NEMCON 2024

Innovations in Diabetes Care

Exploring cutting-edge technologies and personalized approaches in managing diabetes within the family medicine framework.
InTackling the Obesity Epidemic

Exploring effective strategies, confronting challenges, and fostering healthier lifestyles in combating the obesity epidemic.
Navigating Autoimmune Diseases

Understanding the complexities of autoimmune diseases within family medicine, emphasizing precision approaches for diagnosis, treatment, and patient support.
Harnessing Data for Precision Health

Exploring the role of data analytics, genomics, and artificial intelligence in optimizing precision health practices within family medicine, with a focus on the specified health challenges.

Keynote address, FINEM Awards followed by Dinner

Date: 27^th April 2024 (Saturday)

Time: 5:30 pm onwards

Venue: IMA House, Kochi

Pre-conference workshop

Date: 28th April 2024 (Sunday)

Time: 8:00 am (on-spot registration begins at 7:30 am)

Venue: IMA House, Kochi

Keynote Talks 30 minutes each

Panel Discussions 90 mins each

Each Panel Discussion will consist of 4 speakers
Total of 16 Speakers for Panel Discussions
First half: 8 am - 1 pm
Second half: 2 pm - 5 pm

Dr. A Sreekumar

Lead Precision & Functional Medicine Physician

Founder of Soukhya foundation

Dr. A. Anand Kumar

Vice principal Amrita school of medicine

Neurologist - AIMS, Kochi

Prof. K. S. Rangappa

Ex vice Chancellor - Mysore University

CSIR Emeritus Scientist

Dr. Anirudh Rajkumar

Advanced Robotic & Laparoscopic Surgeon

Director Lifeline Hospitals - Chennai

Dr. Jaideep C Menon

Consultant Cardiologist - AIMS, Kochi

Dr. Ravi Sankaran

Professor & Head

Dept. Of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, AIMS - Kochi

Dr. Sreesudha Chepyala

American Board Certified Physician

Director - Eternesse Medical Clinic, Hyderabad

Dr. Leroy Rebello

Inventor & Scientist

Founding Director - Biotex Life Solutions, Hyderabad

Dr. Srikanth Sundaresh

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mysore

Dr. Praveen K Saxena

Clinical Metal Toxicologist

Director - Dr Saxena's Integrative Medicine Pvt Ltd,Hyderabad

Role of Precision Medicine in Modern Scientific Health Care

Dr. A Sreekumar

Brahmi in neurological disorders

Dr. Leroy Rebello

The all-pervading Akasha Science of bio-spaciology

Dr. Anand Kumar

Environment we live in causing the epidemic of diabesity

Dr. Lenny DaCosta

Nutritional therapy in heart disease

Dr. Sudha Chepyala

Role of micronutrients in post surgery

Dr. Anirudh Rajkumar

Navigating autoimmune diseases

Dr. Srikanth Sundaresh

Practical guide to treatment with hyperbaric oxygen in covid 19 and vaccine injury

Dr. Praveen Saxena

Neural therapy

Dr. Ravi Sankaran

Tackling the diabesity epidemic: addressing the Multifaceted challenges of obesity through Precision health strategies tailored to the Individual within the family medicine setting

Dr. Jaideep C Menon

Innovations in diabetes care: exploring cutting-edge technologies and personalized approaches in managing diabetes within the family medicine framework.

Prof. Rangappa K S

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Dr. A Sreekumar

Dr. A Sreekumar is a distinguished figure in the medical field, with 39 years of clinical practice as a Senior Consultant in ENT & Head and Neck Surgery. Over the last two decades, Dr. A Sreekumar has transitioned into practicing Nutritional & Cellular Medicine, demonstrating a commitment to holistic health approaches. Additionally, Dr. A Sreekumar is the Founder of the Soukhya Foundation, embodying a dedication to community health initiatives. Moreover, serving as the President of INMA and Director of STRI, Dr. A Sreekumar plays pivotal roles in shaping medical discourse and advancing research.

In the realm of medical education, Dr. A Sreekumar holds significant positions, serving as the Course Coordinator & Chief Faculty at FINEM, India. Furthermore, Dr. A Sreekumar is recognized internationally, having spoken at prestigious events such as ACNEM in Australia and serving as Teaching Faculty at institutions like SAAARMM in Malaysia and AKSHARA in Indonesia. Dr. A Sreekumar has also been an Invited Speaker at various international conferences, contributing expertise to discussions on Anti-ageing Medicine.

