Medical College Trivandrum, 1992 MBBS batch

amerikyan saayipumaar

2010-06-03T10:00:00.005-05:00

Dixon takes up a second career

2010-05-03T11:10:00.001-05:00

Professional arm-wrestling - ivan puli aanu...

92 batch get together april 11th TVM (photos uploaded by alex)

2010-04-12T20:22:00.005-05:00

Premlal, Anoop and Anil Kumar AV

2009-07-13T09:21:00.000-05:00

2009-07-13T09:15:00.001-05:00

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alex, anoop and vp

2009-06-04T15:25:00.002-05:00

2009-06-02T16:29:00.002-05:00

2009-05-21T08:44:00.004-05:00

2009-04-15T11:58:00.002-05:00

partial A batch reunion at Anoops place

2009-03-29T10:58:00.002-05:00

We missed Anil George, Anil AM, Ben George, Bijay and Binusha....

Anil & Rani George

2009-03-21T09:06:00.003-05:00

Veruthe oru Jaada vandi irikyatte...

2009-03-19T15:56:00.006-05:00

Vinod R and Marina family

2009-03-19T15:56:00.003-05:00

2009-02-18T13:41:00.002-05:00

Sreekumar, Austin, Mohan Roy, Ansar, Kishore and Bhavendu

Vinoop

2009-01-28T16:53:00.003-05:00

Vinoop is now a Consultant Anasthesiologist in Miami, Fl.

Of course he still doesnt know how many kilometers there are between Miami and Washington DC....

harun

2009-01-28T16:48:00.003-05:00

Harun is in the UK doing Surgical training. Pictured with his wife, Smitha and 5 yr old daughter, Riya.

Anil A M

2009-01-28T16:44:00.003-05:00

Anil AM is now working as a Consultant Anasthesiologist at the University of Iowa.

Our Academic Oncologists part 1

2009-01-23T16:27:00.001-05:00

Nair Joins UAMS Myeloma Institute as Assistant Professor

LITTLE ROCK— Bijay Nair, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor in its Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy.

Nair will see patients primarily in the Myeloma Institute's outpatient clinic. He received his medical degree from the University of Kerala in India and completed his residency in internal medicine at UAMS. Nair also completed a fellowship in hematology/oncology at UAMS, and holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Minnesota.

Our Academic Oncologists part 2

2009-01-23T16:24:00.003-05:00

Gamma has joined MD Anderson Cancer Center as an Asst. Prof specializing in Sarcoma research.
Check out the following LINK

JK

2008-11-23T18:21:00.001-05:00

JaadaKrishnan

2008-10-27T09:58:00.003-05:00

Rajesh PS and family

2008-10-19T19:50:00.002-05:00

2008-08-30T13:51:00.003-05:00

Renjit Narayan..

2008-07-20T06:44:00.000-05:00

anoop joins as Staff Cardiologist at Albert Einstein, Philadelphia

2008-07-09T10:38:00.001-05:00

Anoop completed his cardiology fellowship and joined Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia earlier this month as a Consultant Cardiologist.

archana and anjana

2008-07-07T19:58:00.002-05:00

his hobby when not in the oncology clinic...

2008-06-14T20:22:00.000-05:00

look at how happy bijay is....

2008-06-14T20:21:00.000-05:00

view from outside my office :)

2008-06-14T20:20:00.000-05:00

2008-06-14T20:19:00.000-05:00

Anoop and Bijay visit us

2008-06-14T20:18:00.000-05:00

who said a mallu can't make a music video ?

2008-06-05T21:37:00.000-05:00

check out the orange shorts

2008-05-26T17:56:00.003-05:00

Alex Joseph MD, FRCA

2008-05-19T10:37:00.002-05:00

At the FRCA convocation..

more reunion fotos

2008-05-11T20:46:00.004-05:00

Archana, Deepa & Smitha Menon

2008-05-11T20:45:00.003-05:00

2008-05-11T20:44:00.004-05:00

reunion...

2008-05-11T20:34:00.000-05:00

2008-05-11T08:02:00.000-05:00

Cambridge Reunion 2008

2008-05-10T18:52:00.002-05:00

1st Row: Alex, Smitha Menon, Deepa S Kurup, Archana.

2nd Row: Renjith CP, Ajit Oommen, Sheen, Anand Alexander, Manu Sankar, Hari KS, Dilip, Jeet, Prince and Aarlin.

Anil AM

2008-05-06T07:52:00.002-05:00

Anil AM is one of the very few foreign medical graduates who has been given the privilege of having the residency requirement in the USA waived. He has been given direct appointment as a Clinical Asst. Prof in Anasthesiology at the Univ of Iowa, starting July.

Anil George....

