “World trauma congress” in Delhi 18 Aug’2016.

• Manish C. Choudhary, Javed Akhtar, Archana Rastogi, Rhisita Nath, Vidhya Natarajan, Ekta Gupta, Nirupma Trehanpati, Gayatri Ramakrishna, Shiv K. Sarin “HCV-NS2 protease induces growth arrest in Huh7 cells, accompanied by aberrant nuclear localization of E-cadherin and increased WNT1 expression suggestive of epithelial to mesenchymal transition state. Poster presentation at Boston, USA in AASLD 2016 11th-15th November, 2016.

• Supriya Mahajan, Pragya Ranjan, Vijeta Bajpai, Suman Lata Nayak, Ekta Gupta*. “Prevalence of Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis C virus and Human Immunodeficiency virus in chronic kidney disease patients on haemodialysis in a tertiary care hospital in India.”

Poster presentation in Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists – Delhi Chapter (MICRO-D-CON 2016) held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 19th November 2016.

• Vijeta Bajpai, Ekta Gupta, supriya Mahajan, Ashish Chowdhary, Meenu Bajpai. “Clinical relevance of Anti HBc as a predictive marker of occult Hepatitis B virus infection” Oral presentation in VMMC award session in Delhi Chapter IAMM 19 Nov’2016.

• Mousumi Paul, Nadeem Hasnain, Vijeta Vajpai, Ekta Gupta*. “Clinical Utility Of Quantification Of CMV DNA In Intestinal Biopsy Specimen In Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients”.Delhi Chapter (MICRO-D-CON 2016) held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi in November 2016.

• Supriya Mahajan, Ekta Gupta, Hafiz Ahmad, Manish Chandra Choudhary, Guresh Kumar. “Evaluation of dried blood spot as a method of sample collection for Hepatitis C virus RNA quantification.” Oral presentation in National conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (MICROCON 2016) held at PGIMER, Chandigarh on 26th November 2016.

• Vijeta Bajpai, Ekta Gupta, Rakhi Maiwal, Lalita Gauri Mitra, Kapil Dev Soni, Amit Gupta. “Detection of respiratory viruses in adults chronic liver disease patients with lower respiratory infections in Intensive care units” Oral presentation in national conference PGIMER Microcon 27th Nov’2016.

• 57th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology – ISGCON 2016 held at New Delhi from 15th-18th December 2016 : Case presented at Liver Clinics – ‘Case of Portal Hypertension in a patient with PDA’ by Dr. Bikrant Bihari Lal,

• World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (WCPGHAN) held at Montreal, Canada from 5th-8th October 2016: Poster Presentation titled “Study of Prevalence of Fatty Acid Oxidation Defects in children and adults with Acute Liver Failure: Significance of Carnitine/Acylcarnitine and Aminoacid Profile” by Dr. Vikrant Sood

• 3rd Annual Conference of Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (ISPGHANCON); Kolkata from 23-24th September 2016 – Oral Presentation on “ Predictors of Acute kidney Injury in Children with Acute-onchronic Liver Failure” by Dr. Bikrant Bihari Lal

• Poster presentation titled- Profile and Outcome of Acute kidney Injury and Hepatorenal syndrome in pediatric patients with liver disease by Dr. Bikrant Bihari Lal – Poster presentation on “Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment Vs Conventional anthropometry” by Dr. Arti Pawaria.

• Poster presentation on “Liver involvement in Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis – Experience from a tertiary liver referral centre” by Dr. Arti Pawaria

• Oral Presentation on “Duct Paucity in children: Spectrum, clinical Profile and Outcome” by Dr. Babu Lal Meena

• 24th Annual Scientific meet of Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL), held in New Delhi, India on 5th–7th August, 2016; Oral Plenary presentation titled “Study of Prevalence of Fatty Acid Oxidation Defects in children and adults with Acute Liver Failure: Significance of Carnitine/Acylcarnitine and Aminoacid Profile” by Dr. Vikrant Sood

• 3rd Kunwar Viren Oswal Course in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Liver Transplantation and Nutrition on 7-10th August 2016 at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi;

• Oral Presentation on “ Predictors of Acute kidney Injury in Children with Acute-onchronic Liver Failure” by Dr. Bikrant Bihari Lal

• Poster presentation titledProfile and Outcome of Acute kidney Injury and Hepatorenal syndrome in pediatric patients with liver disease by Dr. Bikrant Bihari Lal

• Poster presentation on “Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment Vs Conventional anthropometry” by Dr. Arti Pawaria.