Dedicated to advancing wellness sciences, Dr. A Sreekumar serves as the Chief Course Convener for the PG Diploma in Wellness Science at the University of Mysore. Additionally, Dr. A Sreekumar has been instrumental in organizing Wellness & Nutritional Congresses across several countries including Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Dubai, UK, and the USA, fostering global dialogues on health and nutrition. Through these multifaceted roles, Dr. A Sreekumar continues to make significant contributions to the fields of medicine, education, and public health, advocating for holistic approaches to wellness and healthcare.

Dr. Leroy Rebello

The INVENTOR of NANOCURCUMIN, NANOASHWAGANDA,and Prp lysate, Dr. Leroy Rebello got his Under Graduate Medical Degree from Mumbai in the Year of 2004.

He went on to do his Diploma in Dermatology from St. Jhons private HOSPITAL Australia. Following which in 2008 he did his PhD in alternative medicine with special interests in Ocular Pathology and Lasers, besides having a successful practice in Lasers and Aesthetic Medicine.

Dr. Leroy Rebello is a lecturer in reputed Institutions such as AIIMS and JIPMER and other Medical Colleges around the country and he has over 12Research papers published in Indexed Journals

Dr.Leroy has participated in various clinical trials in the capacity of an Investigator including Stem Cell Therapy, Fresh Cell Therapy and Platelet Rich Plasma etc., He is credited with many inventions He always had interest in Alternative medicine and Practices Integrative Medicine for which Dr. Rebello has been invited to speak at various International Conference and Exhibition on Cosmetology & Trichology in USA. And world over .He has been a speaker in American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine Seminar.

Dr. Rebello is first Doctor Introduced HLP-PRP in India. He has also been a pioneer in PRP and for the use of advanced cell therapy for treating from Facial, Body rejuvenation to sports injuries. Dr. Rebello is continuously Researching and Developing New Treatments and cures. His goals are to provide holistic therapy through a combination of traditional and modern medicine.He is also a horonary fellow of FINIM. Professor of INMA(Indian Nutritional Medical Association), INDIAN SOCIETY OF TOCILIGICY AND MEDICAL THERAPY

DR LEROY REBELLO has also been presented with the. Prestigious PRESIDENTIAL AWARD. FROM THE. KING OF MALASYIA. FOR HIS WORK IN ANTIAGEING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE.

Dr. Sreesudha Chepyala

Dr. Chepyala. M.D. is USA Trained, Texas State Licensed American Board-Certified Physician. Practicing Medicine As a Family Physician with Personal Interest in Preventive Medicine and Regenerative Medicine. Her approach to Health care is through a Lens of Functional Medicine, which is Holistic well being for whole Health.

Dr. Chepyala is currently Practicing in India as well, with a vision of Functional Medicine Patient care center and also provides health awareness programs for poor & underprivileged communities with a mission of 'Prevention is the best medicine to a Healthy living'. With that vision in mind, she started her own center & has been the medical director of Eternesse Medical Clinic in Hyderabad India, which is known for Integrative Functional Medicine Center for Health with goals of Preventive and Regenerative and Palliative medicine.

In addition to General / Integrative / Functional Medical practice, her experience & topic of interest in Research & Presentations are

GMOs & the dangers to human health and the environment
Male & female hormone imbalances
Nutritional imbalances in chronic diseases
Gut microbiome imbalances
Inflammation, & immune function
Environmental toxins
Nutrigenomics
Epigenetics
DNA methylation
Histone modification & non-coding RNA (ncRNA)-associated gene silencing is currently considered to initiate and sustain epigenetic change.

She is a certified and registered member of NNEdPro Cambridge Summer School in Applied Human Nutrition London UK. Anchored in Cambridge and dedicated to nutrition & health improvement via education, research, evaluation, and advocacy.

Also, she is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Preventive and Regenerative Medicine (A4M) and Functional Medicine in the USA. Functional medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach & engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership.

Plus, she is a speaker at the Society of Inaugural World Congress in Anti-Aging, Aesthetic, Regenerative, Nutritional and Exercise Medicine (WAAARNEM) Malaysia in conjunction with the SAAARMM which is dedicated to reforming healthcare.

