Awards and Honours

Smt.Sudarsa.K Ward Sister-B , NeuroSurgery ICU , who has received the prestigious "National Florance Nightingale Award" by the honourable President of India.
Dr. K. Radhakrishnan our Director, received the prestigious "Asian and Oceanian Outstanding Achievement Epilepsy Award" by the Commission on Asian and Oceanian Affairs (CAOA) of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE).
Dr. Shashidhar K P Senior Resident , Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department who has Won the "Ist Best Poster Award " during the INDOVASC 2012 Held at Bangalore on 23rd to 25th March 2012.
Dr. Shunmugha Sundaram & Dr. Kiron s Senior Residents , Cardiology Department who has Won the "Ist Prize in Echo Quiz " during the 3rd Annual Conference of Indian College of Cardiology Held at Kozhicode.
Dr. Anil Kumar P.R Scientist 'C', Division of Implant Biology, BMT Wing who has received "The SAB Young Bioengineer Award 2011" by the Society of Applied Biotechnology (SAB) during the Second National Conference on Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering held at Kolhapur on 24th and 25th February 2012.
Dr. Thomas Koshy Professor,Anesthesiology has been Awarded Honarary IACTA Fellowship Award (FIACTA) and Honarary Transesophageal Echocardiography Fellowship By Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesiologists (IACTA).
Dr.C.Kesavadas Additional Professor of Radiology, Department of Imaging Sciences & Interventional Radiology was awarded the Dr.M.L.Aggarwal Memorial Oration Award 2012 at the 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association held in Hyderabad for the topic of oration was "Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain Neoplasms - Moving Closer to Physiology & Pathology".
Dr. Prakash Muthusami Senior Resident in the Department of Imaging Sciences & Interventional Radiology won the "Certificate of Merit" for the work entitled "Diffusion Tensor imaging (DTI) and tractography of the language pathways". at the 97th Annual Scientific meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) , held between 28TH November to 3rd December 2011 at Chicago.
Mr. G.T. Finosh Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Technology Wing winning the Young Scientist Award Studies on biosynthetic hydrogels for tissue engineering - effect of free water on cell penetration and survival. at the 24th Kerala Science Congress held from 29th to 31st January 2012 organized by the Kerala State Council for Science and Technology & Environment at Kottayam.
Ms. Ashna U Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in the Biomedical Technology Wing winning the Best Poster Award Surfactant gene mRNA modulations in three dimensional cultures of alveolar cells. At the 24th Kerala Science Congress held from 29th to 31st January 2012 organized by the Kerala State Council for Science and Technology & Environment at Kottayam.
Dr Thomas Titus Professor of Cardiology has been awarded FRCP(Edinburgh) from the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Dr. Noshir H. Wadia former President , SCTIMST for being awarded Padma Bhushan on the eve of 63rd Republic Day.
Dr. Shiny Velayudhan,Scientist C (Adhoc) from the Division of Tissue Engineering & Regeneration Technologies ( DTERT) won the MAHE Award for the best paper presented by a scientist/academic faculty : "A novel, higly sensitive cell based meatabolic assay using honeycomb micro-porous polymer membranes"During 22nd National Conference of the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, SBAOI & STERMI (India), Jan 6-8, 2012 at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai.
Mr. Willi Paul, Jr. Scientific Officer - B,Division of Biosurface Technology has won the Best Oral Presentation Award for Faculty for the paper "Thermosensitive curcumin stabilized gold nanoparticles: Adelivery system for cancer thearapy"During the International Conference on Biomaterials Implant Devices and Tissue Engineering, BIDTE-2012 organized jointly by Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, India and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, During January 6-8, 2012.
Ms. Susan M.Alex, PhD Student, (Guide Dr. C.P. Sharma) Biosurface Technology Division has won the Bajpai-Saha Award (First Prize) for the paper "Ligand targeted polyamine substitution in chitosan for efficient nanoparticles mediated gene delivery" During the International Conference on Biomaterials Implant Devices and Tissue Engineering, BIDTE-2012 organized jointly by Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, India and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, during January 6-8, 2012.
Ms. Sidhy Viha CV , Bajpai-Saha Award (Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine) for the paper presentation entitled "Functional Evaluation of a Polysaccharide-Protein Hydrogel as a Packed Bed Scaffold for Liver Tissue Engineering" co-authored by Ms. Sarika PR, Mr. Sajin Raj RG, Dr. Nirmala Rachel James and Dr. Anil Kumar PR in the in the International Conference on Biomaterials Implant Devices And Tissue Engineering during 6-8 January 2012 at The Rajalekshmi Engineering College, Chennai.
Dr. Prakash Muthuswami, PDCC resident in the Department of Imaging Sciences & Interventional Radiology was awarded the "Certificate of Merit" at the Annual Scientific meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA - one of the most important international Radiology meeting ), November 28 - December 3, 2011 at Chicago for the work titled "Diffusion Tensor imaging (DTI) and tractography of language pathways".
Dr. Sujit Abajirao Jagtap, Senior Resident, Department of Neurology, First Prize for the poster entitled: "Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: natural history and long term outcome" at the Pediatric Epilepsy Symposium organized by the Pediatric Epilepsy Society, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh on 5th and 6th November 2011.
