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Awards/Recognitions/Honours received by Faculty Members of
Sri Ramachandra University during last 5 years – 2006 to March 2013

I. Padma Shri Award:
1) Dr. S. Thanikachalam, Chairman and Director Cardiac Care Centre
2) Dr. C. U. Velmurugendran, Chairman and Director, Dept. of Neurology

II. Hari Om Ashram Award (2000) for Outstanding Scientist by UGC
Dr. Kalapna Balakrishnan, Head of the EHE Department

III. Dr. B.C. Roy National Awards in Medicine:
1) Dr. S. Thanikachalam, Chairman and Director, Cardiac Care Centre.
2) Dr. C. U. Velmurugendran, Chairman and Director, Dept. of Neurology
3) Dr. R. Ponnudrai, Professor and Head, Dept. of Psychiatry.
4) Dr.T.P.R. Bharadwaj, Prof. of Haematology, in the category of Eminent Medical Teacher.

IV. Honorary Doctorates:
1) Dr. C.U. Velmurugendran, Chairman and Director, Dept. of Neurology D.Sc. (Honoris causa)
by the University of Madras and the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University.
2) Dr. S.S.K. Marthandam, Chairman and Director, Orthopaedic Centre. D.Sc.(Honoris causa) by
the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University.
3) Dr. S. Thanikachalam, Chairman and Director, Cardiac Care Centre. D.Sc. by the Tamil Nadu
Dr. MGR Medical University.

V. International awards:
1) Dr. S. P. Thyagarajan, Director & Chief Advisor (Research), was conferred with the, “Italian
Chavaeliar Award of International Educational Co-operation” by Government of Italy in
October, 2007.

2) Dr. S. P. Thyagarajan, Pro-Chancellor (Research) was nominated by WHO- European centre
for Environment & Health Bonn, as reviewer & member of the working group for the WHO
publication, “WHO guidelines on indoor air quality: dampness and mould” in July 2009
3) Prof. P.V. Ramachandran, Chairman, Nursing Education. Florence Nightingale Award by the
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA:
4) Dr. J. S. N. Murthy, Professor & Head of the Cardiology Department was conferred with the
Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Glasgow University on 10th November
2010.
5) Prof. Asha Moorthy, Consultant Cardiologist Lifetime Achievement Award in Cardiology by the
World Congress on Clinical, Preventive and Geriatric Cardiology:
6) Dr.Kalpana Balakrishnan, Department of Environmental Health Engineering was awarded
‘Wireless innovation project award’ by Vodafone Americas foundation, California, USA.
7) Prof. Melani Rajendran was awarded D Sc degree by the Open International University for
Complementary Medicine in Malaysia in April 2009.
8) Prof. B.W.C.Sathiyasekaran, Department of Community Medicine was nominated as the Editor
in Chief of CITI India program in 2010.
9) Prof. Preetham Arthur, Department of General Medicine was conferred FRCP by the Royal
College of Physicians of Glasgow in July 2009.
10) Dr. Padmanabhan is the President elect of Asian Academy of osseointegration.
11) Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan, Department of Environmental Health Engineering has been
nominated to serve as the Regional Editor for “Environmental Health Perspectives”, the official
journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA.
12) Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan, Department of Environmental Health Engineering served as
member, Expert Panel for Food-borne disease burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG)
and as Temporary Advisor, UNIDO for Global Energy Assessment Report Lead Authors
meeting in Vienna, Austria in June 2009.
13) Department of Telemedicine is selected to execute the Pan-African E-Network programme of
Government of India for African countries on Tele-Health and Tele-CME.
14) Prof. Sunil Shroff represented India at the International Forum to formulate guidelines on living
kidney donor held at Amsterdam.
15) The first prize of the ‘Asian Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics Young Interventionist
Award’ was presented to Dr. G. Sengottuvelu, Associate Professor, Department of Cardiology
by Prof. Yean Leng Lim of the University of Melbourne in recognition of a challenging
angioplasty procedure performed.
16) Sri Ramachandra University has been recognized as a Regional Training Center of the
American Heart Association for Provider and Instructor courses in Basic Life Support,
Advanced Cardiac Life Support & Pediatric Advanced Life Support.
17) Sri Ramachandra University has been recognized as a training center and member of the
College of Emergency Medicine (MCEM), UK
18) Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan has been selected to serve in three international technical
committees; two for the World Health Organization and one for the UN Global Energy
Assessment Program.
19) Dr.J.S.N. Murthy was awarded Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC)
Fellowship at 2nd AICT, New Delhi.
20) American Association for Respiratory Care and American Respiratory Care Foundation
presented an International fellowship award in Respiratory Care at Las Vegas in Dec. 2006 to
Prof. Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaraan, Department of Pulmonary Medicine.
21) The World Health Organisation has selected Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan to serve as one of the
lead authors for the 2005 Edition of The WHO Air Quality Guidelines to be presented in the
United Nations World Health assembly in 2007.
22) Professor S. Arumugam, Professor and Head of the Department of Arthroscopy and Sports
Medicine was awarded Fellow qua Surgeon title of the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Glasgow on 1st June 2011.
VI. National Awards/Honours:

