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Physician nominated to international panels

By T.V. Sivanandan

GULBARGA Oct. 17. P.S. Shankar, a physician of international repute, has been nominated as a member of the international advisory board to organise the celebrations of the golden jubilee of the publication of Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine.

The Dean and Principal of the Mumbai-based Somaiyya Medical College and Hospital, Dr. Shankar is among a select group of doctors from 20 countries who have been nominated to the board.

He has also been appointed to the international advisory board of the University of Seychelles and the American Institute of Medicine to oversee the courses offered for undergraduate students. He has also been appointed Honorary Dean of postgraduate programmes of the university.

Dr. Shankar, who is the Editor of the Medical Update Journal, has been appointed convenor of the committee to prepare the syllabus for the postgraduate courses of the University of Seychelles. He has been given the responsibility of preparing the syllabus for 12 subjects.

Dr. Shankar has written more than 100 medical books in Kannada and English. He believes that local languages should be used by teachers in professional courses, particularly medicine.

Incidentally, the first medical encyclopaedia in Kannada, published by the Kannada University, Hampi, was the monumental work of Dr. Shankar. He took three years to complete the daunting task of collecting details to bring out the 24-chapter encyclopaedia. Dr. Shankar, who has won the prestigious Dr. B.C. Roy Award for Eminent Medical Teacher in Medicine in 1985 and 1989, was here on a personal visit.

He told The Hindu here on Thursday that the medical encyclopaedia brought out in 1995 had become outdated and required immediate revision. Facilities for treating patients with complicated diseases had been developed, and these should be included in the encyclopaedia, he said. There were new developments in efforts to find a cure for AIDS, and new and simpler drugs had been developed, he added. The university has entrusted the responsibility of bringing out one of the volumes of the "History of Science" to Dr. Shankar. He will also be preparing a volume on "History of Medicines".

Dr. Shankar has been appointed chairman of a symposium on "New infections in the new millennium" at the National Conference of Chest Diseases to be held in Jaipur on November 22. Well-known professionals in the field, including the Editor of the American Review of Respiratory Diseases, and the Chief of the American Thoracic Society will participate.

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