CURRICULUM VITAE

USHA DUTTA, MD, DM

Date of birth: 1st March 1967

Qualifications : MBBS[All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( A.I.I.M.S), New Delhi, India]

: MD Internal Medicine(A.I.I.M.S, New Delhi, India)

: DM Gastroenterology (A.I.I.M.S, New Delhi, India)

: ClinicalFellow (Storr Liver Unit,Westmead Hospital,Sydney, Australia)

: Senior Research Fellow,PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

Current position: Associate Professor of Gastroenterology,

Postgraduate Institute of Medical EducationResearch (PGIMER),

Chandigarh 160012, India.

Contact Information:121-A, Sector 24-A, Chandigarh-160023, India.(R): 0091-172-2724053

Email:;Fax:91-172-2744401;Tel:91-172-2756610

ACADEMIC RECORD AND WORK EXPERIENCE

Course / Post / From / To / Performance
Associate Professor
PGIMER, India / 2004 / 2010 /
  • Best Poster award by ISG 2009.
  • Best poster award by AGS 2008
  • 4 Best Paper awards by ISG, 2006
  • Alkem Om Prakash Memorial Award, 2005

Assistant Professor
PGIMER, Chandigarh,India / 1999 / 2004 /
  • Young Clinician’s Award, APDW2001.
  • Young Clinicians AwardAPDW, 2000.

Senior Research Fellow
PGIMER, Chandigarh, India / 1998 / 1999 /
  • Madanagopalan award for the Best Plenary Paper

Fellowship in Hepatology
The Storr Liver Unit
West Mead, Sydney,
Australia / 1996 / 1997 /
  • Best Research Paper Award, 1997

DM Gastroenterology
AIIMS, India / 1994 / 1996 /
  • Young Clinician Award by WCOG, 1998

M.D. Medicine
AIIMS, New Delhi, India / 1990 / 1992 /
  • MD thesis selected for plenary session of Indian Gastroenterology conference

M.B.B.S
AIIMS, New Delhi, India / 1984 / 1989 /
  • New Zealand High Commissioner’s Prize for Best Undergraduate in Community Medicine

Higher Secondary
Certificate
DTEA, New Delhi, India / 1983 / 1984 /
  • Best Outgoing Student of the School
  • Award for Highest Marks in Chemistry

Secondary School Certificate
DTEA, New Delhi, India
India / 1972 / 1982 /
  • Awards for Highest marks in Mathematics

EXPERIENCE IN GASTROENTEROLOGY

CLINICAL SKILLS

  • Highly skilled in providing clinical care in in-patient, out-patient and intensive care setting.
  • Skilled in performing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures with high level of competence. Can perform various therapeutic endoscopic procedures including Variceal Ligation, Variceal injection, endoscopic dilatation with bougie and balloon, endoscopic treatment of ulcer bleeds, polypectomy, chromoendoscopy, stent placements, argon plasma photocoaguation and other common procedures. Performed over 10000 endoscopic procedures.
  • Skilled in performing esophageal/ anorectal manometry and pH-metry. Incharge of the manometry services in our gastroenterology unit at PGIMER and have performed over 1000 manometry procedures.
  • Skilled in perfoming and interpreting capsule endoscopy services of the unit
  • Trained in performing Endoscopic Ultrasound. Performed 34 procedures to date.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

In Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine

  • Faculty member in a leading tertiary care Gastroenterology Unit in India since 1999.
  • Involved in teaching & training of MD Medicine and DM Gastroenterology fellows.
  • This includes ward rounds, bedside case discussions, moderating seminars, journal clubs and clinical meetings, taking didactic classes and presenting grand rounds.
  • Faculty-in-charge of designing the Gastroenterology Teaching Program for 10 years.

RESEARCH

  • Completed 30 research projects,
  • Mentored 22 thesis.
  • Trained in Clinical epidemiology and research methods ( by INCLEN, NIH)
  • Conducted workshops as faculty on Research Methodology.
  • Served as a resource person for thesis students
  • Editorial Board member and Reviewer for various journals
  • Member of the PGI research group

RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED

LUMINAL

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  1. Prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in IBD and its role in disease severity, manifestations and treatment.
  2. Faecal inflammatory markers in ulcerative colitis: role in assessment of disease activity, severity and response to therapy.
  3. Pulmonary and haematological alterations in idiopathic ulcerative colitis.
  4. Role of superadded GI infections in the exacerbations in IBD.
  5. Effect of Curcumina longa supplementation in controlling disease activity in patients with ulcerative colitis: A double blind randomized controlled trial (ongoing).

