Meetings

Chairperson - DR Ravi kale

Secretary - Dr Devendra Yadav

EC members-  Dr. Prashant Jain, Dr. Pinaki Deb, Dr. Vishesh Jain, Dr. ( Col) Sanat Khanna, 

24/01/2015

Dear all

Delhi chapter IAPS meeting was well organized by Dr Ravi Kale and his team and followed by cocktail dinner.  Four clinical cases were presented well and further discussed in detail.

1- Case series of 12 cases of Pectus Excavatum (Nuss procedure)  were presented by Dr Kamal, moderated by Dr Sanath.Prof Bhatnagar elaborated his vast experience of 18 cases of Pectus operated by combined Ravitch-Nuss technique (using free rib as a strut). he will presen his series in next meeting at Max Saket.

2- one case  of bilateral pheochromocytoma was presented. one side open (large lesion) and another side lap ( small lesion) complete excision was done after appropriate pre-operative stabilization.Prof Sandeep Agarwala discussed the need of adrenal preserving enucleation and bilateral exploration in either side confusing lesion.

3- one follow through sase of Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome was presented, received around 500blood transfusion but still bleeding. no improvement after right hemicolectomy, further planned for exploration and removal of all visualized lesion (naked eye and intraoperative scopy). After this patient is now asymptomatic since 11 month-great efforts Dr Shamkar

4-A case of interesting but confusing psoas hemangioma was presented

Thanks to Dr Kale, Dr Puri, Dr Shanath and Dr Shankar for their efforts.

Regards

25/04/2015

Dear all

Delhi IAPS meeting was held at  Max Saket and Park hotel on 25th and 26th of April respectively. The meeting was attended by approx. 25 Pediatric surgeon of Delhi.

At Max Saket, both the clinical cases and lunch were excellent. Thanks to Dr Gautam S Agarwal and Dr Anuraf Krishna for wonderful organization.

At Park Hotel, seminar on VUR- Recent trends was organized with detailed discussion on a puzzling topic of VUR.

Delhi IAPS salute Maj Gen R Kale (President Delhi Chapter IAPS), on completing his army tenure and spanning more than three decade over there. Hats off sir

Regards

--

Dr Devendra Kumar Yadav

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

11/07/1015

Dear all

Delhi IAPS meeting was very well oraganized at PGIMER and RML hospital, New Delhi

Thanks to Dr Amita sen and his team for excellent academic activity and nice hospitality.  Despite of odd weather condition meeting was attended by 21 pediatric surgeon.

Date for annual meeting of Delhi IAPS was propsed on 30th August and accepted. This time only one day programme was planned. Detailed will be mailed by Dr Anup Mohta and his team.

With regards

--

Dr Devendra Kumar Yadav

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

3 rd Annual Conference of Delhi state chapter of IAPS

1. The annual conference was organized by Prof. AnupMohta and his team at

Chacha Nehru BalChikisalaya on 30 th August 2015

2. The meeting was attended by 70 pediatric surgeons and trainees all

across the NCR.

3. The conference was a full day academic feast with unique but none the

less important topics on quality of health care in our patients, including

free paper presentations.

4. Pre Conference dinner was organized on 29 th August 2015 at India Habitat center and was enjoyed by all.

Minutes of General Body Meeting (GBM)

1. GBM was attended by 35 members and was presided by Dr Ravi Kale

(President , Delhi Chapter).

2. Secretary Delhi IAPS presented the annual report (details will be mailed

separately)

3. Secretary Delhi IAPS proposed the plan to create a website of Delhi state

chapter. Secretary Delhi IAPS will arrange the funds for the same. The

website will be supervised by Secretary IAPS and Dr Vishesh Jain. The

proposal was accepted in the GBM.

4. Prof V Bhatnagar and Prof Rajiv Chadha proposed the annual meeting can

be held on Saturday afternoon and Sunday forenoon (rather than full day

on Sunday). Dr Sujit Chowdhury and Dr Meera Luthra differed from this

opinion. It was decided that the timing of the meeting would be left to the

discretion of the organizer.

