Chairman, Scientific Committee
Dr. S.R. Aravind

Themes for Theme Symposia at RSSDI 2010

MMS Ahuja symposium - Type 2 Diabetes of Young

Nutrition section - Nutritional aspects of Obesity and Diabetes

Please collect data on above themes and send your data to Chairman, Scientific Committee, 38th Annual Conference of RSSDI to be held at Kochi from November 18th - 20th , 2010.

Please send all abstracts by E-mail only, on or before 31st August, 2010 to Chairman Scientific Committee.  

Call for applications for RSSDI Orations 2010

Certificate Course in Diabetology

RSSDI will be approving /accrediting centers/institutes who wish to start certificate course in Diabetology.

      All interested centers with necessary infrastructure and expertise as specified may write to the RSSDI Secretariat expressing their interest and seeking accreditation / inspection by an RSSDI team for the purpose. For further details visit www.rssdi.in

Institutes accredited for conducting The RSSDI Certificate Course in Diabetology (January 2010)

In addition to the 2 centers already accredited in 2009 the following 2 centers have also been accredited by RSSDI:

• DR.MOHAN'S DIABETES SPECIALITIES CENTRE & DR. MOHAN'S DIABETES EDUCATION ACADEMY ,Chennai Course Director: Dr. V.Mohan
• PRITHVI HOSPITAL, Tumkur , Karnataka Course Director: Dr. T.S. Shashidhara
• B ANGLORE HOSPITAL, Bengaluru Course Director: Prof. C. Munichoodappa Accredition of 4 other centers is under process.

Several activities have been conducted by various state chapters of RSSDI this year. Some of these are:

Delhi Chapter

• * 5th Annual Conference of RSSDI, Delhi Chapter was held on 20th Sep, 2009 at Hotel Hyatt regency . This was a day long conference attended by over 350 delegates from Delhi and NCR. The theme of the conference was “Pre-Diabetes” and various facets of this condition were discussed in the form of lectures and panel discussions. Two guest speakers from outside delhi were invited namely Prof. S.K. Singh from Varanasi and Dr.Sanjay Kalra from Karnal.
• * One bi monthly CME was conducted on 13th December 2009 . This included a talk on “Future Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” and a research data presentation on “Microalbuminuria in newly detected type 2 diabetes patients” by St. Stephens hospital .

Further CMEs in NCR are being planned.

Karnataka Chapter

• * CME on 3rd july 2009 - This was attended by over 100 delegates at Taj Residency, Bangalore. Dr. Lebovitz from USA was among the international faculty.
  
  
• * CME on 25th July 2009 was held at Hotel Capitol Bangalore .Guest speakers included Dr. M. Ranganath. from USA.
  
  
• * 5th Anuual state conference of the Reasearch Society for the Study of Diabetes in India Karnataka chapter was held on 12th and 13th September,2009 in Shimoga
  
  
• * CME at Athani, in Belgaum district on 26th December 2009 on Gestational Diabetes and Diabetic foot.
  
  
• * Diabetes Health camp was held at Shrigeri in association with Diabetes Club on 23rd & 24th January 2010.

Kerala Chapter

• * CME was conducted on 12th July at Kottayam
  
  
• * Second quarterly conference of RSSDI, Kerala Chapter was held on 1st November 2009. The theme of the conference was “Diabetes and its complications” and the scientific programme covered a wide range of topics by eminent speakers on this theme.
  
  
• * The next CME meet will be held on 7th March, 2010 at Ottapalam, Palghat, Kerala
  
  
• * The 38th Annual Conference of RSSDI in 2010 is being conducted by Kerala Chapter in November this year.

West Bengal Chapter

• * 1 day Workshop/ Seminar on "Research Methodologies in Diabetes" was held on 19th September, 2009.About 40 post graduate and post doctoral students/trainees from different Medical Colleges of Kolkata, West Bengal attended the program. Three eminent national faculty (including Prof. K.M. Prasanna kumar, President RSSDI) along with three other local faculty conducted the programme which was very well appreciated.
  
  
• * A patient education programme was held on the occasion of World Diabetes Day.
  
  
• * CME was held on 18th Jan 2010 consisting of 2 talks - “Wound healing in Diabetes” by Dr Sujoy Ghosh, Kolkata and “Glycaemic Control in Critical Care” by Prof. Nikhil Tandon, New Delhi

Gujrat Chapter

• * Gujrat chapter organized the 37th Annual Conference of RSSDI at Ahmedabad in November, 2009.
  
  
• * A highly successful Diabetes Walk was organised by Gujrat State Chapter on the occasion of the RSSDI Annual Conference to create awareness of diabetes among the people. About 10,000 people participated in the walk.
  
  
• * Next CME of the Chapter is planned for March 2010. •

Andhra Pradesh Chapter

• * Following the organization of the 36th annual scientific meeting of RSSDI at Hyderabad in 2008, the AP chapter saved and contributed to RSSDI a sum of Rs. 1.1 crores. This was appreciated by one and all.
  
  
• * CME on Dec 13th, 2009 at Hyderabad in which Dr.GR Sridhar President, RSSDI delivered the first Annual Oration of AP chapter of RSSDI on “Translating Information to Knowledge - Experience from Clinical Diabetes”.
  
  
• * One day symposium on Diabetes is planned in march 2010.

Maharashtra Chapter

• The Annual conference of RSSDI Maharashtra Chapter will be held from Feb 5Th -7th , 2010 at Shivaji University, Kolhapur.

We welcome all new members of the RSSDI who have been registered after July 2009. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our support and encouragement to one and all. We hope that you will find this organisation of ours as an extended family and wish that you achieve great success in life. We wish you all the very best and look forward to your active participation and valuable contribution in the organisation that would help us all to grow and achieve greater heights.