Small bowel

  1. Role and interrelationship of gut stasis and vitamin D deficiency in obese individuals: A case control study.
  2. Jejunal biopsy culture is a simple and effective method in assessment of jejunal microflora.
  3. Intestinal permeability in celiac disease: prevalence and relationship to disease severity and mucosal histology
  4. Prevalence of deranged intestinal permeability in patients with alcoholic liver disease and effect of rifaximin: a double blind placebo controlled trial (ongoing)
  5. Celiac disease in adults: profile and presentation in a tertiary care referral centre.

GALLBLADDER

Cancer

  1. Risk factors for development of gallbladder cancer among patients with gallstones.
  2. p-53 mutations in GB cancer: its prevalence and relationship to risk factors.
  3. Role of CA-242 as a tumor marker in the diagnosis and prognosis of gallbladder

cancer.

  1. Effect of presence of gallstones on the age of presentation of gallbladder cancer.
  2. Gallbladder cancer: presentation, staging and outcome: a report from a tertiary care

centre.

Gallbladder Motility

  1. Prevalence and effect of Vitamin D deficiency on gallbladder motility in postpartum women.
  2. Comparison of high protein versus high fat meal on gallbladder ejection fraction: A randomized cross over trial.
  3. Prevalence and effect of iron deficiency and protein deficient diet on gallbladder function in postpartum women.
  4. Prevalence and effect of gallbladder stasis on gallbladder mucosal histology with reference to premalignant lesions in patients with gallstones.
  5. Prevalence and predictors of gallbladder function in patients with gallstones.
  6. Gallbladder dysfunction in obese: is it static, sluggish or both?

LIVER

  1. Effect of N-acetylcysteine on the course of antitubercular therapy induced hepatitis and on oxidative stress.
  2. Risk Factors for development of hepatocellular cancer among Australians with hepatitis C: a case-control study.
  3. Hepatocellular proliferation and development of hepatocellular carcinoma: a case-control study in chronic hepatitis C.
  4. A prospective study on the incidence of hepatitis B & C infections amongst patients with lymphoproliferativedisorders.
  5. Effects of hepatitis G virus coinfection on severity of hepatitis C: relationship to risk factors and response to interferon treatment.
  6. Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C in Australia.
  7. Role of ultrasound estimated liver volume as a prognostic marker in fulminant hepatic failure.

OTHERS

  1. Mucosal proliferation in acromegalics: relationship to growth hormone levels.
  2. Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus.
  3. Cisapride on gastric emptying in diabetics: randomized double-blind placebo control trial.
  4. Effect of stress and relaxation on esophageal motility pattern using manometry.
  5. Esophageal motility in patients with corrosive ingestion.
  6. Sequential Endoscopic Papillary Balloon Dilatation Following Limited Sphincterotomy for Common Bile Duct Stones.
  7. Endoscopic balloon dilation in caustic-induced chronic gastric outlet obstruction
  8. Comparative evaluation of nasoenteral feeding and jejunostomy feeding in acute corrosive injury: a retrospective analysis.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

  • Best Poster award by Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG), Kolkata 2009.
  • Best poster award by Australian Gastroenterology Society, Brisbane, 2008
  • ISG Win Medicare award for best poster in ISG, 2006.
  • Best Poster award, Motility section, ISG, 2006
  • Best Poster award, Colon section, ISG, 2006
  • Third prize for best oral paper, INASL, 2006
  • Alkem Om Prakash Memorial Award by Indian Society of Gastroenterology for Outstanding Life time contribution as a young gastroenterologist, 2005.
  • APDW Young Clinician’s Award by the Asia Pacific Association of Gastroenterology, Sydney, Australia 2001.
  • Young Clinicians Award by the Asia-Pacific Congress of Gastroenterology; Hong Kong 2000.
  • Prof Madanagopalan Award for Best Plenary Paper by ISG, Calcutta, 1999.
  • Young Clinicians Award by the World Congress of Gastroenterology Vienna, 1998.
  • Best Research Paper Award by Westmead hospital, Australia1997.
  • New Zealand High Commissioner’s Prize for Best Undergraduate student in Community Medicine 1989.
  • Certificate of Merit by the Indian Academy of Paediatrics in 1987 for meritorious performance in the Pediatric Quiz.
  • First Prize in Mathematics by the DTEA School in the Secondary School Certificate Examination, 1982.
  • Merit Certificate by CBSE for being amongst top 1% of successful candidates in Senior School Certificate Examination, 1984.
  • First Prize in Chemistry by the DTEA School in the Senior School Certificate Examination, 1984.
  • 27th Board Position in the Senior School Certificate Examination, 1984
  • BEST OUTGOING STUDENT joining medicine awarded by the DTEA School, 1984
  • Merit Certificate by the National Scholarship Scheme for high position among meritorious students in Secondary School Certificate Examination, 1982.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF INSTITUTIONS