5. Prof V Bhatnagar also proposed the case reports should be discouraged

for free paper presentation until they have a significant and relevant carry

home message. Case reports can be accommodated as poster or e-posters.

The proposal was accepted.

6. The next annual meeting (2016) will be organized at Kalawati Saran

Children Hospital. Dr Sujit Chowdhury proposed that the annual meeting

should be held alternately at government and private sector institutes.

Thereby he agreed to host the annual meeting of Delhi IAPS in 2017.

7. Dr Sujt Chowdhury agreed to organize the next routine meeting of Delhi

IAPS in November. The final details will be communicated later.

8. Two yearly elections of Executive Council Members of Delhi IAPS was due

this year and nominations were asked by Secretary Delhi IAPS but none

were received.

9. Dr Shilpa Sharma proposed the name of following 5 members sent to the

secretary by email.

 Dr Anju Gambhir

 Dr Rakesh Bhargava

 Dr Samir Kant Acharya

 Dr Akshay Sharma

 Dr Shankar Raman

10. Members present in the meeting proposed the names of following

members, proposed by (Dr Rajiv Chadha, Dr Sujit Chowdhury, Dr Anup

Mohta, Dr V Bhatnagar, Dr Ravi Kale)

 Dr Vivek Manchanda

 Dr Deepak Kandpal

 Dr Nidhi Sugandhi

 Dr Shankar Raman

 Dr Pratap Singh

The proposal was approved by the GBM and these members were

considered elected to the Executive Council of the Delhi IAPS for two

years.

11. Prof Anup Mohta was handed over the charge of President, Delhi State

Chapter by Dr Ravi Kale.

12. Meeting ended with a Vote of Thanks

Dear members

thanks for attending the meeting at Apollo hospital on 21st nov 2015

Thanks to Dr sujit and Dr deepak for wonderful organization

Dr Deepak presented the complications of TEF surgery & its management followed by  a presentation of 80 cases of Hirschsprung disease, operated by open and LAP assisted technique.

Dr Sujit shared his experience of robotic surgery for various types of  urological anomalies. Congratulation to Dr sujit and his team for their 100 consecutive robotic cases, a largest asian series.

GBM was cancelled due to lack of time

Future meetings

Feb 2016-RML Hospital

April 2016- VMMC and SJ Hospital  

Pl attend 2 days conference "Advances in pediatric Urology" at AIIMS on 23 and 24th December 2015.

With regards

--

Dr Devendra Kumar Yadav

Honorary Secretary cum Treasure

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

Chairperson - DR Anup Mohta

Secretary - Dr Devendra Yadav

EC members-  

06/02/2016

Dear members

Thanks for attending the CME on ARM at RML hospital

 The Meeting was attended by 17 PG students and pertinent topics on ARM and video operative session  were discussed and demonstrated respectively.

The afternoon session was attended by around 50 Pediatric surgeons. This session was appreciated a lot because of the high level of discussion By Prof DK Gupta, Prof Rajiv Chaddha, Prof S Roy Chwodhury and Prof Satish Agrawala on CPC, Bowel management in ARM and complications in ARM surgery.

The next monthly meeting will be held at VMMC and Safdarjang hospital in April

a date will be informed soon

with regards

--

Dr Devendra Kumar Yadav

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

09/04/2016

Dear Members

Monthly meeting of Delhi IAPS was very well organized by, Dr Baggaa and his team on 9th April 2016. The meeting was attended by 45 Pediatric Surgeons from Delhi

Interesting cases of foreign body were discussed, and the worth mentioning is the wrist band tourniquet case.

Four cases,two each of Adrenocortical tumor and pheochromocytoma were discussed

 107 cases of vestibular fistula with associated anomalies over a period of seven years were presented and some common and uncommon association like pouch colon, vaginal agenesis were discussed in detail. Long-term follow- up showed good

cosmesis and functional outcome.

Thanks to  Dr Bagga and his team for organizing the monthly meeting and delicious lunch.