And, she is a speaker and a Full time Faculty at the Indian Nutritional Medical Association which is a scientific, non-profit organization of medical systems, and professionals from Nutrition, Agriculture, Environment Science, Genetics, and other related fields.

Dr. Anand Kumar

Dr. Anand Kumar took his MBBS and MD [General Medicine] from Medical College, Trivandrum. He did his post-doctoral training in Neurology at Sere Chaitra Tirumala Institute of Medical Sciences and technology, an Institute of National Importance. After obtaining his DM in Neurology, he joined as faculty in Trivandrum Medical College. After his short tenure in Medical College, in 1989, he joined the Ministry of health, Sharjah as specialist Neurologist. He established the department of Neurology at Al Qassimi and Kuwait hospitals, Sharjah. He relocated to India in 1999 and joined the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, s deemed University. The Neurosciences department at Amrita was started by him and now has the capability of a tertiary care referral center with six formally trained Neurologists and six Neurosurgeons. He has several publications to his credit and has special interest in cognitive neurology. Dr. Anand has also worked in Medical Artificial Intelligence and was member of a team that developed an expert system for epilepsy.

Currently he is working in Bio-spaciology, Intuitive mind development, Medical Artificial Intelligence, Yoga and meditation.

Dr. Praveen Saxena

Dr Saxena is medical graduate & Radiologist from Osmania Medical College ,Hyderabad working in the field Environmental Medicine He is a Proud member of Member SOPMED (USA) ART practioner Dr Klinghardt Academy, STOX , INSLAR ,IMA ,IRIA , Ozone Forum Of India ,WOFT,Faculty International Board Of Clinical Metal Toxicologist IBCMT & ISSMTCT, GLOBAL COALITION For AUTISM autism research institute USA, Advisor to the Akhil Autism . Advisor Leadcon 2017 India.

Over 20 years Dr. Saxena has helped people with chronic health problems using latest advances in complementary & integrative medicine,which emphasizes science based natural therapies in place of surgery & prescription medications. With Vast experience in the field of Radiology ( interventional), he has done extensive work in AUTISM & vaccine safety He adopted chronic disease management programs using novel treatment procedures like Detoxification, metabolic weight loss, nontoxic cancer therapies( immune modulation, nutraceuticals) External counterpulsation (non surgical bypass), Ozone & HYPERBARICS therapy for addressing various ailments The essence of his practice is balancing the physiology and biochemistry at the cellular level by removing toxicity and & correcting oxygen levels.

Dr. Ravi Shanakaran

Professor and Head, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.

Areas of interest:

Spasticity
Disorders of Consciousness
Peripheral nerve injury rehab
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation

Dr. Sreekanth Sundaresh

Consultant orthopaedic surgeon.

Specialist in ozone therapy and pain management.

Dr. Anirudh Rajkumar

Specialist in Bariatric-Metabolic surgeries, Laparoscopic cancer surgeries and complex laparoscopic hernia repair surgeries.

Has a large series of Laparoscopic Revision Bariatric surgeries, and novel bariatric surgeries like SASJ, and SASI.

Among the first in Chennai to use the Swallow balloon for weight loss at Lifeline hospital Chennai.

Also Specialising in scarless, trans umbilical surgeries such as Cholecystectomy, hysterectomy, appendectomy, fundoplication and bariatric surgery.

Among the first in South India to install and use the CMR Versius Robot.

Part of the faculty to mentor surgeons in the CMR robot usage at ARIS society of Robotic surgeons and International MGB-OAGB society.

Has trained over 400 surgeons and gynecologists from all over the country. Has published nearly 30 papers in scientific journals. Among the first to perform emergency laparoscopic surgeries in patients with active COVID19 disease.

Prof. Rangappa KS

Prof Rangappa has made novel and significant contributions to the Chemical Biology-Drug discovery program, Bio-organic and Medicinal Chemistry. His research is characterized by both novelty and innovation. Prof. K. S. Rangappa has developed more than 8000 synthetic small molecules from his laboratory and some of them have been demonstrated as exemplary compounds towards cancer with good growth inhibitory activity in preclinical cancer models. Recently, two of his compounds namely DMBO and NPB have entered the market as standard inhibitors of growth factors and BAD protein respectively. DMBO and NPB compounds are being sold by American companies as standard inhibitors of pharmacologically important proteins. Similarly, he has discovered many pharmacological inhibitors of STAT3, NF-κB, TFF3, human methionyl tRNA synthetases which are constitutively expressed in various human cancers.