PUBLICATIONS

  1. Dutta U, Udawat H, Noor MT, Sidhu GS, Kochhar R, Vaiphei K, Singh K.

Regression of Immunoproliferative Small Intestinal Disease After Eradication of

Helicobacter pylori. J Gastrointest Cancer. 2010 Mar 19. [Epub ahead of print]

  1. Masoodi I, Kochhar R, Dutta U, Vaishnavi C, Prasad KK, Vaiphei K, Kaur S,

Singh K. Fecal lactoferrin, myeloperoxidase and serum C-reactive are effective biomarkers in the assessment of disease activity and severity in patients with idiopathic ulcerative colitis. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009 Nov;24(11):1768-74.

  1. Gupta R, Reddy DN, Makharia GK, Sood A, Ramakrishna BS, Yachha SK, Thapa BR, Banerjee R, Anuradha S, Dutta U, Puri AS, Jain AK, Mulder CJ, Kumar A, Boindala S. Indian task force for celiac disease: current status. World J Gastroenterol. 2009 Dec 28;15(48):6028-33.
  1. Gupta K, Vasishta RK, Dutta U, Kochhar RK, Singh K. Embolization of

Cyanoacrylate glue in systemic circulation in a case of hepatocellular carcinoma: an autopsy report. Diagn Pathol. 2009 Dec 9;4:45.

  1. Dutta U. No rationale for use of combination of quinolones and anti-protozoal

agents for acute diarrhea in India. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2009

Jan-Feb;28(1):38.