With regards

--

Dr Devendra Kumar Yadav

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

Chairperson - DR S Roy Chaudhary

Secretary - Dr Devendra Yadav

EC members- 

14/01/2017

Warm greetings

Thanks to Dr Shalini for organizing the Delhi IAPS clinical meeting at the newly open branch of the Rajiv Gandhi cancer Institute at Gautam Nagar, New Delhi. We really enjoyed the lunch and the video of USG guided PICC line.

The meeting was attended by about 40 persons(25 Delhi IAPS members)

The minutes of the GBM is attached.

With regards

The following agenda were discussed in the GBM

1. President resignation- Prof Anup Mohta had resigned from the president post, just before the 2016 annual conference. The GBM unanimously decided that fresh nomination should be invited for the post of the new president. So all the members interested in president post should mail their name for the same to the secretary Delhi IAPS.

2. Delhi IAPS registration and the need for a PAN no-  Secretary Delhi IAPS raised the issue of PAN no, in view of difficulty faced by clinical meeting organizers in fund raising. the members put their input as 

i-  Dr Sujit Chowdhary and Dr S Roy Choudhury pointed out the

need for registration of Delhi IAPS at the office address of present

secretary, so that process for PAN registration can be started. He

also pointed out the way of functioning of an others society like

ours. Secretary, Delhi IAPS will find out and informed accordingly.

ii- Dr Rakesh Handa opinions that all the organizers could receive

funding under the Delhi IAPS provided 15% of the fund should

be deposited in the Delhi IAPS account for the logistic purpose as

the fee for account audit etc.

The views of other members are invited on these issues

18/03/2017

Dear Members

Thanks for attending the Delhi IAPS meeting at RML hospital.

Four interesting cases, spontaneous bile duct perforation, triple atresia, neonatal gastric perforation and neonatal intussusception were presented, and discussed in detail.All the presentations were very well appreciated by the audience.

Meeting was followed by a GBM (Detailed will be mailed soon)

The next meeting is scheduled at Hotel Siddharth on 29th April 2017, organized by Dr Prashant and his team.

Thanks to Dr Amita and her team for organizing the Delhi IAPS meeting.

With regards

--

Dr Devendra Kumar Yadav

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

Minutes of Delhi IAPS GBM held at PGIMER and RML hospital on 18/03/2017

 The meeting, organized by Dr.Amita Sen and her team was attended by 25 members.

Delhi IAPS welcomed the newly joined  Assistant professors at the various institution.:

1.     Dr.Vikram Khanna: Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Lady Hardinge Medical College

2.     Dr. Amit Gupta: Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Lady Hardinge  Medical College

3.     Dr. Amit Jadhav:  Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College &Safdarjang Hospital

4.     Dr. R Meena: Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital

5.     Dr. Shashank Panda: Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College.

The following agendas were discussed in the GBM

1.     Resignation by Prof. AnupMohta from the post of President, Delhi IAPS: Dr.Anup Mohta resigned from the post of President of Delhi IAPS on 5th November 2016.

Nomination for interim president was sought from members by e-mail after the GBM held at RGCIR in January 2017. However, no response was received.  

Dr. Rakesh Handa proposed the name of Dr. S Roy Choudhury as interim president during the GBM at RML hospital. The proposal was seconded by Dr.Amita Sen and accepted by the GBM.

Any query or objection by any member of the Delhi IAPS on this matter is welcome before April 27, 2017.

 2.     Registration of Delhi IAPS, generation of Permanent Account Number and constitution:  Prof. DK Gupta suggested that PAN may be applied for at the address of any of the office bearers of Delhi IAPS, followed by the opening of new account and registration of society. The expenses regarding this issue will be born by Delhi IAPS. Constitution of central IAPS may be adopted with some modification if required.

 3.Membership status of    Prof. YK Sarin: It has been clarified from the central IAPS that Prof Y K Sarin is a life member of IAPS. Any dispute regarding this matter was ratified earlier at Mumbai GBM.

29/04/2017

Dear members

Delhi IAPS meeting was successfully held at Hotel Siddhartha on 29th April 2017.  Thanks to members for attending the meeting and congratulation to Dr. Prashant and Dr. Ashish for organizing the wonderful meeting, It was a splendid event. You really raised the standard of Delhi IAPS meeting.