2008-05-06T07:50:00.003-05:00

How he decompresses after a rough night on call...

binusha-sai-lekshmi

2008-05-02T07:36:00.002-05:00

akkara kaazchakal

2008-04-30T17:08:00.001-05:00

This episode somehow is so true of indians in the US :)

part A:

part B:

designer window pane

2008-04-29T09:38:00.003-05:00

One of the doors in the cardiology dept of our medical college..at least they could have put the image right side up :P

Neethu Abraham

2008-04-21T09:41:00.000-05:00

Neethu Koshy M.D. Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr. Koshy recently completed a Fellowship Program at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt. She is experienced in the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD and related mood symptoms and educational needs. Her services also include the care of neglected, abused and early deprived children, and adolescents with complex emotional needs, mood and developmental disorders.

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I met Neethu recently - she is in private practice in Baltimore, MD.

Innocent to be Chief Guest for UK reunion ?

2008-04-18T07:49:00.002-05:00

Organizer Alex apparently went to Innocents house last week and serenaded him with his "mera jeevan kora kaagaz" and moved innocent so much, that he has agreed to be the chief guest for the UK reunion next month.
Apparently Salman Khan will also be there- this time to claim the real rose king award

Posting from alex...

2008-04-03T16:51:00.001-05:00

10th may , Cambridge programme

9.30 registration and reception -renjith cp

10.30 -welcome - surprise !! surprise !!

11.00- variety entertainment programe ( songs , dance, games , best dressed couple)

13.00 - FOOD

15.00 - EVERYBODY ON THE DANCE FLOOR (DJ alex )

15.30 - THANK YOU / NEXT VENUE - MANU S

16.00 - CAMBRIDGE OPEN BUS TOUR

Bijay to be Asst. Prof

2008-03-25T16:35:00.002-05:00

Bijay P has decided to join the University of Arkansas as Asst. Prof in Hematology/Oncology starting July 1. He will be focusing on Myeloma research. He has published extensively- writing regularly in both the American Journal of Hematology as well as doing Book Review articles for JAMA !
Kazhakootam space colonyil karangi nadanavan ippol professor of hematology/oncology....naale ivan american president aayirikyum !!

Riaz and Thanuja

2008-03-20T21:24:00.003-05:00

Riaz works as a Pediatrician at Kadakkal and Thanuja is an Ob/Gyn at SAT...

Jinu Kurian

2008-03-20T07:13:00.001-05:00

Jinu with his Achayan smile :)
He is working as a surgeon at Pushpagiri, thiruvalla..

so what if JK does a lot of digital prostate examinations, there's an upside to it :)

2008-03-18T09:50:00.002-05:00

Here he goes again....yet another publication...as if we are going to be impressed by this :P

J Urol. 2008 Mar 14 [Epub ahead of print]

Risk Stratification for Biochemical Recurrence in Men With Positive Surgical Margins or Extracapsular Disease After Radical Prostatectomy: Results From the SEARCH Database.

Jayachandran J, Bañez LL, Levy DE, Aronson WJ, Terris MK, Prestijr JC, Amling CL, Kane CJ, Freedland SJ; the SEARCH Database Study Group.

Division of Urologic Surgery, Departments of Surgery and Pathology and Duke Prostate Center, Duke University School of Medicine; Urology Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Durham, Durham, North Carolina, Urology Section, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.

PURPOSE: In men with extracapsular disease or positive surgical margins after radical prostatectomy immediate adjuvant therapy decreases the risk of biochemical recurrence at the cost of increased toxicity. We further stratified these men into a low risk group in which watchful waiting after surgery may be preferred and a high risk cohort in which adjuvant therapy may be preferred. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective analysis of the records of 902 men treated with radical prostatectomy in the Shared Equal-Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) database between 1988 and 2007 with positive surgical margins and/or extracapsular disease without seminal vesicle invasion or lymph node metastasis. The significant independent predictors of biochemical recurrence were determined using a multivariate Cox proportional hazards model. Based on the recurrence risk generated from the multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression model we generated tables to estimate the risk of recurrence-free survival 1, 3 and 5 years after surgery. RESULTS: At a median of 3 years of followup 346 patients (39%) had biochemical recurrence. On multivariate analysis the significant predictors of biochemical recurrence were age more than 60 years, prostate specific antigen more than 10 ng/ml, Gleason score 4 + 3 and 8-10, 2 or more sites of positive surgical margins and prostate specimen weight 30 gm or less. As determined by the concordance index, the overall predictive accuracy of the model was 0.67, while it was 0.60 for the postoperative Kattan nomogram in this patient population. CONCLUSIONS: We have developed a simple instrument that, once validated, may aid in the postoperative decision making process for men at intermediate risk for recurrence after prostatectomy.

PMID: 18343426 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

unni with vinoop and vp in florida..