  1. Kochhar R, Singhal M, Nagi B, Lal A, Dutta U, Singh K. Prevalence of type IIIanomalous pancreaticobiliary junction in a tertiary care hospital of North India.JOP. 2009 Jul 6;10(4):383-6.
  1. Kochhar R, Poornachandra KS, Puri P, Dutta U, Sinha SK, Sethy PK, Wig JD,Nagi B, Singh K. Comparative evaluation of nasoenteral feeding and jejunostomy feeding in acute corrosive injury: a retrospective analysis. Gastrointest Endosc.2009 Jun 30.
  1. Dutta U, Singh K. Pajamas with a hole: a holistic solution to an embarrassing problem. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2008;27(6):250.
  1. Kochhar R, Masoodi I, Dutta U, Singhal M, Miglani A, Singh P, Singh K. Celiac disease and Budd Chiari syndrome: report of a case with review of literature. EurJ Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009 Mar 31. [Epub ahead of print]
  1. Doley RP, Yadav TD, Wig JD, Kochhar R, Singh G, Bharathy KG, Kudari A, GuptaR, Gupta V, Poornachandra KS, Dutta U, Vaishnavi C. Enteral nutrition in severe acute pancreatitis. JOP. 2009;10(2):157-62.
  2. Kochhar R, Ahammed SK, Chakrabarti A, Ray P, Sinha SK, Dutta U, Wig JD, Singh K. Prevalence and outcome of fungal infection in patients with severe acutepancreatitis. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009.
  3. Dutta U, Kuchhangi Sureshchandra Poornachandra P. Gallbladder polyps: how topick up the sinister ones. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009;24(2):175-8.
  4. Kochhar R, Dutta U, Sethy PK, Singh G, Sinha SK, Nagi B, Wig JD, Singh K.Endoscopic balloon dilation in caustic-induced chronic gastric outlet obstruction. Gastrointest Endosc. 2009 Jan 9. [Epub ahead of print]
  5. Dutta U, Bhagat S, Kochhar R, Nagi B, Singh K.Gastrointestinal: rolled-up tongue; a sign of previous caustic injury.J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008 Dec;23(12):1944.
  6. Kochhar R, Dutta U, Shukla R, Nagi B, Singh K, Wig JD. Sequential Endoscopic Papillary Balloon Dilatation Following LimitedSphincterotomy for Common Bile Duct Stones.Dig Dis Sci. 2008 Nov 13. [Epub ahead of print]
  7. Kochhar R, Masoodi I, Singhal M, Dutta U, Nagi B, Wig JD, Singh K. Pancreatogastric fistula after severe acute pancreatitis: a case report.Gastrointest Endosc. 2008 Oct 14. [Epub ahead of print]
  8. Ghoshal UC, Abraham P, Bhatt C, Choudhuri G, Bhatia SJ, Shenoy KT, Banka NH,Bose K, Bohidar NP, Chakravartty K, Shekhar NC, Desai N, Dutta U, Das G, Dutta S,Dixit VK, Goswami BD, Jain RK, Jain S, Jayanthi V, Kochhar R, Kumar A, MakhariaG, Mukewar SV, Mohan Prasad VG, Mohanty A, Mohan AT, Sathyaprakash BS, Prabhakar B, Philip M, Veerraju EP, Ray G, Rai RR, Seth AK, Sachdeva A, Singh SP, Sood A, Thomas V, Tiwari S, Tandan M, Upadhyay R, Vij JC. Epidemiological and clinical profile of irritable bowel syndrome in India: reportof the Indian Society of Gastroenterology Task Force.Indian J Gastroenterol. 2008 Jan-Feb;27(1):22-8.
  9. Singla V, Galwa RP, Khandelwal N, Poornachandra KS, Dutta U, Kochhar R. Wandering spleen presenting as bleeding gastric varices.Am J Emerg Med. 2008 Jun;26(5):637.e1-4.
  10. Dutta U, Iyer VH, Rana SS, Behra A, Singh P, Kochhar R, Nagi B, Singh K.Infective endoshuntitis in a patient with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension:successful medical management. Dig Dis Sci. 2009 Jan;54(1):181-3. Epub 2008 Jun 5.
  11. Udawat H, Sharma A, Dutta U, Yadav TD, Vaiphei K, Singh S, Kochhar R.Infected appendiceal mucocele presenting as pyrexia of unknown origin.Endoscopy. 2008 Sep;40 Suppl 2:E113-4. Epub 2008 May 8.
  12. Rajagopala S, Dutta U, Chandra KS, Bhatia P, Varma N, Kochhar R.Visceral leishmaniasis associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis--case reportand systematic review.J Infect. 2008 May;56(5):381-8. Epub 2008 Apr 10. Review
  13. Dutta U, Poornachandra KS. Heparanase and gallbladder cancer: new insights into understanding tumor growthand invasion.J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008 Mar;23(3):343-4.
  14. Kochhar R, Mittal BR, Kumar S, Bhattacharya A, Sethy PK, Dutta U.Segmental and total oesophageal transit time in patients with corrosive-induced oesophageal stricture.Nucl Med Commun. 2007 Dec;28(12):920-3.
  15. Vaiphei K, Duseja A, Dutta U, Kochhar R. Pain, jaundice and lump in a middle-aged man.Indian J Gastroenterol. 2007 May-Jun;26(3):130-4.
  16. Vaiphei K, Kumari N, Sinha SK, Dutta U, Nagi B, Joshi K, Singh K. Roles of syndecan-1, bcl6 and p53 in diagnosis and prognostication of immunoproliferative small intestinal disease.World J Gastroenterol. 2006 Jun 14;12(22):3602-8.
  17. Vaiphei K, Dutta U, Kang M, Mishra B. Severe refractory ulcerative colitis in a young lady.Indian J Gastroenterol. 2006 Mar-Apr;25(2):82-7.
  18. Kochhar R, Saluja H, Singh RS, Dutta U, Sinha SK.Endoscopic clip application for postoperative residual esophageal duplication cyst. Endoscopy. 2006 Apr;38(4):424-5.
  19. Dutta U, Mittal S, Ratho RK, Das A. Acute liver failure and severe hemophagocytosis secondary to parvovirus B19 infection. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2005 May-Jun;24(3):118-9.
  20. Dutta U, Nagi B, Garg PK, Sinha SK, Singh K, Tandon RK . Patients with gallstones develop gallbladder cancer at an earlier age. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2005 Aug;14(4):381-5.
  21. Batra Y, Pal S, Dutta U, Desai P, Garg PK, Makharia G, Ahuja V, Pande GK, Sahni P, Chattopadhyay TK, Tandon RK. Gallbladder cancer in India: A dismal picture. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2005 Feb;20(2):309-14.
  22. Rana SS, Dutta U, Sinha SK, Kochhar R, Nagi B, Bhasin DK. Severe acute bleeding from portal colopathy controlled by somatostatin: a case report. Trop Gastroenterol. 2004 Jul-Sep;25(3):144-5.
