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    desctext.innerText = 'Hemant currently works as Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas USA, as Director of Biostatistical Core, HIV/AIDS Reseach Center, Veterans Affairs, San Antonio, Texas, USA, as Fellow of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network Trust, Philadelphia, USA and as President of LMRF. He did his MBBS and MD (Preventive and Social Medicine) from Government Medical College, Nagpur and was trained as a Health Social Scientist for 1 year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He has a passion for medical research and serves on the reviewer panel of several journals. Recipient of the Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award for HIV/AIDS, he also has a keen interest in software development and has contributed to the development of OpenEpi forum in addition to developing ~12 stand-alone epidemiologically useful software packages. He has to his credit ~80 full length publications in peer-reviewed high-impact journals and ~10 abstracts published in international journals or presented at international conferences. The LMRF is his brainchild which he named after his late mother. ';
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function archana() {
    desctext.innerText = 'Life for Archana is giving attention to the spiritual aspects, to bring responsibility, a sense of belonging, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity. This has been realized by her being a medical professional and a keen medical researcher particularly in child health. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduation in Pediatrics at Government Medical College, Nagpur, with several awards and subsequently completed Masters in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and an INCLEN fellowship in Clinical Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Training in various aspects of pediatric clinical care and research and continues through national and international workshops. As the Professor and Head Department of Pediatrics and the Director Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, India, and, the Vice President of LMRF, teaching students and conduct of medical research funded by international funding agencies such as WHO, INCLEN, Wellcome trust, UK and AUSAID in different areas of child health such as acute respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, nutrition and environment have been possible with the hope that the emerging publications will impact positively on health. Additionally working with medical students, voluntary community work for orphans and consultations at charity hospitals are a manifestation of her sense of belonging to the humanity.';
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    desctext.innerText = 'Amit completed his MBBS from Government Medical College , Nagpur, India and came to the US in 2002 and earned his masters in public health at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. He is Internal Medicine Board certified and completed his Internal Medicine residency from Stroger Hospital of Cook County (formerly known as Cook County Hospital), at Chicago, IL. During his residency, he was awarded with the clinical skills and scholarship award both as an Intern and resident. He was also rewarded with the Outstanding Junior Investigator Award’ by American Federation of Medical Research (AFMR) in 2005. He is currently doing Cardiology fellowship at Stroger hospital and also affiliated with RUSH university hospital, Chicago, IL and holds the responsibility as Chief Cardiology Fellow. Some of his current research involves Racial determinants of premature coronary artery disease and predictors of early mortality in young, inner-city patients undergoing coronary angiography, Long-term outcomes of single vs. multivessel stenting in a public health system patient population, with uniform bare metal stent selection, adjunctive glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition and long-term clopidogrel therapy, MICU Triage Study. He is also working as a sub-investigator in Tilarginine Acetate Injection in a Randomized International Study in Unstable AMI Patients Cardiogenic Shock (TRIUMPH). Arginox Pharmaceuticals.';
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function manju() {
    desctext.innerText = 'Manju works as Research Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA and as Treasurer of LMRF. She is a brilliant young scientist with ~35 full publications in highly rated peer-reviewed journals and has already acted as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed Journals of international repute. Her paper on risk of type 2 diabetes has been quoted in the national guidelines for obesity in the US. Her primary interest is thalassemia and in a short period of 4 years she already has 8 high-impact publications on thalassemia. She is the Treasurer of LMRF.';
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function tushar() {
    desctext.innerText = 'Tushar is a joint secretary of LMRF. A graduate of  Government Medical College, Nagpur, India,  he has been a member of the LMRF since 2000 and has been intimately involved in various LMRF activities. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, USA with joint appointments in the departments of Psychiatric Medicine and Internal Medicine Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.  He also serves as the medical director of three structured outpatient psychiatry programs affiliated to Vidant Medical Center. He is a co-author on several acclaimed, high impact publications and has received several awards for his research. His research interests include cardiovascular comorbidities of sleep apnea, genetics of sleep and psychiatric illnesses, translational medicine, and Neuroscience.';
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function manik() {
    desctext.innerText = 'Manik completed her MBBS from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha, India. She came to the US in 2003, worked as a research volunteer at Dept of Molecular biology, at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and also at HIV/ AIDS research lab, University of Texas Health Science Center, at San Antonio, TX. She also served as a research assistant in a randomized trial of erythropoietin and quality of life in elderly anemics conducted in Chicago, at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL and Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL. She is currently doing Internal Medicine residency at Stroger Hospital of Cook County at Chicago, IL and also working as a clinical research assistant in Hematology- Oncology department at Stroger hospital. She is working on TAILORx trial, a randomized control clinical trial. The purpose of this trial is to determine the cancer recurrence score in surgically treated breast cancer patients based on their hormone receptor positivity and select those patients who would benefit from subsequent chemotherapy along with hormonal therapy. Finally, she is also working on the effect of clinical predictors as well as socioeconomic conditions on quality of life in cancer patents in Community Hospital.';
