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MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017Dr AK Dubey, Psychiatrist and Medical Superintendent Medanta the Medicity enlightened the participantson how adolescents will do as they see and not as they hear and that good role models are important inadolescent lifeDr. Naresh Trehan also enlightened the entire audience with his words of wisdom.Dr Saurabh Mehrotra, Senior Consultant Medanta the Medicity enlightened the participants on variousaddictions facing teenagers including substance abuse and internet and other screen addictions. He also sharedsome methods for the parents to empower and support their children at this time of transition and how tocreate positive peer support groups.A thrilling quiz competition with the quiz masters Dr. Vipul Rastogi and Mr. Manish Kumar Singh. Thiswas an interactive session and audience specially students also enthusiastically participated throughout thesession.The event was closed with a Vote of Thanks by Dr Pooja Sharma.12

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MIER Activity Compendium 2016-20173 Day workshop on Using SPSS for Data Analysis in Social ScienceSeptember 8 -10, 2017MDRI Conference Room, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurugram, HaryanaIndian Association of Health, Research and welfare (IAHRW) organized 3 days workshop on using SPSS forData Analysis in Social Sciences. The workshop was jointly in collaboration with Medanta Institute ofEducation and Research. Dr. Pooja Sharma, Senior Scientist and Director, MIER was the chief guest duringinauguration. Prof. Padam Singh, Senior Statistician, Medanta-The Medicity was chief guest during thesecond day. Prof. C.R. Darola, Former HOD, Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra university kurukshetra,and Prof. Rajbir Singh, Former HOD, Department of Psychology, MD University Rohtak and Mr. Manish,Statistician, Medanta were the trainers during for the workshop. There were around 40 participants from 6states.14

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-20175 Day CRE Programme on Strategies for Inclusive EducationJuly 21 -25, 2017MDRI Conference Room, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana5 Day CRE Programme on Strategies for Inclusive Education was at Medanta – The Medicity. The programmewas organized by Indian association of Health, Research and Welfare and Medanta Institute of Education &Research. The CRE status was approved by National Institute of Persons with Multiple Disability, Chennai.Dr Pooja Sharma, Senior Scientist was the chief guest on the inaugural function. Dr Atma Ram Bansal,Neurologist and Dr Yeeshu Bansal from Medanta The Medicity were guest of honour during the inauguralsession. Around 40 special educators and counsellors across the country participated in this programme. DrRoma Kumar Psychologist, was the keynote speaker and Dr. Sonal Zarwal, Mr Rajesh Trivedi, SCPwD, NewDelhi, Dr Natasha Khular, Ms Sonal Sachdeva, Springdale School.15

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017Mission Stop Dengue: Stakeholder’s MeetingWorld Health Day: April 7, 2017Auditorium, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurugram, HaryanaDengue is a major public-health concern in the National Capital region with increasing number of cases beingreported every year. It is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease, with a 30-fold increase inglobal incidence over the past 50 years. The National Capital region falls in highly suitable climate for Denguepropagation and thus the highest Dengue risk.The Mission Stop Dengue is a multi-stakeholder effort initiated by Dr Naresh Trehan, MIER and the Medantahospital with the civic administration, research teams and the public to reverse this trend of growing numberof Dengue cases in May 2016. (http://missionstopdengue.in/)In this regard a stakeholder meeting was held on April 7, 2017 (the World Health Day) at the auditoriumMedanta the Medicity, at which the civic administration, key opinion leaders, School and Collegeadministration along with RWA leadership, CSR stakeholders and the media participated to chalk out astrategy to beat Dengue.Dr Sushila Kataria (Director, Medicine Medanta the Medicity) welcomed all the delegates and Dr ShubhankSingh (Project lead, public health initiatives, Medanta the Medicity) shared a small update and video on thejourney of the Mission Stop Dengue since its inception in 2016. Dr Geetha Krishnan (Director Ayurveda and16

