PGI doc awarded for new surgical technique

Chandigarh: Dr Jaspreet Sukhija, assistant professor at Advanced Eye Centre, PGI, Chandigarh, was conferred the prestigious Prof Hanumantha Reddy Award at the recently concluded annual conference of the Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at Pushkar, Rajasthan. The award has been given for developing a new surgical procedure in patients with complex type of squint (Duane Retraction Syndrome). This condition is usually present since birth and is complicated by miswiring of the muscles of the eye causing some eye muscles to contract when they shouldn’t and other eye muscles not to contract when they should, resulting in abnormal movements of the eye and deviation. There is associated limitation of outward and sometimes inward movement of the eye. The eye becomes smaller when it moves inward. The new surgical procedure for this condition is technically easier and faster and takes about 8-10 minutes. With this single procedure, the eyes become straight and the patient is relieved of the abnormal movements. Dr Jaspreet has performed many such procedures in collaboration with Dr Usha Singh, the technique and results of which have been published in the American Journal of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.

Honour for GMCH-32 doc

Dr Kiran Prakash, demonstrator, Department of Physiology, Government Medical College & Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, has been awarded with the Conference Award for the best free paper presentation for research in the field of the physiology contribution to Clinical Medicine. She was honoured at the national conference of the Association of Physiologists of India held at the Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry. Her research work was on the correlation among endothelial functions of cerebral and systemic circulation and insulin resistance in diabetic patients. Assessment of endothelial function is an emerging tool for predicting the risk of stroke and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in at risk individuals. She also applied the corrections for much improved assessment of endothelial functions and better identification of at-risk individuals. — TNS