The following were honoured by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University
Life time achievement award:-
Dr. S.P.Thyagarajan, Pro-Chancellor (Research)
Prof. S. Thanikachalam, Chairman & Director, Cardiac Care Center
Dr.J.S.N. Murthy, Professor & Head, Cardiology
Prof.P.V.Ramachandran, Chairman, Nursing Education, College of Nursing
Dr. Rajeswari Vaidyanathan , Principal, College of Nursing
Dr. P.Soundararajan, Professor and Head, Nephrology
Prof. Asha Moorthy, Professor and Head, Cardiology
Distinguished Orthopaedic Surgeon award:-
Prof. A.Chandrasekaran, Dept. of Orthopaedics

Best Doctor award:-
Prof. S. Arumugam, Professor & Head of the department of Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine.
Dr. K.Selvakumar, Professor & Head, Neurosurgery
Prof. P.Ramachandran, Dept. of Paediatrics
Prof. P.Gopinath Menon, Professor of Orthopaedics
Prof. R.Dorai Kumar, Professor of Orthopaedics
Prof. S.Sundar, Professor of Orthopaedics
Dr. Karthik Kailash, Head spine surgery
Dr. Srinivasan Rajappa, Assoc. Professor of Orthopaedics
Dr. N.Jambu, Assoc. Professor of Orthopaedics

Best teacher award:-
Dr.T.R.Muralidharan, Professor of Cardiology
Prof.P.V.Vijayaraghavan, Professor & Head, Orthopaedics
Prof. Venkatesh, Principal, College of Physiotherapy
Prof. P.M.Venkat Sai, Professor & Head, Radiology

(cid:1) Dr.J.S.N. Murthy, Professor & Head, Dept. of Cardiology, received NBE Alumnus Award” – National
Board of Examinations – February 2012.
(cid:1) Dr.C.U.Velmurugendran, Chairman & Director, Neurocare Centre from his alma-mater by Madras
Medical College – June 2012
(cid:1) Dr.J.S.N. Murthy, Vice-Chancellor conferred the Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP),
Edinburgh, U.K. – October 2012
(cid:1) Dr.J.K.Giriraj, Assoc. Professor, Department of Orthopaedics awarded the IOA-JMRF Paediatric
Orthopaedics Fellowoship by Indian Orthipaedic Association – December 2012
(cid:1) Prof. S. Arumugam, Professor and head of the department of Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine was
awarded Fellow qua Surgeon title of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow on 1st
June 2011.
(cid:1) Prof.P.V.Vijayaraghavan, Professor & Head Dept. of Orthopaedics, was elected as Vice-President,
Indian Orthopaedic Association in November, 2011.
(cid:1) Dr. T.V.Padmanabhan, Professor & Head, Dept. of Prosthodontics, Sri Ramachandra Dental College
took over as the President of the Asian Academic of Prosthodontics (AAP). He is the first Indian to hold
this prestigious post.
1) Dr. S. P. Thyagarajan , Director & chief Advisor (Research), was conferred with
“Dr.P.N.ChhuHani Oration Award” by National Academy of Medical Science(NAMS), in 2007.

2) Dr. S. P. Thyagarajan , Director & Chief Advisor (Research), Sri Ramachandra University was
conferred with “Dr. Anantibai Joshi Memorial Award” by University of Mumbai, in 2007.

