​HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUE CONFERENCE 2024

Acute Stroke Treatment: past, present, and future

MAYANK GOYAL, Calgary, Canada

Mayank has devoted his professional life in understanding and dealing the individual and varied causes of acute strokes that is now rapidly becoming the bane of humanity in all societies across the globe. He gives a nuanced critique on the many ways of tackling this.  

Stroke is a devastating disease that is the biggest cause of human disability. In the West about 85% of strokes are ischemic, and mostly caused by large vessel occlusions (LVO). Mayank describes his experience with using Endo-Vascular Thrombectomy (EVT) that led to new guidelines and significant changes in global outcomes due to changes in clinical practice. Since then, he has developed techniques for further applications with considerable success worldwide. He has much hopes for the future in combating these complications.

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Renal Disease: Past, Present, Future

SUMIT KUMAR; Renal Physician, Dallas glomdoc@gmail.com

Sleep Disorders: Past, Present, Future

ASHUTOSH KACKER, Cornell University

Ash is a renowned international expert on sleep disorders. He has been very concerned about the rising pandemic of this condition as it severely handicaps all our bodily functions. This disorder is only set to rise, given the general lack of public awareness about this issue.

Ash will take us through his journey and propose ideas to benefit all of us in avoiding the common pitfalls affecting our own lives.

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Opportunities in Crises – some ideas!

VINAY GARODIA, Synergy Vision, Delhi

Vinay has remarkably withstood tremendous challenges in creating innovative ways to provide diverse health care options across the board. His success is a true testimony to his resilience and ability to energize colleagues in collaborating and taking responsibility for raising the reputation of the professions for the good of the community under trying times. 

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Exploring health inequities in General practice in UK

SUDHA DHALL, Acton

Sudha Dhall is a General Practitioner in West Acton with special interests in Women’s issues running integrated clinical services in Ealing hospital. She is also a Programme Director for GPs in training. She gives an overall review of her professional experiences in UK based on her close observation of the perceived inequities in health. In her view very little has changed over time. So she outlines some of the areas where specific remedial measures for improvement are essential and can positively impact upon the long term outcomes for the majority of such patients. 

Modelling uniformity in services for Emergency Care in India

AKSHAY KUMAR, AIIMS Delhi

Akshay is Associate Professor in the Emergency Services at AIIMS Delhi, devoting his professional life in improving services to reduce the effects of catastrophic health events lurking round every corner in India. He works with a renowned team with a long track-record in creating robust systems that could be rolled out across India with great potential for saving millions of lives. He provides us with invaluable lessons for reducing the sudden and permanent impacts to the life-changing events facing any of our own lives.

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Creating web-based platforms for public and clinical education

VIVEK GUPTA, Mayo Clinic

Vivek Gupta is Associate Professor in Neuroradiology at Mayo Clinic, having trained from Yale University School of Medicine. During the COVID pandemic he found many opportunities for using web-based platforms for medical education using the Mayo Clinic outreach programme and shares his ideas for creating a global platform for clinician and public education at industrial scale.

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Reducing the future clinical burden of Cervical Cancers in India 

VARAD PUTAMBEKAR, Oxford

Varad became interested in public health early during his MBBS days. He then worked in Gadchiroli with Dr Abhay Bang and the organization SEARCH that later invented the ASHA worker model for COVID relief.

Currently he is completing his PhD in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar while developing a model for complex health care systems using computational simulation. It has great potential for creating a cascade of care in India for cervical cancer where this problem is real.

Startup 101: How I created a start-up enterprise

VIRENDRA K SHARMA, MD, FASGE, AGAF, Mayo

"Prepare to embark on an exciting journey through the dynamic world of medical device startups and entrepreneurial ventures. We will delve into the intricacies of launching your own enterprise in medical devices and healthcare innovation. From the initial brainstorming of groundbreaking ideas, navigating intellectual property and regulatory challenges (trust us, it’s an adventure), to achieving reimbursement for your technology and eventually securing acquisition. So, take a seat, fasten your seatbelt, and join us on this journey filled with invaluable tips, insightful tricks, hard-earned lessons, myth busting, and a few noteworthy missteps. Disclaimer: This presentation is not evidence- or eminence-based."

Dr Sharma is a practicing gastroenterologist and a serial entrepreneur with 3 decades of experience. He has held the posts of Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Vice-Chair of Gastroenterology Research, all the while making significant contributions to this field. Dr. Sharma has also founded multiple successful MedTech device startups in gastrointestinal endoscopy, surgery, cardiology, women's health, and consumer health. These ventures have secured over $120 million in venture funding, showcasing confidence in his innovative ideas.

Dr. Sharma possesses a portfolio of 100+ US and international patents in innovative products. He has also contributed extensively in academia, being recognized by Stanford University amongst the world's top 2% of scientists gaining accolades from the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He continues to contribute enormously to reshape the future of gastroenterology and healthcare. ​

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Sustainable Healthcare: Culture Change for Strategic Actions

PAWAN JAIN, Yorkshire, England

Pawan Jain is a Cardiac Anaesthetist very concerned about the negative impact of modernity upon the health of patients and our ecosystem. It is our sedentary lifestyle, utter dependence upon ultra-processed foods, use of expensive transportation, degradation of natural resources, etc that are utterly irresponsible and deserve to be decried. Even ignoring the financial costs, humanitarian emergencies alone from heatwaves, wildfires, floods, tropical storms and hurricanes alone rising in astronomical scale, frequency and intensity with a projected additional 250 000 deaths per year worldwide by mid-century leading to over 9 million additional deaths per year by 2200. Pollution causes diseases and premature deaths in more than 16% compared to all global deaths in 2015. Globally, health systems are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, but in turn also contribute to this effect (up to 5% of the global total of the greenhouse emissions).

He questions the very basis of human efforts for sustainability during this current triple crisis facing nature but doesn’t lose heart, finding unique opportunities for AIIMSONAINS to contribute positively in making these changes happen. This includes guiding health sector professionals in addressing climate-related health risks through collaboration; strengthening health system functions for climate resilience and policies for low carbon health approaches; supporting development of specific interventions for emissions reduction and helping define roles and responsibilities for health decision-makers in climate resilience, etc.

In his view, AIIMSONIANS do have an important role not only as role models but also in directing the benefits for change for extending far beyond the realms of practising health care.

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“Health research: From Eugenics & Biomimetics to Bioethics”

SURESH RAO, Western Lake District, England

This is a roller coaster of a journey from start to finish, spanning billions of years and mils across radically divergent cultures and  terrains terrestrial, cosmic and unrecognisable – so hold on tight – and keep breathing!!!

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Session on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Risks & Rewards of AI in Health versus Healthcare

Chairman: Saroj Das

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