July 2018

e - newsletter

Indian Radiological &
Imaging Association

IRIA e-Newsletter July 2018 President: Dr Kunnumel Mohanan

No.: 16 Secretary: Dr. C. Amarnath

Editors: Dr Ramesh S. Shenoy, Dr. Murali Krishna L

DrEditors Messages Ramesh S. Shenoy IRIA House, C-5, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi-110016
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E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www.iria.in

Important announcement
This year, we are introducing academic activities/
announcements as well as reports/photographs of all
radiology programs. These need not be IRIA programs.
The announcements, reports & photographs may be
sent to [email protected] &
[email protected]. All the academics programs
has to be for radiologists only.
For sending the reports for newsletter,
1. The reports should be in MS Word format only.
2. Photos should be in jpeg format seperatly as
attachment
3. All other formats will not be included in the news
letter

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Presidents page Dear Members,

At the outset, I thank all the Office Bearers of IRIA, ICRI, IJRI,
SSS and Central Council members who attended the Central
Council Meeting held on 22nd July, 2018 at IRIA House, New
Delhi. I am happy to inform that there was a maximum
participation of 125 Central Council Members in this meeting,
which is historic and reflects the great enthusiasm and
dedication amongst the Central Council members and it is a
good sign for any organization for its upliftment. Let us march
together for a great future.

It was great to be a part of the inauguration team in the
renaming of Conference Hall in the name of great inspiring
leader Dr. Sudarshan Aggarwal. All important agenda
pertaining to functioning of IRIA were approved. Each and
every member actively participated in the deliberations. Fetal
Radiology CME is spreading like wild fire. Strategic decisions
on PC & PNDT are made. FORA is born and all Radiology
subspecialties will work together. The Asian Radiology
Summit has been approved. Annual Ultrasound Conference is
also approved by the Central Council. Raksha project is
gaining momentum.

This is a matter of great pleasure and satisfaction that the first
workshop of ‘Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging’,
“Publishing Radiology Manuscript: A Primer’’, was organized
by IJRI on 21st July, 2018 at IRIA House, New Delhi which
was a great success and attended by 150 registered
delegates including Central Council Members. I take this
opportunity congratulate Dr. Brig. Chander Mohan, Editor–in-
Chief, IJRI and his entire team for this initiative.

Presidents page The elections of office bearers of IRIA, IJRI and ICRI are on
and I request all the eligible candidates to observe the code of
conduct as per constitution of the association.

As decided in the Central Council meeting, a ‘Profession
Protection Fund’ (PPF) has been formed to safeguard our
profession and fighting our cases pertaining to PC & PNDT
matters in High Courts and Supreme Court of India. I appeal
all the state chapters of IRIA and Office Bearers and
members to come forward and contribute generously for this
cause which concerns all of us.

Members are requested to feel free to contact me any time on
the issues pertaining to our association.

Long Live IRIA!

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Mohanan K.
President, IRIA

Gen. Secretary's notes Dear Members,

Seasons’ Greetings!

I take this opportunity to thank all the members for your active
participation in the Central Council Meeting held on 22nd July,
2018. There was a record attendance of 125 Central Council
members in this meeting. We hope that you would continue
this in future also and serve the association in more organized
manner. I would like to inform you that the November Central
Council Meeting would be held on 11th November, 2018 at
IRIA House, New Delhi. You are requested to kindly mark
your calendar and plan your visit to attend this meeting.

I am pleased to inform you that the first workshop of ‘Indian
Journal of Radiology & Imaging’, “Publishing Radiology
Manuscript: A Primer’’, was organized by IJRI and IRIA on
21st July, 2018 at IRIA House, New Delhi which was a great
success. During the workshop, basic aspects of preparing a
paper for publication were discussed to encourage and train
participants to submit their research papers for publication.
Entire program was based on “Resident-oriented” modules.
The highlights included Ethics in publishing, CARE guidelines,
writing review articles, How to frame the research question
and Basic Statistics and analysis of results. Panel Discussion
was on “Why does my article get rejected!” which proved very
educative. There was a live webcast of this Workshop. This
Workshop was attended by 150 registered delegates
including Central Council Members. I congratulate Dr. Brig.
Chander Mohan, Editor–in-Chief, IJRI and his team for this
initiative.