This meeting was further glorified by the presence of Prof Prem Puri, from Dublin.

Four interesting cases, Teratoma at various locations, short bowel and its management, Laparoscopic B/L adrenalectomy and Thoracoscopic mediastinal mass excision were presented and discussed.

Once again thanks to Dr. Prashant for the delicious lunch.

The meeting was concluded by the President Dr. S Roy Choudhury with a short address. 

Dr. Sujit Chowdhury has informed that PESICON 2018 will be organized at Apollo hospital, New Delhi from 24th to 26th February 2018. 

With regards

--

Dr. Devendra Kumar Yadav

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

29 July 2017

Dear members

 Thank you so much for attending the Delhi IAPS meeting held at AIIMS on 29th July 2017.

The meeting was attended by 70 pediatric surgeons, across the Delhi-NCR.

Four different cases of Lung hydatid cyst, tracheal stenosis with Laryngol tracheoesophageal cleft, sub-acute intestinal obstruction after jejunal atresia repair in new born with a feature of visceral myopathy and antenatally diagnosed urinary ascites were presented and discussed in detail.

Prof D K Gupta welcomed the members attending the meeting and invited them to attend the upcoming ISPRS meeting scheduled to be held at hotel Lalit, New Delhi on 8-10 September 2017.

Prof S R Choudhary, President Delhi IAPS announced the elections of the  Delhi IAPS society for the post of President-one (2017-19), Secretary-cum-treasurer -one (2017-2020) and five executive body members. The elections will be held during the annual meeting, scheduled at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on 18-19 November 2017.

The members who wish to contest for the posts of president, secretary, and the executive member can send their nominations to Secretary Delhi IAPS at seciapsdelhi@gmail.com latest by 31st October 2017. The nominations can be withdrawn by 7th November 2017.

The interested members should send their nomination by themselves. Proposal of any name by other members should be avoided.

There will be no Delhi IAPS meeting in August and October, because of others national and international meetings at various places in India.

Regards

-

Dr. Devendra Kumar Yadav
Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer
Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Delhi State Chapter

Chairperson - DR S R Chaudhary

Secretary - Dr Anju Gambhir

EC members- 

Dear All,

As the year comes to an end, I wish to put on record, the bitter sweet events related to Delhi IAPS throughout the year.

I took over as Secretary and Prof S R Choudhury, as President of the DELHI IAPS CHAPTER at the Annual meeting at SGRH at the end of Nov’ 2017.

Academic meetings of the year 2018   under the aegis of IAPS DELHI CHAPTER  started with UDS workshop and PSU at MAMC.  Delhi was host to PESICON at the beginning of the year.

Four meetings including CMEs were held by  Delhi IAPS through the year starting with the CME at KSCH which saw a new trend in the form of a half day Hands on Training course  in Laparoscopy for members and trainees, in addition to the CME.

The next meeting in July at AIIMS witnessed superannuation of Prof D K Gupta who worked for nearly 4 decades at the Institute. In his next innings he has taken over as Director of the Child Super Speciality Hospital at NOIDA Sec 30 for the next 5 years.  A Symposium on Esophageal substitution was held to mark the occasion

On 7th and 8th of September the next meeting of Delhi IAPS Chapter was held at RML as the Annual Delhi IAPS Chapter conference.

MAMC under Prof Sarin held two more Workshops under the banner of Delhi IAPS Chapter on topics which are not commonly touched upon – ‘Peer Review of Journals Workshop’ and ‘Use of Radionucleotides in Pediatric Urology and Nephrology’

The fourth meeting cum CME was held again at AIIMS to mark the Superannuation of another senior Pediatric Surgeon Prof V Bhatnagar.  Prof Bajpai accomodated time for the Delhi IAPS from the annual pediatric urology update for felicitating Prof Bhatnagar. Dr. Anju Gambhir read out a brief CV on his achievements before presenting him with a bouquet. Prof. SR Choudhury presented him a plaque on behalf of Delhi IAPS after speaking a few words about him including his culinary skills , a secret known to few..A video on his long journey of 47½ years at AIIMS from an undergraduate to retirement as Prof and HOD was shown by Prof Sandeep Agarwala on the occasion. Prof Mohta, Dr. Anjan Dhua, Dr.Bibek Jindal also expressed their appreciation. Prof Bhatnagar then spoke about his years at AIIMS, gave advice to the younger generation and conveyed his thanks.

