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The final study under
NMITLI Arthritis project published by Chopra A,
Saluja M, Tillu G et al. entitled “ Ayurvedic
medicine offers a good alternative to glucosamine
and celecoxib in the treatment of symptomatic knee
osteoarthritis: a randomized, double-blind, controlled
equivalence drug trial” was awarded Best Clinical
Research paper by ECIM (European Congress for Integrative
Medicine) for the year 2012 in the annual meeting
at Berlin in Oct 2013.The study was sponsored and
funded by NMITLI, Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research, Government of India. |
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Center for Rheumatic
Diseases, Pune (CRD) joins METEOR INTERNATION DATABASE
(Measurement of Efficacy of Treatment in the ‘Era
of Outcome’ for Rheumatoid Arthritis) as the
1st Country in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr Arvind
Chopra is nominated ‘Country lead’. Manjit
Saluja is the country co-ordinator and Deepak Songoji
is in-charge of CRD program / data transfer. (2013)
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Dr
Nachiket Kulkarni qualified as the first fully
trained rheumatologist from CRD after completing
18 months of fellowship training program & passing
final examination (2013) |
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Dr
Nachiket Kulkarni was awarded Best Poster (clinical)
by Indian Rheumatology Association Iracon 2013,
Kolkata, India. |
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Mr Ravi Ghorpade
was awarded PhD for the thesis “Tissue culture
studies in Boswellia serrata Roxb. : In Vitro Production
of Potent Anti-Inflammatory Metabolite, ‘Boswellic
Acid’” (2011) |
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Dr
Vaijaynti Lagu Joshi awarded the ‘EULAR
certification of Rheumatic Diseases’(2010) |
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Ms
Anuradha Venugopalan was awarded PhD for the
thesis ‘Defining Immunogenetic markers in patients
with inflammatory arthritis in rural population
of western Maharashtra’ (2010) |
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Ms Yogita Ghodke
was awarded PhD for the thesis ‘ Pharmacogenetics
of Methotrexate (MTX) response (efficacy, toxicity)
in Indian patients suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis’
(2010) |
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Center for Rheumatic
Diseases, Pune is a recipient of ILAR 2010 research
grant to set up a COPCORD World page and data repository
(2010) |
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Ms
Manjit Saluja obtained the MScCRA degree from
SMU, Manipal University (2009) |
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Dr
Vinya Kunjeer awarded the ‘Pediatric
rheumatology graduation certificate’ from Western
University, Perth, Australia (2009) |
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ICMR, Govt of India
awards a project on Chikungunya
Arthritis (2007) |
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Dr
Chopra A is appointed as the Chairman of the
ICMR task force on Musculoskeletal disorders (2006).
Under his guidance and co-ordination a population
of 30,000 is being surveyed all over India
using COPCORD Bhigwan model |