3) Dr. S. P. Thyagarajan , Pro Chancellor (Research), Sri Ramachandra University, from 2008 till
date was nominated as Chairman of MHRD/UGC committees on UGC Regulations on:

(i) Pay Scales & Minimum Standards for Appointment of Teachers

(ii) Minimum standards for M.Pil / Ph.D

(ii) Mandatory Accreditation of Universities / Colleges

(iv) Affiliation Norms for colleges and

(v) MHRD committee on Strengthening of Basic Science Research in Universities/ College

(vi) Approach Paper/Road Map for Higher Educational for 12th plan etc.

4) Innovators Competitition Award at the DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth
Programme 2009: for developing the technology for ‘Nanopolymer coating of coronary stent’ to:
Prof. T.R. Muralidharan, Cardiac Care Centre.
i) Dr. Preetam Arthur, Professor, Dept. of Medicine
ii) Dr. J.S.N. Murthy, Professor of Cardiology
5) Dr. Ravi M. was elected for the Membership of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad.
6) Dr. Walter Charles Emmanuel Jebaraj, Associate Professor, received the “ICMR’s Young
Biomedical Scientist International Fellowship for the Year 2010” - Council of ICMR - Stanford
University Medical Centre, California, USA - May 1st to 2nd November, 2010
7) Bhaskar LVKS., Assistant Professor was nominated as Associate Editor of International
Journal of Parasitology Research - Bioinfo Publications, India: October, 2010
8) Bhaskar LVKS., Assistant Professor was nominated as Associate Editor of Advances in
Medical Informatics - Bioinfo Publications, India: October, 2010
9) Prof. A. Ravikumar, Department of ENT was elected as Member of the National Academy of
Medical Sciences in October 2009.
10) Dr. Krishna Seshadri, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism was honored to
deliver the B.N.Shah Oration (Endocrine Society of India) for the year 2009 at Udaipur in
October 2009. He was also nominated as a member of the Editorial Board of “Clinical Update in
Diabetes” a quarterly journal published by the Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India.
11) Dr. P. Sampath Kumar, Department of Forensic Medicine was elected as Vice President of the
Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine.
12) Prof. N.Sanjeeva Reddy, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology was elected as Vice
President of OGSSI in April 2009.
13) Dr. Sunil Shroff, Department of Urology was invited to deliver the Oration in connection with
Post-Centenary Platinum Jubilee Celebration of Madras Medical College in November 2009.
14) Dr. T.V.Padmanabhan Head of the Department of Prosthodontics was elected as President of
Indian Prosthodontics Society.
15) Mr. P.V.Ramachandran, Chairman, Nursing Education received the ‘National Florence
Nightingale Award for Nursing Personnel 2009’ initiated by the Nursing Division of the Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare from the Honorable President of India in May 2009.
16) Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan, Department of Environmental Health Engineering was nominated by
the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt of India to serve as a member for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 5th Assessment Report (IPCC AR 5, 2013)
17) Dr. S. Senthil Kumar, Department of Allied Health Sciences received ‘Dr. M.M.Cooper
Memorial award’ instituted by the Association of Anatomists of Tamil Nadu for the year 2009.
18) Dr. Prakash Boominathan, Ms. Sembagavalli M & Mr. Subramaniyan B, Department of Speech
Language & Hearing Sciences received the ‘Muktesh Award’ for best paper in Language in the
Indian Speech & Hearing Association Conference in Bangalore in January 2010.
19) Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan, Head of the Department of Environmental Health Engineering
received the ‘Outstanding Scientist in Public Health’ award from the Public Health Foundation
of India.
20) Prof. S. Viswanathan, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology received the IIRSI Medal in
recognition of his services rendered to Ophthalmology in September 2008 at Mumbai.
21) Prof. Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaran received the Indian Chest Society ‘ICS Oration award 2008’
at NAPCON ’08 held at Lucknow in November 08 for her contributions in the field of pulmonary
medicine.
22) Prof. Roopa Nagarajan, Department of Speech Language & Hearing Sciences was nominated
as the President of Indian Speech and Hearing Association for the year 2008.
23) Prof. Umamaheswara Reddy, Principal, Pharmacy College was honored as Fellow of
Biotechnology and Pharmacy during the 2nd Annual convention of Association of Biotechnology
and Pharmacy at Bangalore.
24) Dr. K. Selvakumar, Department of Neurosurgery was elected as a member of Telemedicine
Task Force committee, Govt. of India for 2008-2009. Dr. Selvakumar continues to serve as a
member in the Implementation Committee for Telemedicine, Ministry of Science and
Technology, Govt. of India.
25) Prof. Roopa Nagarajan was the recipient of “Dr. Rathna Oration Award” at the 39th Indian
Speech and Hearing Association Conference on 20th January 2007.
26) Prof. A G Dhandapani, Principal of the College of Physiotherapy received the award of
Excellence during the International conference of Manual Therapists on 28.10.06 at New Delhi.
27) Dr.R.K.Bagadi, HOD, Paediatric Surgery was awarded Rajasthan Sree Award for best medical
services to the society.
28) Dr.S.Arumugam received the ‘Appreciation Award’ by Committee for Golden Jubilee
Conference of Indian Orthopaedic Association in the field of Arthroscopy at Mumbai, December
2005
29) Prof. P. Sampath Kumar was elected as Joint Secretary (IAFM) of the Governing Council of
Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, and Vice-President of Tamil Nadu Medico
Legal Society.
30) Prof.S.Thanikachalam has been appointed as the Member of the Governing body of the Indian
Council of Medical Research, New Delhi (2003-2006).
31) Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan has been nominated as a member of the Local Area Environment
Committee to serve under the direction of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee, Govt. of
India.
32) Dr. Hannah R Vasanthi was awarded Young Scientist Fellowship under the SERC Scheme of
Fast Tract Proposal for Young Scientists (DST, Govt. of India, New Delhi).

