General Medicine
Faculty
Services
OPD Schedule
Specialty Clinics
Statistics
Courses & Short term Trainings
Research
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Expansion plan
General Medicine
Vision statement: To develop a state of the art, internationally acclaimed department of internal medicine.
Mission statement: The Department of Medicine all Indian institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh has been a pioneer Department add this Institute of national importance since inception. The Department was established in 2013 and they started functioning its clinical services in 2014. This Department has been the cornerstone of clinical services in internal medicine and all allied sub specialities and remain the main source for deciphering services in the field of Cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, nephrology and other medical sub-specialties till they started functioning as independent Department. The Department has been ranked as one of the best department at AIIMS Rishikesh, the Department is structurally functioning as a single unit with multiple specialty clinics attached to individual faculty member. Various clinical services being delivered through its special clinics are diabetes, geriatrics, rheumatology, lifestyle diseases and infectious diseases. Department is having dietetics Attached to it both in OPD and IPD for dietary counseling and nutritional care of patients. Department is running general medicine OPD in the morning hours. The specialty clinics are being run in the afternoon. Between 2:00 to 4:00 PM the frequency of these clinics are wearing from weekly business to almost five days a week. The Department is envisioned to achieve few centers of excellence in various domains of clinical, research and academic.
Photo | Name & Qualifications | Designation | Areas of Interest | Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page |
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Dr. Darab Singh Underwal | Assistant Professor | Clinical :- Research :- | drdrbsingh2@gmail.com | |
Dr. Sukdev Manna | Assistant Professor | Clinical :- Research :- | sukdevmanna90@gmail.com | |
Dr. Ravi Kant | Additional Professor | Clinical :- Research :- | drkantr2006@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1144-4478 | |
Dr. Venkatesh S M.B.B.S, M.D Internal Medicine(PGI), D.M Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology(SGPGI) | Additional Professor | Clinical :- Rheumatic and autoimmune disorders Research :- RA, SLE, SpA | pai.med@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5935-8627 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Venkatesh_S_Pai | |
Dr. Prasan Kumar Panda M.D. | Additional Professor | Clinical :- Internal Medicine,Infection diseases: Covid-19, Dengue, Chikungunya, H1N1, Leishmaniasis, Enteric fever, Scrub typhus, Cysticercosis, Diarrhea,Upper respiratory tract infections, FUO, Critical care Fever, Sepsis, Shock, Hemoohagocytic syndrome in infections Antimicrobial Stewrdship(5) Public health policy on infections diseases Research :- Infection diseases, Antimicrobial Stewrdship | prasan.med@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3008-7245 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prasan_Panda | |
Dr. Mukesh Chand Bairwa | Associate Professor | Clinical :- Research :- Critical care | drmukeshbairwa1982@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8974-5775 |
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Services Available in the department:
- Outpatients department: Total No. of patients consulted from 01.04.2017 to 31.03.2018-79,823 OPD services are being provided to patients on weekdays from 9:00 am and finished when all patients are seen. Patients with all communicable and non-communicable diseases are seen here. Minor procedures like giving intra-articular injections given in OPD under all sterile conditions.
- Specialty Clinics/ services (Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic)
- Schedule- day and consultant wise
- In-patients department: 87 BEDS C1,C2,C3.
- Procedures (Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic) offered by the department:
- Hemodialysis, Invasive ventilation, Nanochecker
- What are they aimed at? Improvement of patient care decreasing morbidity and mortality in them.
- Photographs of the instruments during the procedure
- Surgeries offered for the surgical departments
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Day of Week/time | Specialty Clinic | Consultant in charge | Consult, if you have following issues |
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Courses & Short term Trainings
Name of the course | Curriculum | Duration of course | Present number of students | Objectives/ brief description of the course |
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MBBS | 5Years 6 Months | 100 | ||
MD, Medicine | 3 Years | 44 | ||
MD, Geriatrics | 3 Years | 1 | ||
PDCC , Geriatrics | 1 Years | 1 | ||
PDCC in lifestyle disease management | 1 Years | 2 | Course details:
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D.M Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology | 3 Years | 1 | To increase the number of trained rheumatologists in the country – manage rheumatic and autoimmune diseases with reasonable expertise, lab training, research in the field & teaching skills in rheumatology. | |
Fellowship in Diabetes | 1 Years | |||
PhD | 2 Years | 3 |
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Research Projects
Title | Site-Investigators | Principal Investigator | Collaboration, if any (Department and institute) | Funding Agency | Projects Status |
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Generation of recombinant monoclonal antibodies for prophylactic and therapeutic use in Chikungunya virus infection Reference Number IA/I/20/2/505221 | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Dr. Soma Rohtagi (Asst. Professor) IIT Roorkee | IIT Roorkee | Welcome Trust | Submitted |
Study of leishmaniasis and sandfly in upstream belts of the Ganga and Yamuna of Uttrakhand Himalayas. | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Dr. P.K Panda | DBT/Welcome Trust India | Welcome Trust | Submitted |
