BEST RESEARCH WORK AWARDS

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Recipient of a total of Twelve awards for “Best Research Work” as follows.

Air Marshal Ajit Nath Gurshanti Devi award for the best medical research paper in the Armed Forces for the year 1990. The research work was titled “Nested case control study of the risk factors for High Altitude Pulmonary Oedema (HAPO)”. HAPO is a major health problem for Indian army troops deployed in mountainous border areas. This research was conducted at an altitude of 12,000 feet in Ladakh. It identified certain major risk factors for HAPO and forwarded a preventive strategy. The paper was subsequently published in Medical Journal of Armed Forces of India (MJAFI).

Air Marshal Ajit Nath Gurshanti Devi award for the best medical research paper in the Armed Forces for the year 1991. This research work dealt with the field epidemiological investigations of an epidemic of cholera among army troops in New Delhi. The results pinpointed the role of food handlers in causing epidemics of cholera and helped in instituting immediate preventive and long term control measures. The paper was subsequently published in Indian Journal of Public Health.

Air Marshal Ajit Nath Gurshanti Devi award for the best medical research paper in the Armed Forces for the year 1994. The research work dealt with epidemiology of coronary risk factors on a large sample of 2400 army personnel, as a field based cross sectional analytic study. The study helped in proposing a specific health educational strategy for prevention of IHD in the armed forces. The paper was subsequently published in Medical Journal of Armed Forces of India (MJAFI)

Best published paper award of the Medical Journal of the Armed Forces of India (MJAFI) for the year 1994. This research work dealt with the epidemiology and specific risk factors for development systemic arterial hypertension at high altitude. The study was conducted on a fairly large sample of 3615 Army personnel at altitudes of 12,000 to 15,000 feet in Ladakh. The study helped in developing a specific preventive strategy for prevention of hypertension at high altitude.

Prof RN Srivastava Gold Medal for the best unpublished research paper awarded by Indian Society of Medical Statistics for the year 1996. This research paper dealt with a field epidemiological study on 700 army personnel, on systemic arterial hypertension. It identified the independent role of central obesity as a risk factor for hypertension, as well as worked out the optimum cut-off point of “waist: hip ratio” for operational use in predicting hypertension.

Air Marshal Ajit Nath Gurshanti Devi award for the best medical research paper in the Armed Forces for the year 1997. This research work dealt with mathematical modeling of HIV infection in the Indian armed forces and provided the current estimates as well as future projections of HIV infection for the next 3 years in future.

Air Marshal Ajit Nath Gurshanti Devi award for the best medical research paper in the Armed Forces for the year 1999. This research work dealt with epidemiology, transmission dynamics and risk factors for hepatitis – B infection in the Indian armed forces and provided guidelines for sero-testing, vaccination strategy and other preventive steps for hepatitis – B in the armed forces

Lt Gen R S Hoon award for the best research paper in the Armed Forces in the field of cardiac sciences, for the year 2001. This paper dealt with the epidemiology of syndrome ‘X’ (now known as “Metabolic Syndrome”) among middle aged Army personnel, and the coronary risk that this syndrome is likely to carry. This was the first ever community based epidemiological study among apparently healthy army personnel, on the issue of “syndrome X”.

Director General, Armed Forces Medical Services and Senior Colonel Commandant award for the best research paper for the year 2002 in the Armed Forces. This award was given for the study on epidemiology and transmission dynamics of scrub typhus in and around Pune.

Best published paper award of the Medical Journal of the Armed Forces of India (MJAFI) for the year 2004. (asa co-worker). This research work dealt with epidemiology, transmission dynamics and risk factors for hepatitis – B infection in the Indian armed forces and provided guidelines for sero-testing, vaccination strategy and other preventive steps for hepatitis – B in the armed forces.

S D Gaur Best paper award by Indian Public Health Association for environmental health. Details of paper as follows :- “Tilak R, Tilak V W, Bhalwar R. Insecticide treated bednet strategy in rural settings : can we exploit women’s decision making power? Ind Jr Pub hlth 2007; 51 : 152 – 8.”

“DGAFMS Award for the Best Conducted Armed Forces Medical Research Project of the year in the armed forces in the discipline of Community Medicine, Public Health and Epidemiology”, for the year 2011. The research project was a multi-centric study among 1100 apparently healthy middle aged army personnel, on the epidemiology, prevalence and potential risk factors for metabolic syndrome.

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