Dr.Gayathri Easwer, working as Institute Research Fellow - A has been awarded IMA KMJ Best Paper Research Award for her publication titled "Incidence of Hypothyroidism in Coastal and non Coastal areas of Kerala in age group 20-25 years". Kerala medical Journal. July(4) .141-148, 2011
Dr. Meera R, fellow in Cardiac Electrophysiology won the best scientific paper award for the presentation on "Utility of implantableloop recorders in the evaluation of syncope - an initial experience" in the annual conference of Kerala chapter of Cardiological Society of India, held in Kollam on 30th October 2011.
Dr.Satyajeet Misra,Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology has won the "KPR Young Anaesthesiologist Award 2011" during the 35th Annual Kerala State Conference of ISA ,Held at Kerala,Kollam on 8-10-2011
The 18th National Vascular Society of India Conference (VSICON 2011) , was held at Taj Lands End, Mumbai from 29th September to 1st October 2011. SCTIMST winning in the following events.
1st VSICON "Rolling Trophy" ----> Team of Dr.Srujal Shah & Dr.Vikram Patra
Best Poster ----> Dr.Nedounsejiane M & Dr.Srujal Shah
Overseas Fellowship ----> Dr.Shivananda S & Dr.Srujal shah
Dr.Prakash Muthusami and Dr.Divyata Hingwala, Senior residents in the Department of Radiology were awarded the second & third prize for the Poster presentation at the Annual Conference of Indian Society of Neuroradiology held at PGI, Chandigarh from 22nd to 25th September 2011. The titles of the papers are: "Diffusion tensor metrics in elucidating brain tumor microstructure" & "Delineation of the optic radiations using diffusion tensor imaging and tractography"
Dr. Ramshekhar N. Menon,Assistant Professor of Neurology has won the "Best Paper on Epilepsy Award" during the 19th Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neurology (IANCON-2011),Held at Pune from 22nd to 25th September 2011 for the paper "Utility of Flouro-Deoxy Glucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) in deciding Surgical Candidacy in Patients with Drug-resistant Partial Epilepsy".
Dr. Shiva Kumar, Scientist 'G' Division of Cellular & Molecular Cardiology Selected for the Prestigious Award "Amrut Mody Unichem Prize - 2008" By the Indian Council of Media Research in recognition of the Outstanding Contribution in Biomedical Research.
Mr.Vishnu s.p, Apprentice Trade Fitter, Division of Clinical Engineering Won the "Gold Medal and selected As the Best Craftsman During the All India Skill Competition For Craftsman held at Kanpur on january 2011 Under the Craftsman Training Scheme.
Dr. Rohan Vijay Ainchwar, IIIrd year Cardiology Senior Resident won the First Prize in the national level Quiz competition conducted during the 3rd annual conference of the Arrhythmia-Heart Failure Academy held in Madras Medical Mission, Chennai on 3rd and 4th, September 2011.
Dr Srujal Shah & Dr Vikram Patra, IIIrd year Vascular surgery Senior Residents,SCTIMST have won the first prize & "First Rolling Trophy" of Vascular Society of india (VSI) during the 4th mid term conference of VSI held at Goa from 01/07/11 to 03/07/11.
Dr.Gopalakrishna Dash , Post Doctoral Fellow in the Epilepsy Program won the "Best Scientific Paper Award" at the ECON , February 25 - 27 , 2011 Ludhiana , for "Effect of Lesion Status in the Management and Outcome of Patients with Extratemporal Epilepsy".
Ms. Lynda V Thomas, Phd student at the Division for Tissue Engineering and Regeneration Technologies, SCTIMST has won the prestigious "Young Scientist Award" at the Kerala Science Congress 2011 held at Centre for Earth Science studies, Trivandrum from January 29th to 31st 2011. Her presentation was on "Development of a small diameter tissue engineered vascular construct using a novel biohybrid polymer scaffolds subjected to dynamic stimulation"
Dr.C.Kesavadas was awarded the "27th Calicut Medical College Alumini Association Oration award 2011" on 23rd January 2011 at Calicut.
Ms.Soumya Columbus has won the best ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD in the recent NATIONAL SEMINAR ON POLYMERS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY held at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Coimbatore from January 7-8, 2011 which was sponsored by DRDO and ICMR. Her presentation was on "BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER SCAFFOLDS FOR POTENTIAL SMALL DIAMETER VASCULAR GRAFT APPLICATIONS"
Dr. Satyajeet Misra has won the KOPS AWARD IN NEURO ANAESTHESIA for the year 2010, from the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (Member of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthsiologists) on the 58th annual national conference held at SGPGI, Lucknow
Indian Society of Blood Transfusion & Immunohaematology has selected Dr.Jaisy Mathai for the special Appreciation Award of ISBTI for the exemplary work done for promoting the speciality of Transfusion Medicine. The Award will be presented at the 35th Annual conference of ISBTI at Hyderabad.
Dr.Saramma.P.P has been awarded the Best Nurse Educator Award by TNAI 2010,at the Annual Conference of TNAI Kerala State Branch held on September 18th, 2010
Smt.Sudarsa.K has been awarded the Best Nurse Award by TNAI 2010, at the Annual Conference of TNAI Kerala State Branch held on September 18th, 2010
Sri. Sreekumar.R, Jr. Scientific Officer (Instruments)-B, Scanning Electron Microscope Division, Biomedical Technology Wing, has been awarded "Hitachi Best Poster award" in the International Conference on Advances in Electron Microscopy and Related Techniques in the Annual meeting of EMSI organized by Electron Microscope Society of India & Bhaba Atomic Research Centre during March 8-10, 2010.