This year Delhi IAPS lost some very Senior and dear members: Dr. John Rattan , followed by Prof BD Dwivedi and Prof. Shalini Agrawal. Our regards and homage to them. May their soul rest in Eternal peace.

Dr. Chiranjiv and Dr. Shalu Shah joined the Deptt of Pediatric Surgery at MAMC and RML respectively as AP’s.

New Members who joined the Delhi IAPS Chapter are Dr. Chiranjiv , Dr. Vaibhav Garg. , Dr. Amit Gupta and Dr. Apurva.

 Pediatric Surgery Awareness week was celebrated from 11th to 18th Nov 18 with gusto in various Hospitals across the city, report of which was sent earlier.

At the end ,                         I WISH YOU ALL AND YOUR FAMILIES A VERY HAPPY 2019’.

                                    May the New Year bring with it good cheer and tidings for all and 

                              May we all do our bit towards the children of the Nation to our best abilities.

Regards,  

Anju Gambhir

May 2018

Dear All,

A Very successful Delhi IAPS meeting cum CME was held at KSCH on the 5th of May 2018 . For the first time a training session on MIS was conducted, starting at 10.30 am and continuing till 1.30 pm. It was well attended and was interactive along with some Hands on experience for the 12 attendees who along with the trainers  later recd certificates for the same. Prof SR Choudhury and his team had organised it well. Kudos to their maiden effort and hope that in future we would see more such events in Delhi IAPS.
This was followed by 4 presentations on diverse topics ( Already detailed in previous mail) by the post graduates of the Department , with 2 presentations chaired by Prof Veereshwar Bhatnagar and 2 by  Dr Shalini Agrawal. A healthy discussion followed each talk.
I am attaching few  glimpses of the workshop and meeting

A GBM followed the meeting. Shall write about it in detail in the succeeding mail.

 Kind Regards

Anju Gambhir

May 2018 GBM

 Dear All,

As mentioned in the preceding mail, CME was held at KSCH on the 5th of May 2018. It was followed by a GBM. Various issues were discussed in a gathering of over 50 members which included PG’s.  Prof D.K Gupta and Dr. Rakesh Handa had conveyed their regrets  

1 ) A schedule for next three meetings of this year was finalized.

   Accordingly, the next meeting would be on 28th July at AIIMS and as informed earlier , it will coincide with superannuation of Professor D.K. Gupta. It is proposed to have a CME on esophageal replacement, a favorite topic of Professor D.K Gupta.

Dr. Pinaki had sent in a request for the annual meet of the year to be held at RML this year. It was agreed by all and scheduled for early September.

The last meeting of the year proposed by Dr. Satish Agarwal would be held at Gangaram Hospital in November

Prof YK Sarin had mailed a request to hold the annual meeting of 2019 at MAMC.

 Next year would mark 2 decades of formal organisation of Delhi chapter that happened in MAMC in 1999. I informed the house about it but it was decided to finalize it at the annual meet at RML in Sept 2018 .

2 )   I did not receive any cheque book or bank paper from the previous secretary Dr. Devendra  Yadav . He informed the house that the bank account was in a bank at MAMC and the signatories were Prof Anoop Mohta and Dr. Chabi Ranoo Gupta, as told to him on each occasion that he visited the bank. It was decided that he would get an authority letter signed by them/ ask them to sign in the bank relinquishing their signatures in favor of present president and secretary.

3 ) The issue of bank came up because it was proposed to get  the Delhi IAPS association registered  For this an address and a PAN card are required.  Prof. V Bhatnagar suggested that Dr. Devendra Yadav should check with the AO at AIIMS if we could get a room for office for IAPS Delhi at AIIMS. Registration should follow once these entire issues are cleared.

 We are presently working on these already.