  23. Raja K, Kochhar R, Sethy PK, Dutta U, Bali HK, Varma JS. An endoscopic study of upper-GI mucosal changes in patients with congestive heart failure. Gastrointest Endosc. 2004 Dec;60(6):887-93.
  24. Dutta U, Bapuraj R, Yadav TD, Lal A, Singh K. Mesenteric ischemia and portal hypertension caused by splenic arteriovenous fistula. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2004 Sep-Oct;23(5):184-5.
  25. Dutta U, Sinha SK, Singh P, Singh K, Aydinli B, Celebi F, Kantarci M, Ozturk G. Images of interest. Hepatobiliary and pancreatic: complications of hydatid disease. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2004 Nov;19(11):1321.
  26. Malhi NS, Dutta U, Sathyanarayana G, Singh K. Acute pancreatitis: presenting manifestation of varicella infection. Trop Gastroenterol. 2004 Apr-Jun;25(2):82-3.
  27. Dutta U, Kumar M, Sharma SC, Nagi B. Umbilical metastasis with squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2004 Jul-Aug;23(4):156-7.
  28. Dutta U, Rana SS, Lal A, Sinha SK, Khandelwal N, Singh K. Hemobilia as a presenting manifestation of polyarteritis nodosa. Indian J Gastroenterol 2004; 23 (2): 71-2.
  29. Sinha SK, Sethy PK, Kaman L, Vaiphei K, Nagi B, Dutta U, Singk K. Multiple spontaneous enterocutaneous fistula in malakoplakia. Indian J Gastroenterol 2003; 22 (6): 234-5.
  30. Sethy PK, Dutta U, Aggrawal AN, Das R, Gulati M, Sinha SK, Singh K. Pulmonary and hematological alterations in idiopathic ulcerative colitis. Indian J Gastroenterol 2003; 22 (5): 176-9.
  31. Mohanty SK, Vaiphei K, Dutta U, Singh K. Granulomatous cryptococcal lymphadenitis in immunocompetent individuals: report. Histopathology 2003;42 (1):96-7.
  32. Dutta U, Kumar A, Wig JD, Nagi B, Vaiphei K, Singh K. Pneumobilia: a clue to an unusual cause of diarrhea. Trop Gastroenterol 2002; 23 (3): 138-40.
  33. Chandra S, Dutta U, Das R, Vaiphei K, Nagi B, Singh K. Mesenteric venous thrombosis causing jejunal stricture secondary to hypercoaguable state and primary portal hypertension. Dig Dis Sci. 2002 Sep;47(9):2017-9.
  34. Bhutani V, Dutta U, Ray R, Singh K. Hemophagocytic syndrome as a presenting manifestation of visceral leishmaniasis. J Assoc Physicians India. 2002 ;50:838-9.
  35. Bhutani V, Dutta U, Nijawan R, Nagi B, Singh K. Endocrine cell tumor of the gallbladder. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2001 May-June;20(3) 109-10.
  36. Dutta U, Gupta NM, Nagi B, Singh K. Blister pack ingestion resulting in esophago-pleural fistula. Indian Journal Gastroenterol. 2001 Mar-Apr; 20(2): 79-80.
  37. Dutta U. Treatment of Hepatocellular carcinoma (Editorial). J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2000 Aug; 15(8): 822-4.
  38. Dutta U, Bhutani V, Nagi B, Singh K. Reversible portal hypertension due to tuberculosis. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2000 Jul-Sep;19(3):136-7.
  39. Ramanathan RMPL, Aggrawal AN, Dutta U, Ray P, Singh K. Pleural involvement by Salmonella Senftenburg: a report of two cases. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 2000; 42(1) (Jan-Mar): 31-33.
  40. Dutta U, Garg PK, Kumar R, Tandon RK. Typhoid carriers among patients with gallstones are at increased risk for carcinoma of the gallbladder. Am J Gastroenterol. 2000 Mar; 95(3):784-7.
  41. Dutta U, Garg PK, Agarwal R, Dutta Gupta S, Prasad GA, Kaul U, Tandon RK. Blocking of the hepatic vein outflow by neointima covering a Wallstent across a membranous stenosis of the inferior vena cava. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 1999 Nov-Dec; 22(6):521-3.
  42. Dutta U, Padhy AK, Ahuja V, Sharma MP. Double blind controlled trial on the effect of cisapride on gastric emptying in diabetics. Tropical Gastroenterology 1999; 20: 116-9.
  43. Dutta U, Byth K, Kench J, Khan MH, Coverdale SA, Weltman M, Lin R, Liddle C, Farrell GC. Risk Factors for development of hepatocellular cancer among Australians with hepatitis C: a case-control study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine,1999: 29: 300-307.
  44. Dutta U, Kench J, Byth K, Khan MH, Lin R, Liddle C, Farrell GC. Hepatocellular proliferation and development of hepatocellular carcinoma: a case-control study in chronic hepatitis C. Human Pathology, 1998 Nov; 29(11):1279-84.
  45. Dutta U, Raina V, Garg PK, Gurbaxani S, Joshi YK, Bhargava M, Tandon RK. A prospective study on the incidence of hepatitis B & C infections amongst patients with lymphoproliferativedisorders. Indian J Med Res. 1998 Feb; 107:78-82.
  46. Lin R, Dutta U, Kaba S, Coverdale SA, Liddle C, Farrell GC. Effects of hepatitis G virus coinfection on severity of hepatitis C: relationship to risk factors and response to interferon treatment. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1998 Aug;13(8):773-80.
  47. Kaba S, Dutta U, Byth K, Crewe EB, Khan MH, Coverdale SA, Lin R, Liddle C, Farrell GC. Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C in Australia. J Gastroenterol Hepatol, 1998 Sep; 13 (9): 914-20.
  48. Pokharna RK, Garg PK, Gupta SD, Dutta U, Tandon RK. Primary epithelioid haemangioendothelioma of the liver: case report and review of the literature.
    J Clin Pathol. 1997 Dec;50(12):1029-31. Review.
  49. Garg PK, Venkatachalam U, Tandon RK. Cholesterol bile duct stones with no stones in the gallbladder. J Clin Gastroenterol 1995; 20(4): 296-9.
  50. Kharbanda OP, Varshney P, Dutta U. Accidental swallowing of gold cast crown during orthodontic tooth seperation. J Clinic Pediatr Dent 1995; 19(4): 289-92.
  51. Saxena SP, Venkatachalam U, Tandon RK. Epidemiology of gallbladder cancer: Present status. Journal of Associations of Physicians of India 1995; Vol 43 (3), 204-6.
  52. Misra A, Kumar S, Venkatachalam U, et al. Cerebellar ataxia due to hyponatremia. New Zealand Medical Journal 1992,230-1.
  53. Jain P, Saxena S, Venkatachalam U, et al. Vancomycin induced red man syndrome. NMJI,Vol 3,No. 6,Nov/Dec,1990,307.