Gen. Secretary's notes The Central Council has approved to form a ‘Profession
Protection Fund’ (PPF) in order to safeguard our profession
and fighting our cases in High Courts and Hon’ble Supreme
Court of India. I appeal all the members, officer bearers and
state chapters of IRIA to come forward and contribute
generously for this cause which concerns all of us.

The following recommendations of the PC & PNDTCommittee
meeting have been approved by the Central Council:

1. Only qualified Radiologists having degree/diploma in
Radio-diagnosis alone need to be permitted to do Ultrasound
as per PC & PNDT Act and this stand should be reitrated by
IRIA.

2. On violation of the 2014 amendment of the PC & PNDT Act
regarding Six Month Training Course, which was upheld by
the Supreme Court should be fought locally by the state
chapters as it is done recently Tamilnadu state chapter of
IRIA.

3. If any state chapter wants to intervene on our SLP in
Supreme Court, they can do by supporting the IRIA HQ only.

4. The IRIA stand that the minor offences like clerical errors
which are of civil nature which are now attracting criminal
punishment should be deleted from the rules. For this we
have been trying at our level best in various fora.

The next hearing of our SLP in Hon’ble Supreme Court of
India is expected on 3rd August. We shall update the
members about the same.

Gen. Secretary's notes All the members are requested to follow the PC & PNDT Act
strictly as it is law of the land.

I am glad to inform all the members that a Forum of
Radiological Sub-specialty Associations (FORA) has been
formed by IRIA, which was approved by the Central Council.
IRIA being the parent body of all the Radiologist Associations
will act as an Umbrella under which all the eligible sub-
specialty Radiology organizations will co-exist as independent
association under the banner of FORA. The eligibility of the
association to become a member of FORA is that all its full
time active members should be Radiologists only.

With warm regards,

Yours sincerely,

Dr. C. Amarnath
Secretary General, IRIA

Upcoming events National IRIA Fetal Radiology Conference
2018 @ Kochi - www.fetalradiology.in

State Conference APIRIA, 27, 28 & 29th
July 2018

Oncoimaging & Intervention 2018, 27th
May, New Delhi

CCM & IJRI

CCM & IJRI

Workshop on 22nd Sep, 2018 at IMA House,
Kochi visit www.fetalradiology.in

Fetal Radiology Kochi

Conference on 23rd Sep, 2018 at Grand Hyatt,
Kochi visit www.fetalradiology.in

Fetal Radiology Kochi

Kerala Chapter Kerala Governments Best Doctor
Award for 2018

Dr V. Rajendran (Prof.
In Radiology & Principal

of Kozhikode Medical
College) receiving the
Best Doctor Award from
the Kerala State Health
Minister Mrs Shailaja on

1st July 2018

Tamilnadu & Pondicherry Chapter JUNE 2018 ACTIVITIES – TAMILNADU & PONDICHERRY
CHAPTER OF IRIA