Recently, he developed a COVID-19 self- detection kit and submitted it to ICMR for approval and public use. He has served as a Post- doctoral Fellow/Research Associate/Visiting Professor at several universities in Canada (1983-85), USA (1990-92), Germany (1995), Japan (1999-2000, May-July 2005), Korea (2002, 2014), Poland (April-May 2006), Russia (July 2013), Cambridge University, UK (Oct 2013), etc. He has been awarded the D.Sc. degree for independent research contribution (1998).

He is an elected as Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, UK), Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc, India), Fellow of the Biotech Research Society of India (FBRS, India), Fellow of Indian Science Congress (FISC, India), Fellow of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (FINEM, India), Fellow of Karnataka State Science & Technology Academy (FKSTA) and Fellow of The World academy of Sciences (FTWAS).

He has developed several national and international (Indo-Japan, Indo-French, Indo-Germany, Indo-Singapore, Indo-UK, Indo-US, Indo-Korea, Indo-South Africa, Indo-Russia, Indo-Israel, etc.) collaborative research programs with more than 300 scientists working across the globe. He has published over 600 research papers in national and international peer reviewed journals and presented more than 160 research papers in conferences. He holds 10 patents (international and national) in the area of medicinal chemistry. He has been credited with scientific citations over 13000 for his research contributions with an h-index of 61. He has guided 61 candidates for Ph.D. degrees and presently 04 students are working for the doctoral research, He has been ranked among the top 2% of World Scientists in the field of organic chemistry released by Stanford University, USA.

He is a recipient of several prestigious national and international awards including Prof. Y. T. Thathachari prestigious research award for Science (2007) and Dr. Raja Ramanna Award from Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (2011). He has been awarded “2020 Best Paper Award in Biochimie” Conferred by the Elsevier B.V., and French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2022.

He served as a Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore (2013-2017) and Karnataka State Open University (2009-2013). University of Mysore hosted 103rd Indian Science Congress and celebrated centenary year in 2016 under his leadership. Ten Nobel Laureates and hundreds of foreign scientists also participated in 103rd Indian Science Congress and centenary celebrations. He served as a General President of 107th Indian Science Congress and member of the institutional body of five All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) of our country.

He is one of the board of governors of the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Karnataka. He has served as the President of the Forum of Former Vice Chancellors of Karnataka in which all the former Vice Chancellors of Karnataka are the members of this body. Currently Prof Rangappa is serving as a UNIVERSITY Distinguished Professor, CSIR-Emeritus Scientist and Asutosh Mookerjee Fellow at the University Mysore. Now, Prof. Rangappa is the Ambassador of Hokkaido University, Japan.

Dr. Jaideep C Menon

After finishing his post-doctoral in Cardiology from Christian Medical College, Vellore, Jaideep worked as a consultant cardiologist in Little Flower Hospital, Angamaly, from 1999-2009 and as Professor at Sree Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences from 2009-2019. He is now consultant cardiologist at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.

His areas of interest in Cardiology include Preventive Cardiology, Epidemiology of cardio-vascular disease and Heart Failure. Other than cardiology his other area of interest is venomous snakebite. The first national protocol for treatment of venomous snakebite was initiated through his efforts, and of which he is the lead author. He is also the National PI of the ICMR- National Task Force study on the Incidence, morbidity and mortality related to snakebite in India.

He is also a Bernard J Lown scholar of the Harvard school of Public health.

Jaideep is on the expert committee for snakebite - WHO, DBT and ICMR.

NEMCON 2024 Pre-conference

Topics discussed

Innovations in Diabetes Care

InTackling the Obesity Epidemic

Navigating Autoimmune Diseases

Harnessing Data for Precision Health

Pre-conference date and time

Keynote address, FINEM Awards followed by Dinner

Pre-conference workshop

Event highlights

Speakers

Dr. A Sreekumar

Dr. A. Anand Kumar

Prof. K. S. Rangappa

Dr. Anirudh Rajkumar

Dr. Jaideep C Menon

Dr. Ravi Sankaran

Dr. Sreesudha Chepyala

Dr. Leroy Rebello

Dr. Srikanth Sundaresh

Dr. Praveen K Saxena

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