4 ) The next agenda was setting up a separate website for IAPS Delhi. Since it entails a lot of digital work daily and a devoted web master and also because lot of finance is required to set up the site it was proposed that we could request Dr Prakash, Secretary of National IAPS to give us a page in the National Newsletter of IAPS. I wrote to him and have received a quick  reply confirming that they would accommodate us.  He wrote to Dr. Ravi Kanojia who also kindly responded instantly in the affirmative.

I will attach the mails recd. from them for your kind perusal. In accordance, all members can send in any information they want displayed on the national website.

Hope to see you all in July

Kind regards

Dr Anju Gambhir

Chairperson -  Dr Shilpa sharma  ; Secretary - Dr Anju Gambhir

EC members- Rakesh Bhargava, Akshay Pratap, Simmi Rattan, Manu Arora, Niyaz Ahmed.

July 2019

  TODAY ON KARGIL DAY I PAY MY HOMAGE TO THE MARTYRS WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES AND OUR FORCES WHO FOUGHT 20 YEARS AGO TO KEEP THE FLAG OF INDIA FLYING HIGH
Dear All,

A meeting of Delhi Chapter of IAPS was held at Super Specialty Hospital and Post Graduate Teaching Institute at Sector 30 NOIDA on the 20th of July 2019. Despite the Inclement weather and road jams that it caused, it was attended by nearly 50 Paediatric Surgeons of Delhi and NCR.

The hospital started in 2015 is a Paediatric Super Specialty Hospital with Prof DK Gupta at the helm as Director since August 2018.

Under his able and experienced guidance, the Department of Paediatric Surgery is already gaining in leaps and bounds and will surely attain great heights very soon.

The meeting was preceded by a sumptuous lunch and the Academic content discussed on a Satiated Pate, invigorated and fed the gray matter also. The excellent presentations were a mixed bag of various topics as outlined below.

Scientific Program 

1 Welcome to SSPH&PGTI                                                   Prof. D.K. Gupta, Director SSPH&PGTI 

2 Introduction  to SSPH&PGTI                                              Dr. Pramod K Sharma (Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Paediatric Surgery. SSPH&PGTI) 

3 Establishing a new Paeditric Surgery department             Dr. Sugandh (SR. Dept. of Paediatric Surgery SSPH&PGTI) 

 4 A case of Abernathy syndrome                                          Dr. Nirpex Tyagi (SR. Dept. of Paediatric Surgery. SSPH&PGTI) 

 5.TEF with Pulmonary Agenesis: A Rare Case.                    Dr. Neel Aggerwal (Assistant Professor ,Paediatric Surgery SSPH & PGTI)

 6 Evolution of safe peadiatric  Anaesthesia                          Dr. Poonam Motiani (Assoc. Prof. Dept. of Paediatric Anesthesia SSPH&PGTI) 

 Following this,  Announcements were made regarding the future meetings and various other issues.

The next meeting of Delhi Chapter of IAPS is proposed to be held at RR Hospital on the 21st of Sep 2019. It would be clubbed with a CME on Esophageal replacement scheduled for the 21st and 22nd of Sep2019. On behalf of RR Hospital, Gen Bipin Puri and Col Ravi Patcharu extended an invitation to all Paediatric surgeons of the Delhi Chapter to come for the whole event for 2 days.

The Annual meeting is proposed to be held at MAMC and LNJPN Hospital at the end of the 2nd week of November. It would mark 20 years of inception of Delhi Chapter of IAPS Delhi which was started from there.

Dr. SR Choudhury would complete his 2 year tenure as President of IAPS Delhi Chapter. This was informed to the house. I will post the nomination forms shortly for election of the new President

The matter of Rs 7000/- lying with Dr. Devendra Yadav since the time he was secretary came up. Prof DK Gupta suggested that the President and secretary discuss this with him separately and settle the issue.

Following this all dispersed after high tea.

Shall keep you informed of forthcoming meets soon.