2008-03-16T17:00:00.003-05:00

JK starts churning out publications...

2008-03-09T14:18:00.004-05:00

American Journal of Men's Health 2008, doi:10.1177/1557988307313918
© 2008 SAGE Publications

Prevention of Prostate Cancer: What We Know and Where We Are Going.

Jayakrishnan Jayachandran, MD^* and Stephen J. Freedland, MD

Duke University School of Medicine

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jayakrishnan.jayachandran@duke.edu.

ABSTRACT:
As one of the most prevalent cancers, prostate cancer has enormouspublic health importance and its prevention seems to be a rationalapproach to attenuate the economic, emotional, physical, andsocial impact of this disease. This review discusses some ofthe options available to clinicians worldwide under the broadheadings of chemoprevention and dietary modification includinglifestyle issues. From the review of available literature, itis appreciated that although many exciting options such as androgeninhibitors, vitamin E, and selenium are being actively considered,they are far from being included in clinical practice. So untillarge randomized trials confirm the benefit of chemopreventivesand dietary modifications, patients may be advised to pursuea diet and lifestyle that ensures overall fitness.

prince and nisha visit the US

2008-03-09T14:01:00.000-05:00

2008-03-03T13:08:00.000-05:00

Anoop & Seema

2008-03-03T13:07:00.000-05:00

Anil, Rani, Pradeep & Seema ( Anoop's wife)

Cambridge Reunion

2008-02-27T06:50:00.001-05:00

hi guys

The organising committee for the 92 batch reunion programme is as follows

Registration and reception - renjith cp .

Food and drinks - ajith oomen

Finance committee manu and prince

Variety Entertainment programme - benoj bas

Lucky dip contest - smitha menon

Programme coordinator/ car parking- alex

cheers

alex

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mammooty video

2008-02-27T06:46:00.001-05:00

interesting signboard....

2008-01-31T11:07:00.000-05:00

UK batch reunion in May

2008-01-31T10:18:00.000-05:00

Our batchmates in the UK are organizing a reunion in May. Details are below:
Please contact Chalax Joseph for further details:

DATE: MAY 10th ,SATURDAY 2008
TIME:9.30 - 4.00 PM
VENUE - HEXAGON (BOOKED)
The Frank Lee Centre, Addenbrookes Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge,CB2 0SN

medical college labs online...

2008-01-29T09:25:00.000-05:00

T'PURAM: Looking for a patient in the overcrowded labyrinthine wards of the Medical College here is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

From now on, it need not be.

All the details of the patients- the ward in which they are admitted to, the bed number and house address - are available on the tip of your fingers.

Just log on to www.healthkerala. gov.in and click on the link Medical College enquiry.

Not just this, the OP timings and name of doctors attending each OP everyday are also listed here.

This helps the people to plan their visit to the hospital from the comfort of their home.

With this, the Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram has become the first government hospital in the state to go online with the details of the patients available on your finger tips.

Even the availability of the paywards and its rates are also listed here.

"This is just the first phase of our computerisation process. In the next phase we are planning to offer more facilities to the patients," Dr.C.Jayan deputy superintendent of the Medical College Hospital who is also the nodal officer of computer networking here told this website's News Paper.

Reports of investigations like biopsy, CT Scan, Ultrasound examination, etc, will be made available through a secure web page.

"A patient can type in his OP number and payment receipt number and get these reports at his home," said Jayan.

The main advantage; reducing crowd before the departments and speeding up therapeutic decisions.

Another development will be that patients will be given an option of registering online for OP ticket.

So that when they arrive at the hospital, the OP ticket will be ready. Online registration of paywards is also being planned.

Facilities will be provided to transfer the medical details of one patient from one institution to another like Regional Cancer Centre or Sree Chitra Institute of Medical Sciences where the rest of the treatment might take place.
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Guess all the poor people who go to MCH all have high speed internet access at home...

Anjana

2008-01-28T15:56:00.000-05:00

Anjana is currently in Bahrain..

Kishore

2008-01-28T09:44:00.001-05:00

Kishore is working at Cooperative Medical College, Kochi.

PG hostel or Wildlife sanctuary ?

2008-01-22T09:00:00.001-05:00

I found these pics on the 99 batch website- and i just had to put it on our blog. The kitchen picture got me thinking- with the snake in the kitchen, was that going to be passed off as the beef fry special ? I dont know which was more amusing - the actual pictures or the smart comment below the pic :

paambukkalkke pg hostel unde, pg kalkko........?

Sunil Latheef

2008-01-16T11:27:00.000-05:00

Roshan is a Dad- Again !

2008-01-09T09:14:00.000-05:00

Proud dad :)

Sidenote: Roshan has finished his Infectious disease fellowship and is now pursuing an advanced postdoctoral fellowship in HIV medicine. Levan Kidilam thanne.