HTA of National stroke Care registry Programme development of hospital based Stroke Registries (HBSR) in different regions of India | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | ICMR | Submitted | ||
IMPETU Stroke Implementation of an Evaluation and Treatment Package for Uniform Stroke Care and outcome in India. An Implementation Research Study | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Dr. Neeraj Kuamr | Multicentre study , AIIMS New Delhi | ICMR | Submitted |
Covid -19 Well- Being Among Quarantine, Covid-19 Positive Patients And Front Line Healthcare Workers. | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Dr. Rag | Multicentre study , CCRYN | CCYRN | Submitted |
yoga as a prophylaxis intervention in Covid-19 suspected quarantine cases and frontline healthcare workers involved in Management of COVID-19 patients | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Dr. Ragvendra Director CCYRN | Multicentre study | CCYRN | Submitted |
Development and testing of Smart Wearable Pod for long term in-vivo monitoring of physiological parameter | Dr. Ravi Kant | IIT, Roorkee | Ongoing | ||
Non-invasive Glucose Monitoring Using IR and Optical Cameras in collaboration | Dr. Ravi Kant | IIT, Roorkee | Ongoing | ||
The acute heart failure registry study in India CURE-HF study – co investigator with SRM university Chennai Multicentric study | Dr. Monika Pathania | Dr. Melvin George | SRM university Chennai Multicentric study | SRM | Ongoing |
To study the association and expression of IL-33 levels with clinical and laboratory characteristics of rheumatoid arthritis | Dr. Venkatesh S Pai | Dr. Manju Ohri Pai | Women Scientist project funded by DST of Dr. Manju Ohri Pai | Ongoing | |
HTA of Nation stroke Care registry Programme development of hospital based Stroke Registries (HBSR) in different regions of India | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Dr. Neeraj Kuamr | ICMR | ICMR NCDIR | Ongoing |
Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (DAD) for Longitudinal Aging Study of India (LASI) is a Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Project | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Dr. AB. Dey | AIIMS, Delhi | NHA | Completed |
Prevalence, pattern and prevention of skeletal and dental fluorosis in district Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand. | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Dr. Vartika | UC Cost | Completed | |
Effect of an integrated Yoga program on stress, mood states, sleep quality, symptom severity, quality of life and clinical outcomes in Covid19 positive patients undergoing conventional treatment. | Dr. Minakshi Dhar | Multi Centre Study Department of Science and Technology | Completed | ||
Ventilator associated pneumonia in elderly. | Dr. Ravi Kant | Completed | |||
ICMR Project A study to assess the consumption pattern of food/ Products high in fat, salt and sugar in selected cities/ rural areas of India | Dr. Ravi Kant | ICMR | Completed | ||
Efficacy, Feasibility and Acceptability of continuous glucose monitoring system in comparison to Glucometer based approach in diabetic patients on Insulin therapy in hilly areas of Uttarakhand state. | Dr. Ravi Kant | UCOST | Completed | ||
Affordable Treatment for diabetic patients with consistent monitoring for project affected area/Rishikesh Area/Nearby Area | Dr. Ravi Kant | THDC | Completed | ||
Effect of Non-Pharmacological intervention among cardiovascular risk patient in selected rural Areva of Rishikesh. | Dr. Ravi Kant | THDC | Completed | ||
Effectiveness of Ayurveda treatment for Urdhwag amlapitta (Uninvestigated dyspepsis) – A Randomized Double Blind Placebo Control Study. | Dr. Ravi Kant | AYUSH | Completed | ||
Effect of hypertension on cognition assessed through p-300 scoring | Dr.Monika Pathania, Guide to PG Dissertation | Completed | |||
Study of correlation between clinical profile of patients non alcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome | Dr.Monika Pathania, Guide, sts project ICMR | ICMR | Completed | ||
Assessment of sleep Qality,quality of life and lifestyle related parameters in hypertensive subjects at a tertiary care hospital | Dr.Monika Pathania, Guide, sts project ICMR | ICMR | Completed |
Projects (Extramural)
Title | Site-Investigators | Principal Investigator | Intramural/ Extramural | Collaboration, if any (Department and institute) | Funding Agency | Projects Status |
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Projects (Intramural)
Title | Site-Investigators | Principal Investigator | Intramural/ Extramural | Collaboration, if any (Department and institute) | Funding Agency | Projects Status |
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Collaboration for | Collaboration with Department and institute | Services offered/ work undergoing in collaboration |
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The acute heart failure registry study in India CURE-HF study- Dr. Monika Pathania | SRM university ,Chennai | Registry study |
Collaboration for | Collaboration with Department and institute | Services offered/ work undergoing in collaboration |
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Expansion planned for the future:
Clinical Services:
- Dr. Minakshi Dhar – To develop centre of excellence for Geriatric care centre, – To start teleconferencing with peripheral centers involved in Geriatric care
- Dr Ravi Kant, To develop center of excellence in Diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
- Dr. Monika Pathania, Increase frequency of life disease clinic.
- Dr. Venktesh S. Pai, To have a full-fledged Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology Clinic, Rheumatology/ Immunology Lab and Department.
Academics and teaching:
- Dr. Minakshi Dhar- To start a DM course in Hospital Medicine and Critical care
- Dr. Monika Pathania, Starting PDCC
- Dr. Venktesh S. Pai, To have regular Academic SRs in the department, regular seminars, journal clubs, clinical bedsides
- Dr. Mukesh Chand Bairwa- To start a PDCC course in Critical care
Research:
- Dr. Ravi Kant, Establish advance diagnostic endocrine lab.
- Dr. Venketesh S. Pai, To have regular research associates, PhD students and research activity in the department