My Regards to all

 Anju Gambhir

Dear All,

 IAPS Delhi Chapter held its latest meeting on 21st and 22nd of September 2019 in association with RR Hospital at Manekshaw Centre as part of a CME in Pediatric Surgery organized by them, the theme being “Pediatric Esophageal Disorders”. It was an excellently organized and well attended CME Which started at 9.30 Am on the 21st and got over after lunch on the 22nd. Over sixty Pediatric Surgeons participated in addition to surgeons and other doctors from the three wings of the armed forces. The details of the CME are as given below.

CME- PEDIATRIC ESOPHAGEAL DISORDERS

ARMY HOSP(R&R) 21-22 Sep 2019

21 Sep 2019

Anesthesia and critical care

Chairpersons:

Brig Shivinder Singh

Brig DK Sreevastava

 0930h-1015h

“Is that arterial line really needed? .. and much more”….the Anesthetists concerns and Surgeons’ impatience

Lt Col Badal Parikh, Pediatric Anesthesiologist

“The first post op day”

Lt Col AK Simalti, Pediatric Intensivist

As warm as it can.. In the  NICU

Lt Col Ashutosh Kumar, Neonatologist

Gastroenterology

 1030h-1200h

Too narrow to swallow…stricture management

Brig S Thareja, Gastroenterologist

Chairperson: Brig MM Harjai,Col Rakesh Handa

Don’t have the nerve? Motility disorders

Brig PK Sharma, Gastroenterologist

Chairperson: Brig MM Harjai,Col Rakesh Handa

Don’t put that in your mouth!!..Foreign bodies

Lt Col Atul Jha, Gastroenterologist

Chairperson: Brig MM Harjai,Col Rakesh Handa

Travails of a return flight.. the Gastro Esophageal Reflux

Lt Col SK Singh, Gastroenterologist

Chairperson: Brig KK Maudar, Col Sanjay Sharma

Cut it, wrap it… how to deal with a lazy esophagus

Dr Vishesh Jain, AIIMS, New Delhi

Chairperson: Brig KK Maudar, Col Sanjay Sharma

Minimally invasive surgery

Chairperson:

Maj Gen Ravi Kale

Brig SC Dash,YSM,VSM

1200h-1230h

I do it looking at the screen…the minimal access approach

Dr Ravi Kanojia, PGIMER, Chandigarh

Minimal access in neonates… my concerns

Col Amit Rai, Pediatric Anesthesiologist

Lunch

1300h-1400h

Inauguration

1415

1430

1440

1450

1520

Lamp lighting

Welcome address by Comdt

Inaugural address: DGAFMS

Felicitation of teachers

Vote of thanks :Col Karunesh Chand

Lt Gen Gautam Ravindranath oration

1520

1530

1555

Introduction to oration: Maj Gen Ravi Kale

Oration Prof KLN Rao

Felicitating Prof KLN Rao by DGAFMS

Tea

1600-1630h

Esophageal replacement

Chairpersons:

Prof SR Choudhary

Dr Amita Sen

Dr YK Sarin

1630h-1730h

This one or that one? The options

Speaker:Dr Anjan Dhua, AIIMS

How it is done

Dr Satish Aggarwal: Gastric tube

Dr Prabudh Goel: Isoperistaltic gastric tube

Dr Sandeep Agarwala: Colon interposition

Dr Prema Menon: Reverse gastric tube

Panel discussion

 Moderators:

Maj Gen Manu Arora

Col Karunesh Chand

1730h-1830h

1.Prof DK Gupta

 Director, Superspecialty Pediatric Hospital& Post Graduate Training Institute, Noida; former HoD Ped Surg, AIIMS

2.Prof KLN Rao

 former HoD Pediatric Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh

3.Prof V Bhatnagar

Dean Research and Professor Pediatric Surgery, Sharda University, former HoD, Ped Surg, AIIMS

4.Prof Ram Samujh

HoD, Pediatric Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh

5. Prof M Bajpai, HoD Pediatric Surgery, AIIMS

Banquet

Manekshaw centre

22 Sep 2019

Esophageal Atresia and Tracheo esophageal fistula

 0930h-1230h

Who’s on call? It’s a TEF!

Dr Aparajita Mitra, AIIMS

Chairperson: Prof V Bhatnagar, Lt Col Naveen Chandra, Lt Col Kamal Kishore

 Shift the case to the OT now!!