FIFTH MONTHLY MEET OF TAMILNADU AND
PONDICHERRY CHAPTER OF INDIAN RADIOLOGICAL
AND IMAGING ASSOCIATION AND SOUTH ZONE CME
HOSTED BY TRICHY SUBCHAPTER OF TNPYIRIA HELD
ON FETAL CNS IMAGING AT HOTEL LE TEMPS FORTE,
SALAI ROAD, TRICHY ON 10TH JUNE SUNDAY 08:30 AM
TO 02:00 PM.
It was well attended by 60 + delegates. CME was Chaired by
Dr. T. Mukuntharajan and Dr.S Babupeter Fantastic Faculties
Presentations on above CME theme by Dr.Bhuvaneswari, Dr.
S. Shanmugam, Dr. Jayaraman & Dr. Bavaharan And Final
interesting Panel discussion on Fetal CNS anomalies – How
to go about Panelists by Dr. Sudha Rama Krishnan, Dr.
Malathy Prasad, Dr. Esakkiammal and Dr. Bhuvaneswari.
Moderated by Dr. Sridevi and Dr. Bavaharan was well
received by delegates and was well Co-ordinated by Dr. G.
RAMALINGAM President, DR. ESAKIAMMAL VicePresident,
Dr. R. SRIDEVI, Secretary & Dr. Siddique,Treasurer Trichy
subchapter of TN&PY IRIA .

Members of the region appreciated the gesture of State office
by honouring our Senior Radiologists of the region Dr. V. R.
LAKSHMI NARAYANAN, DR. G. RAMALINGAM, Dr. B. R.
RAMADAS, Dr. S. SIVAKUMAR and Dr. MAZHARUNNISA
BEGUM.
Resident presentations were judged and three best
Presentations were awarded by Prof. Vinayagam , Prof. N.
Kailasanathan and Prof. R. Kanagasabai. FIRST prize
awarded to Dr. Shameena, Meenakshi Mission Hospital,
Madurai : Topic : Interventional Radiology in
FetalAnaemia.SECOND prize to Dr. Harish, BIR, MMC. An
unusual cause of hip pain..its a bloody tale.THIRD Prize to
Dr. Joshua Anand, CMC Vellore : Live (r) and let die.

Tamilnadu & Pondicherry Chapter Two other presenters were handed over certificates of
Participation with word of appreciation.Dr.LinuOommen
Varghese, CMC Vellore : Cheerful heart,a good medicine.
Dr. Manoj, BIR MMC:From the depths of Deep vein
thrombosis.

Meeting ended with State Secretary thanking state &
subchapter office bearers, Faculties &Panelists , delegates
and Sponsor M/s Mindray and followed by Second
Executive Council Meeting in post lunch session

Following lunch, Second Executive Council Meeting
deliberated on the Legal course aftermath of Hon. Supreme
interim Judgement dated 14.03.2018, Committee
announcements , Auditor Appointments and accounts of
TNPY IRIA, Membership drive etc. Meeting ended with vote of
thanks by State Secretary.

The Third Monthly Meet of Chennai Sub chapter of TNPY
IRIA held at Hotel Green Park on 24th of June, 2018 at 2-6
pm. Invited Lectures on an interesting Theme of
"Rebiopsy"preceded by Lunch from 1pm and welcome
addressed by Dr .D. Ramesh, Secretary, TN & PY IRIA
inviting Faculties, Members, Chairpersons Dr. M. Sivalingam
and Dr. V. Senthil.
Dr. Sankar Srinivasan, Consultant Medical Oncologist at
Apollo Hospital, Chennai spoke on "Tissue biopsy – The
Gold Standard after negative ctDNA". Dr. Shivakumarswamy
, Consultant Radiologist , HCG Cancer hospital , Bangalore,
followed with "Tissue biopsy in progressed NSCLC patient:
possible or not?". This was followed by a scintillating Panel
Discussion. . Moderated by Dr. Deepashree, Gleneagles
Global., Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Global Health
City along with Dr. Anita Ramesh, Medical Oncologist,

Tamilnadu & Pondicherry Chapter Following High Tea, PG presentations were judged and
awarded best three prizes by Prof. N.
Kailasanathan,Prof.M.Sivalingam and Prof. R. Kanagasabai.
Meeting ended with vote of thanks by Dr.S. Arun Dilip State
Joint Secretary .