Nostalgia....

2007-12-22T16:06:00.000-05:00

I borrowed this pic from the 99batch.com website :)
Kinda brought instant reminders of Sudha Madam's medicine rounds..Wonder who has this much charisma nowadays...

Meet Alex Joseph MD, FRCA

2007-12-22T08:34:00.000-05:00

He is now a Fellow of the Royal college of Anasthesiologists...Good Job ! :)

Latheef alias Thevar Maghan :)

2007-12-10T05:58:00.001-05:00

Rajesh MR

2007-12-09T19:15:00.000-05:00

Rajesh MR is now at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio doing a clinical fellowship in Cardiac Surgery. He joined the 3yr program in July. He had completed his MS in Surgery from PGI and his McH from AIIMS. He was working at Amrita hospital in kochi prior to coming to Cleveland.
His Wife Rehana is working at Technopark in Trivandrum right now. They have a 2yr old daughter Rannia.

randu samosayum oru apple martiniyum....

2007-12-05T17:24:00.000-05:00

Proud dad Sajeev

2007-11-24T08:47:00.000-05:00

Narayanan

2007-11-24T08:43:00.000-05:00

Check out VP's newspaper ad

2007-11-24T00:21:00.000-05:00

2007-11-19T19:35:00.000-05:00

Munnar trip

2007-11-17T14:14:00.000-05:00

Subramaniam Karthik

2007-11-14T16:52:00.000-05:00

Karthik is completing his Nephrology Fellowship in Sydney, Australia

Renjitha, Binusha and Lekshmi with families

2007-11-14T07:13:00.000-05:00

Greenvilleil Hospitalist aayaal....

2007-11-08T17:43:00.000-05:00

On Sep 30th, we had a posting titled- Nephrology consultant aayaal...Well I guess this is what you do if you are a hospitalist. Who said discharging those CHF exacerbations a day earlier wasnt financially rewarding ?

Before and after a couple of "Bennytinis"...

2007-11-07T13:11:00.000-05:00

Sandheep

2007-11-07T13:10:00.001-05:00

Sandheep is now working as a lecturer in Community Medicine at the 7th October University in Libya !

JK produces public service video while working at Duke Urology..

2007-10-31T06:41:00.000-05:00

All credit to jayakrishnan.jayachandran@duke.edu

Self-promtion or just smart advertising ? :)

2007-10-31T06:34:00.001-05:00

alex to play english county cricket too...

2007-10-29T12:06:00.001-05:00

After Jeet, it's now Alex's turn to play....

wonder if this applies to Manu, Alex, Anil AM, Vinoop et al :)

2007-10-02T16:24:00.000-05:00

Nephrology Consultant aayaal....

2007-09-30T18:53:00.000-05:00

what goes on in our medical college...

2007-09-15T07:45:00.000-05:00

prince in trafalgar square

2007-08-22T15:07:00.000-05:00

Meet up with Alex in London

2007-08-20T11:07:00.000-05:00

prince and nisha

2007-08-20T11:06:00.000-05:00

when we met up with them at Trafalgar square

Royal treat in London

2007-08-20T10:57:00.000-05:00

We met up with our own Prince in London on Saturday...

thomas baby

2007-08-03T23:40:00.000-05:00

I met thomas Baby yesterday. He is a consultant orthopedist at KIMS. His wife, Manju is doing her postgraduation in Radiology at MCH. Their daughter Hanna is 1yr old.

Bijay

2007-07-25T06:09:00.000-05:00

Bijay is in his final year of his Hematology/Oncology fellowship at the Univ of Arkansas, Little Rock.

susan mani

2007-07-19T08:50:00.000-05:00

I visited Susan day before yesterday. She is now Asst Prof of Pharmac at the Kolenchery Medical College. Pictured along with her daughter Ansu and son Sachin.

a sign board in EKM

2007-07-15T21:14:00.000-05:00

Kalamaserryil nadanna poyapol kanda oru signboard...adhu kandondu njaan poyi meet cheythu...Jacob is very busy with his practice, wife Angel is a periodontist at Amrita- she is expecting their 3rd child...

Princeh !

2007-07-15T21:07:00.000-05:00

Ivenum Saayip aayi ! :)

graduate from UVA

2007-07-12T08:58:00.000-05:00

Pictures from the UVA Rheum fellowship graduation dinner

VTP

2007-07-11T20:46:00.000-05:00

VTP is in his 2nd yr of his MCH in Cardiac Surgery at Sri Chitra. Manju is the RMO at RCC. Their son Tommy (Thomas Varghese Panicker) is in St. thomas. Wonder why all the smart kids go to st.thomas ? :)