33) Dr.Asha Moorthy is the1st Women Cardiologist to get Fellow of Indian College of Cardiologist
(FICC) 2005.
34) Prof.C.U.Velmurugendran has been awarded the Fellowship of the National Academy of
Medical Sciences (India) - FAMS
VII. Regional/State level Awards:
1) Dr. S. P. Thyagarajan , Director & Chief Advisor (Research), Sri Ramachandra University was
conferred with “Diamond Star Award” by Indian Medical Association Tamil Nadu on 4/11/2007
2) Tamil Nadu Scientist Award by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science & Technology to Prof.
P. Rajendran, Professor of Microbiology.
3) Young Scientist Award by the ICRB NISRRO 2010 to Mr Chinna Durai Mani, Research scholar,
dept of Human Genetics.
4) Prof. Dr. Sir Anton Jayasuriya Memorial Award of Excellence by the World congress on Holistic
Medicine to Dr. Melani Rajendran, Professor of Anatomy
5) D. Jagadeswaran, Tutor in Dialysis Technology was awarded the Medal of Honor for Teaching
and Research by the National Foundation for Entrepreneurship development, Chennai in
September 2010.
6) Prof. C. U. Velmurugendran was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award, Stanley Medical
College, Chennai, 2010.
7) Prof. P.V. Ramachandran, Chairman Nursing Education and Prof. Dr. Rajeswari Vaidyanathan,
Principal were awarded The Eminent Nursing Teacher Award by the Dean, Madras Medical
College, Chennai on 27th February 2010.
8) Dr. S. Senthil Kumar, Department of Allied Health Sciences, won the Dr. M. M Cooper
Memorial Award for the Best Paper presented in the 32nd Annual Conference of Association of
Anatomists, Tamil Nadu held in Karpaga Vinayaga Institute of Medical and Dental Sciences,
Maduranthagam, September 2010.
9) Mr. Jagadeswaran, Tutor, received Medal of Honor for Teaching and Research on the eve of
Teacher’s Day celebration at the National Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development on 5th
September 2010
10) Prof. Melani Rajendran received the Dr. M.M.Cooper Memorial award and Dr.Arumugam
Krishnamurti award from the Association of Anatomists of Tamil Nadu for the year 2005.
11) Dr. Sumathi Latha, Department of Anatomy received Dr. M.M.Cooper memorial award the
award from the Association of Anatomists of Tamil Nadu.
12) Prof. S.Arumugam, Department of Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine received the “Outstanding
Personality Award” from the Indian Medical Association, Vellore in August 2009.
13) Dr.P. Soundararajan was awarded ‘Pondicherry Chief Minister – Rotary Excellence award’ for
Tsunami Relief Camp conducted in Pondicherry.
14) Dr. S. Senthil Kumar, Department of Allied Health Sciences received Dr. M.M.Cooper Memorial
award instituted by the Association of Anatomists of Tamil Nadu for the year 2009.
15) Ms. V.Supriya, Department of Clinical Nutrition Tutor, won the Gold Medal & Award for the Best
Poster (Dialysis) instituted by the Indian Association of Nephrology Southern Chapter in ISNSC
CON-2010 held in Puducherry in February 2010.
16) Prof. Jyotsna Murthy, Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery received the
Dr.K.S.Sanjivi Award 2008 instituted by the Confederation of Indian Organization for Services
and Advocacy and Udavum Ullangal, Chennai for her exceptional contribution in plastic
surgery to the poor and needy.
17) Prof. D. Prathiba, Professor and head of the Department of Pathology was conferred with the
‘Life Time Achiever Award’ by the Chengalpattu Medical College Alumni Association in
recognition of her outstanding academic achievements
18) Dr.SSK.Marthandam was awarded “Life Time Achievement Award” on 30.04.06 by the Indian