PRESENTED ABSTRACTS

Over 150 abstracts in various National and International Conferences

PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. Nutritional deficiency in postpartum women is associated with gallbladder dysfunction. Presented at AGW 2008, Brisbane.
  2. Multiple gallstones is associated with increased risk for GB dysfunction. APDW, 2009
  3. Hepatocellular cancer amongst patients with Hepatitis C: Who is at risk and is there any role of screening? Presented in the “First Australian Conference on Hepatitis C” in March 1997 in Sydney, Australia.
  4. Molecular epidemiology of Hepatitis C in Australia. Presented to the Westmead Association meeting, Sydney in 1997.
  5. Molecular epidemiology of Hepatitis C in Australia. Poster presentation in Brisbane at AGW in 1997.
  6. Chronic Salmonella typhi carrier state and cholelithiasis: cofactors in the pathogenesis of carcinoma of the gallbladder. Presented at the World Congress of Gastroenterology, 1998 at Vienna.
  7. Cisapride improves symptoms and Gastric Emptying in Diabetics: a double blind randomized control trial. Presented at the World Congress of Gastroenterology, 1998held at Vienna.
  8. The influence of risk factors on the age at presentation of patients with gallbladder cancer. Presented at the APDW2001, Sydney.
  9. Effects of H pylori infection on gastric acid and bicarbonate secretion. Presented at the DDW 2001
  10. Epidemiology of cancer gallbladder in India. Presented at the APDW,2000 held at Hong Kong.

Organizational Activities