• Poster presentation on “Liver involvement in Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis – Experience from a tertiary liver referral centre” by Dr. Arti Pawaria

• Oral Presentation on “Duct Paucity in chilDr.en: Spectrum, clinical Profile and Outcome” by Dr. Babu Lal Meena

• 49th annual meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) held in Athens, Greece in May 2016

• Case Presentation – “Adolescent with Massive Splenomegaly”by Dr. Arti Pawaria .

• Paper (e-Poster and Poster) titled ‘’Study of Familial Tendency and PNPLA3 Polymorphism in Pediatric Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease’’ and ‘’Non Cirrhotic Portal Fibrosis in Pediatric PopulationBreaking the Myths!!’’ by Dr. Vikrant Sood

• Hepaticon 2016 held at Mumbai on 9-10th April 2016; Case presentation“Young child with hemetemesis” by Dr. Arti Pawaria

• 8th Master Class in Liver Diseases held at Chennai on 21-23rd January 2016; Oral presentation“Plasma Lactate Predicts Mortality in children with Hyperacute Liver Failure” by Dr. Arti Pawaria

• For the 26th Annual Conference of Asian Pacific Association for Study of Liver Diseases (APASL) 2017, Shanghai, China to be held from 16-19th Feb 2017, a total of two oral presentations and three posters have been accepted.

Resident’s Achievements:

Tanmay Vyas: Asia Pacific Association for study of liver [APASL], Young Investigator Award; ISG 2016 Best Poster Award

Chetan Kalal:Young Investigator Travel Award for poster presentation at the EASL Monothematic Conference- Ljubljana 25-26 November, 2016 Single theme conference on Nutrition and Liver Disease.

Young Investigator Travel Award for poster presentation at AASLD Liver Meeting 2016, November 11-15, Boston. “Effect of long term aggressive nutritional therapy on survival in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis- A randomized controlled trial” Indian Society of Gastroenterology Conference 2016, Plenary Presentation.

Cyriac Abby Phillips: Young Investigator Travel Award for poster presentation at AASLD Liver Meeting 2016, November 11-15, Boston.

Vikash Prakash:Young Investigator Travel Award for poster presentation at AASLD Liver Meeting 2016, November 11-15, Boston.

Anand Kulkarni: ICMR travel award for AASLD 2016

Varsha Shasthry : Poster presentation at 25th Annual APASL conference, February 20-24, 2016 – Tokyo, Japan , “Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) is in Proximate Agreement with the Computed tomography (CT) based Assessment of Sarcopenia in Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease”

• 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.”

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.

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.

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

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

• “The coinfection of Parvovirus B19 with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C virus does not aggravate the hepatic dysfunction in patients with chronic hepatitis”. Yogita Verma, Ekta Gupta, Harsh Vardhan Reddy, Ajeet Singh Bhadoria, Shiv Kumar Sarin. MICRO-D-CON, 27th September, Max hospital, Saket.

• “Epidemiological paradox of Hepatitis A: Time to rethink”. Neha Ballani, Ekta Gupta, Kavita Muralinath, Priyanka Pandey, S.K Sarin. MICRO-D-CON, 27th September, Max hospital, Saket.

• “Evaluation of patients with low levels of anti HCV seropositivity. Neha Ballani, Ekta Gupta, Ayushi Tiwari”. MICROCON 2014, Jaipur. 17-19 October.

• “Hepatitis C virus Genotype 3 is associated with higher grade of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C virus infected patients”. Ekta Gupta, Naveen Kundu, Juhi Khurana, Neha Ballani, Archana Rastogi. Oral presentation in MICROCON 2014, Jaipur. 17-19 October.

• “To study the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with non alcoholic fatty liver disease”. Juhi Khurana, Ekta Gupta, Neha Ballani, Archana Rastogi, Ajeet Singh Bhadoria. Oral presentation at MICROCON 2014, Jaipur. 17-19 October.

The Senior Residents in the Department have presented papers and posters in International and National conferences, notworthy among them being ILTS, IHPBA, IASG and IOPA. All three final year M.Ch. residents have won awards.