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017Integrative Medicine, Medanta the Medicity) presented the various plants and herbs that can be used in theprevention of the breeding of the mosquitoes and individual protection.Launch of webpage: (left to right) Mr. Mannat Wadhera, Sh. Vinay Pratap Singh, Sh. Surajpal Raghav, Dr.Naresh Trehan, Dr. PadamSingh, Dr. Sushila Kataria, Mr. Sudesh KumarDr Pooja Sharma (Senior Scientist, Clinical Research, Medanta the Medicity) and Mr Vaibhav Khurana(Corporate office, Medanta the Medicity) presented the three pronged strategy of the mission -2017 alongwith the proposed geotagging of cases.1.Dengue prevention – by creating awareness and sanitation drives, effective vector controlmeasures to reduce Dengue transmission. Special advocacy and awareness campaigns targeting waterand sanitation and related infrastructure and working with sectors involved in developing products forDengue prevention and control2.Improved outbreak prediction – by coordinated epidemiological and entomologicalsurveillance, deploying locally-adapted vector control measures, including effective urban andhousehold water management; and through communication to achieve behavioural outcomes.3.Early management and tertiary prevention – by use of public information materials to helpfamilies recognize the early warning signs of severe dengue so they seek medical care promptly. Theprogram aims towards creating Dengue hotlines and first response fever vans and thus better clinicalmanagement involving early diagnosis and rehydration.Mr Vinay Pratap Singh, ADC Gurugram presented his vision for Dengue control and promised all support tothis multi-stakeholder effort.17

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017Lamp lighting: (left to right): Dr. Naresh Trehan, Dr. Sushila Kataria, Sh. Vinay Pratap Singh, Sh. SurajpalRaghav, Sh. Sudesh KumarHe agreed that cleanliness drives are critical and that they should be timed before the monsoon strikes. He hasagreed that at least two ‘clean days’ will be planned all over Gurugram before the Monsoon strikes. He sharedthat the civic administration was also tagging cases of Dengue and that both the efforts should synchronize.He commended the timeliness of the effort and promised all support towards the same.The lamp lighting ceremony by the dignitaries marked the pledge taken by all participants to stop the menaceof Dengue in Gurugram this year.Dr Naresh Trehan (CMD, Medanta the Medicity) shared his vision for the Mission Stop Dengue and said thatwe were committed to health for all and that Gurugram should rid itself of the Menace of Dengue by all thestakeholders working together. He also shared his experiences with Dengue and malaria prevention andresearch and commended all partners for their enthusiasm.The tea break was followed by the stakeholders meeting in which all stakeholders presented their commitmentto activities to stop Dengue.Discussion points with various stakeholders were as follows:RWAsThe Gurugram Citizens Council proposed the creation of a task force in the 4 zones of Gurugram andconducting zone wise activities with the support of the council, adoption of local neighbouring areas by theschools, creation of flying squads for identification of breeding grounds, better waste management andinspection of water harvesting plants before the monsoon, organising Programs and sharing information on18

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017the web portals and through residents and conducting training of Dengue Champions coordinated with theMission Stop Dengue team.Schools, Colleges and Research institutesAll committed to participating in training of Dengue Champions coordinated with the Mission Stop DengueteamMCG, Health Department to plan activities of 2017 in advance with multi-sectoral participation.Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakaram to associate with special assemblies and projects in governmentschools.Gems Education Group: Plan to hold special assemblies and projects, share the information about these ontheir websites and through student groups. Adopt local neighbouring areas, and also do video promotion inother GEMS Schools to raise dengue related awareness amongst kids.Lotus Valley International School: Conduct special assemblies and programs and share information on theweb portals and through student flash mobs.Alpine Convent School: Conduct IEC activities, and special assemblies to raise awareness for dengueprevention along with Mission Stop Dengue team.Amity University –Create a plan for identification of the Dengue virus in the containers of differenthouseholds and to submit the report to the Health department.KIIT, Bhondsi – Create a project around monitoring quality of water and breeding grounds identification.Apeejay Stya University: Perform trends analysis to see the last few year’s data to identify potential hotspots.National Institute of Malaria Research: Develop material for Training of trainers around Dengue,Chikungunya and Malaria.Media partners:NDTV: To air a 30 sec awareness video on TVIndia News: to cover all IEC activities and events in their news coverage.Gurgaon Connect: To share stories on the Dengue awareness through their various channelsCollaboratorsDLF Foundation: Committed to 5 fever vans to assist with the awareness and hotspot activitiesResident Welfare Associations to join this initiative and organise sessions in the respective RWAs19