As the announcement for Competency Based Test for
Wrongly implemented PCPNDT trainee about 550 in 2015-
2016 as per DIRECTOR PCPNDT, GOI directive to state
PCPNDT authories. Legal Committee and State office bearers
had multiple meetings with legal advisors of TNPY IRIA for
legal course and with state officials for diplomatic solutions to
curb this unlawful Wrong implemented PCPNDT Training
Rules-2104 in TNPY IRIA region.

Madhya Pradesh Chapter Dr. Harnamsingh CME was organized on 7-8th July at Hotel
Marriott Indore. The topic was Genito-Urinary imaging. About
30 Speakers delivered Lectures. About 220 Participants
attended CME. About 15 PG student presented Papers &
poster. Dr N. G. Gadkar oration was awarded to Dr. Atin
Kumar Delhi.
In Inauguration on Saturday 7th July 2018 welcome address
given By Dr. Santosh Gandhi MP state President & State
coordinator Dr. R. K. Sodani. IRIA National president Dr.
Mohanan K & ICRI Chairmen Dr. Jayaraj Govindaraj
addressed the audience. Secretary-General of IRIA Dr C
Amarnath & Hon. Secretary of ICRI Dr Vara Prasad, Past
President Dr O P Bansal, State Coordinator Dr O P Tiwari &
National scientific coordinator for CME Dr Raju Sharma Delhi
were present. Dr. Harshad Shah was Guest of Honour. The
vote of Thanks given by IRIA MP State Secretary Dr.
Durgesh Rathi.

In this CME Raksha Plan of IRIA was launched for Madhya
Pradesh on Sunday 8th July by National Coordinator Dr.
Sona Pungaonkar. State coordinator Dr. Shweta Nagar, Dr.
Nikita Benjamin, Dr. Kumud Julka & PG coordinator Dr.
Varsha Sodani explain that in first phase about 30 Sanitary
Pad dispensing machine will be installed in Govt. Girls school
in Indore region. Soon similar machines will be installed in
another part of Madhya Pradesh. On this occasion Chief
Medical & Health officer of Indore Divison Dr H. N. Naik was
guest of honour. MP voluntary Health organization Director
Shri Mukesh Sinha, PC-PNDT Nodal Officer Shri Satish Joshi
& PC-PNDT Member Dr Mrs. P. Y. Pandey, Journalist Miss
Neeta Sisodiya were present & felicitated.

Delhi Chapter Monthly meeting of Delhi State Chapter of IRIA was
Organized on 23 June 2018 at Mata Chanan Devi
Hospital, Delhi. The theme of this meeting was
SonoElastography. This meeting was attended by 45 IRIA
members. President : Dr Prakash Lalchandani welcomed
all IRIA members and felicitated Guests : Mr RN Rai and
Dr AC Shukla.
The highlight of this meeting was lectures by Dr Subhash
Narang (An Overview of SonoElastography) and Dr
Akshay Kapila (Prostate SonoElastography). Four
Residents presented papers and judges for this
competition were Dr Sunil Kakar and Dr Anil Taneja. Dr
Sana was awarded First Prize in Paper Presentation
Competition and She was felicitated by Dr OP Bansal and
Dr Lalendra Upreti. Dr Prakash Lalchandani and Dr
Sudhir Gupta felicitated speakers : Dr Subhash Narang
and Dr Akshay Kapila. Dr Raghav Aggarwal, Dr Shalini
Thapar, Dr Sanjeev Sachdeva and Dr Ajit Kumar
felicitated paper presenters : Dr Sana, Dr Ankit Dubey, Dr
Leena and Dr Priyanka. Vote of thanks was given by Dr
Pankaj Sharma.

Delhi Chapter

Karnataka Chapter IRIA Karnataka
State Chapter as
active during the
June Month &
conducted
Monthly meeting
in KSCA
Bangalore which
is well attended
by 160
Radiology
Residents &
Radiologists.
Guest Lectures
were given by Dr.
Srikanth & Dr
Seema J on Wrist
& Shoulder Joint
Imaging along
with Interesting
case presentation
by Post
Graduates. CME
in Foetal
Radiology will be
held on 21 & 22
August in
association KIEF

MSBIRIA MSBIRIA had 3 major events in June. Thane, Nagpur and
PCMC.