• 1st prize in medical quiz won by Dr Aravind S. In IHPBA 8th certificate course Delhi September 2014, Delhi.

• 1st prize in miscellaneous category to Dr Shyam M. in 24th National Conference of IASG, IASGCON 2014 Unmasking of myeloproliferative disorder in a patient with EHPVO following PSRS

• Isolated IGg4 related Sclerosing cholangitis: A retrospective analysis from a high volume tertiary care teaching hospital 1st prize in biliary section: Dr Murali A

Presentations at International Conferences:

• Pegylated Interferon Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis B Infection- Is it the best option available in Children?” Vikrant Sood, Sanjiv Verma, Rajeev Khanna, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam, at annual AASLD Liver meeting at Boston, USA on November 8, 2014.

• Etiological profile and outcome of Pediatric Acute Liver Failure (PALF) in younger children in a specialised liver centre in India. Seema Alam, Rajeev Khanna, Dinesh Rawat, Bikrant Bihari Lal, Vikrant Sood. Poster presented at 23rd Annual Conference of APASL at Australia on 12-15 March’ 2014.

• “Should we offer treatment in immunotolerant phase to children and adolescents with confirmed verticallly transmitted chronic HBV infection”. Seema Alam, Rajeev Khanna, Sanjeev Verma, Vikrant Sood, Dinesh Rawat. Poster presented at 23rd Annual Conference of APASL at Australia on 12-15 March’ 2014.

• Poster presented at European Society of Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Nutrition. (ESPHAGAN) : International Liver Congress, April 9-13 2014, London (UK): Usefulness of diagnostic scoring system in seronegative autoimmune hepatitis.

National Conferences:

Communication at PEDGASTROCON 2014 at Kochi on 19-21 September, 2014.

• Profile and outcome of Pediatric Acute Liver Failure (PALF) in infants and young children at a tertiary Pediatric Hepatology centre in India”: Bikrant Bihari Lal, Vikrant Sood, Nikhil Mehra, Rajeev

• Khanna, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam.

• “Etiological, Clinical and Laboratory Profile of Children with Pancreatitis: Role of Genetic Screening and Interventional Procedures in Management.” Lokesh Sharma, Vikrant Sood, Rajeev Khanna, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam.

• “Biliary features on liver biopsy – a predictor of poor outcome in children with autoimmune hepatitis”. Bikrant Bihari Lal, Vikrant Sood, Rajeev Khanna, Seema Alam, Dinesh Rawat.

• “Cholestatic liver disease masquerading as Wilson’s disease- Are western guidelines applicable in developing countries? An Indian Experience”. Vikrant Sood, Bikrant Bihari Lal, Dinesh Rawat, Rajeev Khanna, Seema Alam.

• “Hereditary Spherocytosis presenting as Spontaneous Bile Duct Perforation”. Bikrant Bihari Lal, Kishore GSB, Vikrant Sood, Rajeev Khanna, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam

• “Trans-TIPSS obliteration of left gastric vein for control of refractory variceal hemorrhage following TIPSS blockage in an adolescent with Budd-Chiari syndrome”. Bikrant Bihari Lal, Rajeev Khanna,Dinesh Rawat, Amar Mukund, Seema Alam.

• “Predictors of short-term outcome in unoperated biliary atresia or those with unsuccessful portoenterostomy”. Nikhil Mehra, Bikrant Bihari Lal, Vikrant Sood, Sanjeev Verma, Rajeev Khanna, Dinesh Rawat, Seema Alam

• “Spectrum of drug-induced liver injury in children”. Nikhil Mehra, Sanjeev Verma, Bikrant Bihari Lal, Dinesh Rawat, Rajeev Khanna, Seema Alam

• “Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis- Clinical Spectrum of a Rare Cholestatic Disorder in Indian Children”. Sajan Agarwal, Bikrant Bihari Lal, Dinesh Rawat, Rajeev Khanna, Archana Rastogi,Seema Alam.

• “Biliary features on liver biopsy – a predictor of poor outcome in children with autoimmune hepatitis”. Bikrant Bihari Lal, Vikrant Sood, Rajeev Khanna, Seema Alam, Dinesh Rawat. Awarded Second prize in Poster presentation:

• Awarded Third prize for two oral presentations.