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017Support to develop the awareness material and display the same in their commercial complexes, cinemas andmetro hoardings etc.Mortein: To support the IEC activities, conduct eventsFirst Eat: To support the IEC activities in corporates in their Wellness programs, engage with KOLsGurugram Administration:To support the development of the geotagging systems and the hotline to the administration from MissionStop Dengue team.To initiate celebration of at least 2 clean days in Gurugram before the Monsoons hit.Mr Pankaj Sahni (COO, Medanta the Medicity) felt that as India has beaten Polio with the effort of multiplestakeholders similarly Dengue can be beaten in Gurugram and thanked all participants for their enthusiasticsupportNext Steps:1. Identification of dengue champions in the RWA and schools2. Training of Trainers/champions to be conducted to take the Mission stop Dengue Message to theindividual3. A geotagging plan to be created with the administration to tag each case of Dengue (with residence andplace or work or residence and school).This effort to be coordinated among all hospitals and nursinghomes of Gurugram)4. Awareness material to be created and circulated5. Creation of a Mission Stop Dengue Helpline for health issues and a Mission Stop Dengue hotline foraction on identified breeding grounds and hotspots6. Mission Stop Dengue First Response Fever Vans for the identified hotspots7. EDGE newsletter –quarterly. This will also have the pictures of the doctors / volunteers giving trainingto all the schools, residents, etc. The same is disseminated through dlf Cybercity customer care to allthe clients operating from here.8. E-mailer –on email ids of the clients and corporates along with video link9. Wats app video, same can be played in Cyberhub screens and movie theaters10. Cybercity website to promote Mission Stop Dengue11. Dos and Donts to reach the 3 lacs employees coming and going out of Cybercity.12. Promotion in shuttle buses.13. Connect with Rapid Metro and seek their support to outreach all the metro commuters.20

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017MIER Hands-on Workshop: Bio-Statistics (MS-EXCEL)Date: Feb 11, 2017Auditorium, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurugram, HaryanaOn February 11, 2017, the Medanta Institute of Education and Research hosted a workshop on Bio-Statistics(MS-EXCEL).The workshop started with the lamp lighting ceremony by the dignitaries Dr Sanjay Mittal, Dr Padam Singh,Dr V.R. Gupta, Dr Tulsi Adhikari, Dr Rajesh Gupta and Mr.Satyendra Keshari.Dr Sanjay Mittal (Sr. Director Clinical Cardiology & Research), inaugurated the workshop and thediscussion was started on the topic: Electronic Hospital Information System by Dr. Rajesh Gupta, GeneralManager in Department of Information Technology at Medanta-The Medicity. The other speakers were: Dr.Padam Singh, Dr. V R Gupta, Dr. Tulsi Adhikari, Dr Paras, Mr. Satyendra Keshari and Mr. Manish K Singh.The purpose of the workshop was to bring together all the key Investigators, Clinical Researchers,Academicians, Ethics Committee members, Clinical Research students and Nursing Staff members togetherunder one roof to trained the participants in (MS-EXCEL) for Descriptive Statistics and Graphs.53 workshopparticipants representing MIER-ICRI, Amity University, Apeejay Satya University and different departmentsof Medanta including Microbiology, Radiology, Integrative Medicine (Ayurveda), Anaesthesia, Urology, etc.actively took part in the workshop.After the tea break, Dr Tulsi Adhikari, Research Officer and Scientist from National Institute of MedicalStatistics, Delhi addressed the audience on Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Central Tendency &Dispersion. Dr Paras from Medanta Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes gave a presentation on choosingthe Appropriate Graph. He made it to understand the audience with a wonderful presentation that why is itimportant to choose the right graph.21

