Greetings from JSS Executive,

The first monthly meeting of JIPMER Scientific Society of 2017-18 will be held at

Superspeciality auditorium on 21 st July afternoon at 3 PM.

I) The JSS Lead Talk by Dr Arun Alexander, Additional Professor and Head, Dept of ENT

The gift of Hearing- JIPMER Cochlear Implant programme

II) Original papers – 2 in number (8 minutes presentation followed by 3 minutes discussion. The papers selected are listed below

1. Effect of metformin on exercise capacity in treatment naïve type 2 diabetes mellitus

G.Vikneswaran, Sandhiya, Sadishkumar, Kadhiravan, Steven A Dkhar

Departments of Clinical Pharmacology, Endocrinology and General Medicine

2. Distinction of hepatocellular carcinoma from its mimics on fine needle aspiration cytology – morphology and immunocytochemistry

Mangesh Chikhale, Pampa Ch Toi, Neelaiah Siddaraju, A. Ramesh.

Department of Pathology

III) Case reports: 3 in number (5 minutes presentation with 2 minutes discussion)

1.Bilateral Primary Neuro endocrine carcinoma of breast in a young female patient: A rare case report

Jogamaya Pattnaik, Smita Kayal, Biswajit Dubashi, Ranjit CS, Ponraj M, Naresh Jadhav,Jagdeep Singh, B.H.Srinivas.

Department of Medical Oncology and Department of Pathology.

2.An uncommon complication of a common medication-Cotrimoxazole

Dr Rajalakshmi Selvaraj, Dr Subashini Kaliaperumal, Dr Mada Harika

Department of Ophthalmology

3. Massive gastric necrosis in an infant: Is salvage possible?

Dr.R.Reshma Devika, Mallikarjun Utagi, Krishna Kumar Govindarajan, Narayanan Parameshwaran

Departments of Paediatric Surgery & Paediatrics.

IV) Medical Quiz by Dr Abhishek B

Followed by High Tea

Note:All the authors must mandatorily be members of JSS. Membership form

available in www.jipmer.edu.in (Contact Dr. Hegde, Asst Professor ENT)

jsstreasurer[at]gmail[dot]com, Mobile – 9843374639 for membership). Kindly quote

membership number next to names for inclusion in Abstract booklet and Credit

points from JIPMER.