Medical Association at Vellore.
19) Prof.P.V.Ramachandran, Chairman, Nursing Education was awarded “Life Time Achievement
Award” 17th July 2011 by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University.
20) Prof.Rajeswari Vaidyanathan, Principal, College of Nursing was awarded “Life Time
Achievement Award” 17th July 2011 by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University.
21) Dr.S.Thanikachalam, Chairman & Director, Cardiac Care Centre was awarded “Life Time
Achievement Award” 5th September 2011 by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University.
22) Dr.P.V.Vijayaraghavan, Professor & Head, Depat. Of Orthopaedics was awarded “Best
Teacher Award” 5th September 2011 by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University.
23) Prof.N.Venkatesh, Principal, College of Physiotherapy was awarded “Best Teacher Award” 5th
September 2011 by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University.
24) Dr.S.P.Thyagarajan, Pro-Chancellor (Research) was awarded “Life Time Achievement Award”
3rd November 2011 by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University.
VIII. Faculty Best Paper awards/orations:
1) Prof. K. Selva kumar - Delivered lectures on Improving Accessibility of Care & Health outcomes
for Rural communities in Telemedicine and was panelist for “Can Telemedicine be transformed
into a profitable value add?” at the International conference of “Innovations in Health care
Management and Informatics” held in February 2010 in Singapore & Delivered the
Prof.P.Narendran Oration on “Vegetative state in Neurosurgery and the application of
Telemedicine” in March, 2010 in Madras Medical College.
2) Dr. G. Moorthy, Assistant Professor won the Best Paper Award – ‘Laproscopic Management of
Ovarian pathology in children’, CCPS Meet of Chennai City Pediatric Surgeons, Chennai in
April 2010.
3) Dr. G. Moorthy, Assistant Professor won the Best Poster Award for ‘Long term results of
Gastrocystoplasty’ at the World Congress of Pediatric Surgeons, New Delhi in October 2010.
4) Dr. Pratheeba, Medical officer secured the Best Paper Award for ‘Intestinal pseudo-obstruction’
presented the CCPS Meet – Chennai City Pediatric Surgeons, Chennai in September 2010.
5) “Predicting grade of prostate cancer using image analysis soft ware” - by Dr. Sandhya
Sundaram won the best paper Award at the International conference “Trends in Information
Sciences and Computing” 2010, Chennai.
6) S. Gopinath, Assistant Professor won the Best paper award for the paper entitled “A Factorial
study on the Evaluation of Formulation Variables on the Dissolution Rate of Etoricoxib tablets”
in the Indian Congress of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences – 2010 and IPA Convention -
2010 at SRU in March-2010.
7) G. Kannan, Assistant Professor won the First prize for poster presentation at the Indo-American
Pharmaceutical Regulatory symposium at SRU from 20th to 21st November 2010.
8) Dr. Venkatesh Babu Department of Conservative Dentistry was awarded the Best paper award
in the national conference of Indian Society of Dental Research.
9) Ms. Savitha V.H, Dr. Prakash Boominathan and Ms Svetha V were awarded ‘Dr B.M.Abrol
award for the best p
10) aper in speech’ at the 41st Indian Speech & Hearing Association Conference at Pune.
11) Dr.Hannah Rachel Vasanthi won the Best Paper Award for her paper “The Glucose Paradox of
Cerebral Stroke: Nimodipine can be Neuroprotective?” presented in the Annual conference of
the Indian Society of Atherosclerosis Research -16th and 17th December 2006 at Madras
University, Chennai.
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