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017After knowing the importance of right graph, audience was informed about how to create different types ofgraphs with formatting in MS-EXCEL by Mr. Satyendra Keshari, Statistician, TRIOs DevelopmentSupport, Pvt. Ltd.Mr. Manish K Singh, Bio-Statistician, Medanta Institute of Education & Research further took over thesession by addressing the audience about Data Gaps, Outliers, Coding, Grouping / Categorization.With Mr. Manish Singh presentation, first half of the session was over followed by a lunch break.Dr Padam Singh felicitated all the speakers of the workshop with an Ayurvedic plant- vasica.The second half of the workshop started with a thrilling Hands-on Exercise in which the participants weredivided into three teams naming A, B and C. Each team included 11 participants which actively took part inthe exercise and enjoyed working on different sets of data on MS-EXCEL.The workshop ended with a Vote of Thanks by Dr Padam Singh.22

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017MIER: International Bioethics Day Celebration WorkshopDate: Oct 19, 2016Auditorium, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurugram, HaryanaOn October 19, 2016, the Medanta Institute of Education and Research hosted a half -day workshop entitled“MIER: International Bioethics Day Celebration Workshop” with the theme ‘Patient First- today andalways’.The purpose of the workshop was to bring together all stakeholders of clinical research- esteemed andexperienced Investigators, Students from different universities, and Academia and Ethics Committeemembers together under one roof.The 65 workshop participants representing 9 different Universities / Organizations namely MIER –ICRI,Apeejay Satya University, Amity university, Apollo (AHERF), Geenbandhu, Cankids, National BrainResearch Institute (NBRC), Jamia Hamdard University and Galgotia University enthusiastically tookpart in the workshop.Ms Meenakshi Kafaltiawelcomed the participants and briefed about the theme of the workshop and introducedthe guest of honor Dr. Asha Chandola Saklani and other dignitaries including Dr. R. R. Kasliwal, Dr. YatinMehta, Dr. A. K. Dubey Dr. Sanjay Mittal and Dr. Pooja Sharma inaugurated the event by ‘lighting thelamp’.The guest of honorand other dignitaries were felicitated with an ayurvedic Plant Plumbagozeylanica(Chitrak) by Dr. Pooja Sharma, Senior Scientist MIER.The Dr. Asha Chandola Saklani (Dean, School of Biosciences, Apeejay Stya University) presented viewson ‘Bioethics: the spirit, science and policy’.Dr. Yatin Mehta Chairman - Institute of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medanta-The Medicity shared hisviews on “Bioethics in Research: Investigator’s perspective”23

MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017It was followed by Dr. R. R. Kasliwal–Chairman of Clinical & Preventive Cardiology and Chairman ofMedanta Institutional Review Board speech on ‘Bioethics : An Overview’Dr AK Dubey Medical Superintendent and the Member secretary of Medanta Institutional Ethics Committee,Medanta the Medicity enlightened the participants on ‘Bioethics in Research: Experience at MedantaInstitutional Ethics Committee’, Dr. Sanjay Mittal – Sr. Director, Clinical Cardiology & Researchexpressed his views on ‘Recent controversies in research and ways forward’.The second half of the event started with a thrilling quiz competition with the quiz masters Mr. ManishKumar Singh and Mr. Joby George. This was an interactive session comprising 4 rounds and audience alsoenthusiastically participated throughout the session.Jamia Hamdard University was declared as the winner of the quiz followed by Apollo (AHERF) as runner upfor the quiz. The trophies to winner team and runner up team was given by none other than Patron of theevent. Dr. Naresh Trehan, CMD, Medanta-The Medicity.The event was concluded with a Vote of Thanks by Ms. Pallavi Priya24

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MIER Activity Compendium 2016-2017Innovators inspire research and MIER with its vision to promote research has invited several innovators,clinician scientists and experts in their areas to share their journeys with the younger researchers. The list ofthe sessions is as follows:Name Of SpeakerDr. Amit MehndirattaDateMarch 2, 2017Research Beyond Boundaries:Journey of

Research internship and training program Apeejay Stya University Students from the Apeejay Stya University for their research internships: Three students in 2015 and two in 2016 have interned with us. Research internship and training program Amity University Three students of Clinical Research have interned with us in 2017