Thane Fetal CME update was held at Hotel Fortune, on the 16
and 17th of June 2018. The meeting was attended by more than
200 delegates. The scientific programme constituted a great
workshop on foetal medicine telecast from Jupiter hospital
Radiology department. Topics like foetal neurosonography
were covered extensively in addition to NT and anomaly scans.
The theme of the CME was small capsules on day to day
obstetric problems and findings which were delivered precisely
by all the faculty. Dr TLN Praveen, Dr Nitin Chaubal, Dr Jyoti
Chaubal, Dr Rajas Chaubal, Dr Mohit Shah, Dr Bimal Sahani,
Dr Kenjale, Dr Aniruddha Kulkarni, Dr Alpana Joshi, Dr Swati
Pawar, Dr Akshay Sarda, Dr Muktachand Rokade, Dr Mrudula
Bapat and Dr Nikhil Joshi were speakers for the event. Special
thanks to Dr Nitin Chaubal Sir for working out the idea of
covering topics in the form of concise capsules. Dr Nitin
Chaubal, Dr TLN Praveen, Dr Jyoti Chaubal, Dr Bimal, Dr
Rokade and Dr Kenjale demonstrated excellent technique &tips
during the workshop.

MINDRAY Sonoupdate CME was conducted at PCMC on 24
June 2018.Dr TLN Pravin & Dr Ashwin Lavande were speakers.
The CME was well attended by 150 delegates around. DC-80
Mindray Ultrasound machine was launched in presence of guest
of honour’s. MSBIRIA secretary Dr Aniruddha Kulkarni
introduced MSBIRA app to delegates and explained its
importance in coming years including eVoting through
App. PCMC chapter and MSBIRIA announced first of its kind
upcoming event “WWW@2018 “ – WOMEN’S imaging
conference arranged by females of MSBIRIA having exclusive
female faculties across country.

MSBIRIA The event is planned at Grand Sheraton Pune ( 20-21 oct
2018 ) PCMC appropriate authorities and office conducted
session on Recent updates in PCPNDT , which was
appreciated by knowledgeable crowd

CME and Installation Report of CME and Workshop on Breast
Imaging

On same day (24 June 2018) in Nagpur, Installation ceremony
was conducted of Vidarbha chapter of MSBIRIA. The meeting
was graced by President of MSBIRIA Dr Sandeep Kawthale&
IRIA Dr Mohanan K .Dr Ravi Alurwar and Dr Amit Disawal
were installed as President and Secretary along with new team
of Vidarbha Radiology Association

The ceremony was part of the grand CME of the chapter on
breast Imaging. Dr Varsha Hardas and Dr Shilpa Lad were
faculties for the Breast imaging sessions. The CME was well
attended by radiologists more than 300 from region.During
Installation two senior radiologists Dr Ambhore and Dr Suresh
Mude of Vidarbha region were also felicitated

MSBIRIA

AOSPR 2018 AOSPR 2018
18th Annual Meeting of AOSPR (Asian Oceanic Society of
Pediatric Radiology) combined with 16th Annual meeting of
Indian Society of Paediatric Radiology is scheduled
from September 14-16,2018 at PGIMER, Chandigarh,India

Highlights
Workshops on Pediatric Ultrasound (Hips and Brain)
Workshops on Pediatric MRI
Session on Cardiac Imaging by American Institute for
Radiologic Pathology (AIRP)
Session by World Federation of Pediatric Imaging (WFPI)
Session on International Pediatric Radiology Fellowships
12 CME Hours by Punjab Medical Council

You can log on to the conference website for details:
www.aospr2018.com.
Feel free to contact us at : [email protected]
Warm regards,

Organizing Team
AOSPR 2018
PGIMER,Chandigarh