Lt Col Gunjan Singh, Pediatric Anesthesiologist

Chairperson: Prof V Bhatnagar, Lt Col Naveen Chandra, Lt Col Kamal Kishore

 Scalpel to suture.. the way I do it

Prof Sandeep Agarwala, AIIMS

Chairperson: Prof V Bhatnagar, Lt Col Naveen Chandra, Lt Col Kamal Kishore

 Did you miss placing the ICD? An RCT

Col JS Randhawa, INHS Asvini

Chairperson: Maj Gen Ravi Kale, Lt Col Shantanu Singha, Lt Col Vinod Kr MS

 “Cant get them together?  stretch them.”..the lengthening procedures

Dr Vikram Khanna,LHMC

Chairperson: Maj Gen Ravi Kale, Lt Col Shantanu Singha, Lt Col Vinod Kr MS

 “Not again!!“ The recurrence

Prof YK Sarin, MAMC

Chairperson: Maj Gen Ravi Kale, Lt Col Shantanu Singha, Lt Col Vinod Kr MS

 What can go wrong

Col Shankar Raman, CH(SC)

Chairperson:Dr Simmi Ratan, Dr Anju Gambhir

 Is it time to change? … The newer modalities

Dr Shilpa Sharma, AIIMS

Chairperson:Dr Simmi Ratan, Dr Anju Gambhir

 Esophageal anastomotic index : Is it a new surveillance tool in survivors of esophagealatresia and TEF

Dr Archana Puri, LHMC

Chairperson:Dr Simmi Ratan, Dr Anju Gambhir

 What happens in the first year after surgery?

Lt Col Santosh Dey

Chairperson:Dr Simmi Ratan, Dr Anju Gambhir

 The hosts felicitated following Senior Pediatric Surgeons for their contribution to the field of Pediatric Surgery :

 Prof KLN Rao, Prof DK Gupta, Prof V Bhatnagar, Prof M Bajpai, Prof Ram Samujh, Prof SK Mitra  (In absentia), Prof KL Narasimhan (In absentia)

A GBM was held on 21st evening at the end of the academic session for the day.

As per agenda circulated earlier, few issues were discussed.

1.     Following call for nomination for the post of President of Delhi Chapter of IAPS for the years 2020-21, two nominations were received, that of Prof Yogesh Sarin and Dr. Shilpa Sharma, and there was no withdrawal. As per prior intimation in three consecutive mails, an election was conducted without any objection from anyone for doing the same in this meeting. The returning officer Prof Simmi Rattan supervised the counting of votes in the presence of two nominees, one each of both candidates. Dr. Shilpa was declared elected after the counting was completed.

2.     Five executive members were nominated after their names were proposed and seconded by the house :   Maj Gen Manu Arora, Prof Simmi Rattan, Dr.Pratap Singh Yadav, Dr Niyaz  Ahmad Khan.  Dr. Rakesh Bhargava’s  had already been received on prior proposal and secondment.

3.     The theme for this year’s Pediatric Surgery week scheduled to be held from11th to 17th of November was decided by consensus and following themes were finalized :

(i). Meningomyelocele and Hydrocephalus

(ii) Child Sexual Abuse

Request you all to start planning for the same in your respective institutes.

4.     Last but not the least, date for annual conference of Delhi Chapter was enquired from Prof Sarin since this year it is scheduled to be held at MAMC. He said he would confirm the date shortly. I shall intimate it to you soon as I receive it.

Received some photos from RR which I am forwarding as attachments.

In the end I would once again like to thank the RR team of Col Karunesh, Col. Monal and Col Ravi on behalf of all of us for organizing such a wonderful CME.

The Sumptuous Academic feast which had a delectable nomenclature was complimented by excellent hospitality by the hosts which included a Banquet and accompanying Military Band in the evening of 21st Sep.

Will be updating you soon on annual conference and Pediatric Surgery awareness week as and when I get further information.

Festival season is beginning. Enjoy the Navratras, Dandiya and much more to follow.

Regards

Anju Gambhir