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    desctext.innerText = 'Yogesh is a neurology resident at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, USA. He is trained in internal medicine and clinical investigations. He has also conducted basic science research in neuroscience and immunology. Yogesh served on the LMRF as Treasurer for the first 6 years. He plans to use his training in basic and clinical sciences to  improve disease prevention and patient care. His areas of interest include molecular epidemiology, epidemiology of neurological diseases and public health.'; 
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    desctext.innerText = 'Dr. Mrs. Meherbano Mustafa Kamal currently works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology , Government Medical Collage, Nagpur. She is keenly interested in  Cytopathology and has completed a training Fellowship in this subject from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. Teaching postgraduates and promoting research in this subject, particularly, how to do more diagnostic work with less cellular material are her passions.  Her interest is grounded in research and application of Visual Screening approaches for downstaging of cancer cervix. Her current endeavors are directed towards setting up a Cervical Cancer School at  Nagpur with complete facilities for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of this cancer,  along with training courses for nurses and doctors. She believes that passion, when combined with hard work and perseverance, is always rewarding. She likes singing, doing needle work and yoga.'; 
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    desctext.innerText = 'Ambarish (MD, Medicine) is currently a Second Year Masters Student in Public Health at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He completed his MD in Medicine from Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College & Hospital (LTMGH), Mumbai, India and his Bachelors in Medicine and Bachelors in Surgery from Government Medical College, Nagpur, India. He has an excellent academic record and is a National Merit Scholar. Before starting his Masters programme, he served as the Senior Medical Officer in charge of Anti Retroviral therapy programme for the National AIDS Control Organization, Mumbai, India; Resident Medical Officer at LTMG Hospital, India; and Research Assistant at the Clinical Epidemiology Unit (INCLEN), Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, India. He is primarily interested in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research. He has published articles in national journals of India and presented papers at international conferences. His thesis Nutritional status of patients with HIV/AIDS and its correlation with morbidity and mortality has been accepted for presentation at National conference of Association of Physicians of India. For his exemplary work and research as a Resident Physician he was adjudged the Best Resident Medical Officer at LTMG Hospital, Mumbai, India in 2005.';    
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function shrik() {
    desctext.innerText = 'Dr. Anuradha Shrikhande is the Professor and Head of the Department of Pathology at the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College (IGGMC), Nagpur. She is the President of the Sickle Cell Association, Nagpur (SCAN) and spearheads a big hub of activities contributing to the prevention of Sickle Cell Disease in this region. She did her MBBS from IGGMC and MD (Pathology) from the Post-Gradualte Institute, Chandigarh with a Bronze Medal. She has a keen interest in Hematology, has organized several National and International Workshops, has many monograms in hematology to her credit.  Her comprehensive health care model for SCD is acclaimed worldwide and she has been invited as faculty for developing and implementing the SCD model in other developing countries.';
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function neetuj() {
    desctext.innerText = 'Neetu did her MBBS from Government Medical College, Nagpur and is pursuing post graduation in Internal Medicine. She is interested in doing research work in the field of infectious diseases.';
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function neetub() {
    desctext.innerText = 'Neetu is working as a Statistician at Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur. She is responsible for the overall statistical support for one or more clinical projects under Clinical Epidemiology Unit. She actively participates in the planning and reporting of clinical trials and takes the responsibility for the statistical analysis and interpretation of data, and presentation of the results, development and execution of study level STATA programs to list and summarize clinical trial data. She has a strong ability of developing new statistical methodologies and active participation in protocol development.';
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function smita() {
    desctext.innerText = 'A Microbiologist with interest in quality assured clinical research, Smita is Working as Research Associate for various clinical research projects especially tuberculosis at Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur since 9 years. Besides data collection and data management of the projects, assisting in new research protocol development, literature search, analysis, manuscript writing, office administration, financial coordination are all her forte.';
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function shivesh() {
    desctext.innerText = 'Shivesh Prakash did his MBBS from Government Medical College, Nagpur and MD (Pulmonary Medicine) from GSVM Medical College, Kanpur. He currently works as Registrar in Intensive Care at the Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. He has an immense interest in clinical research, particularly in the challenging areas like tuberculosis, ARDS and COPD. Also he has conducted some work on inhaled drug delivery of antibiotic which he intends to foray into further. He humbly claims that he owes his interest into research to teachers in his undergraduate days like Dr. Hemant Kulkarni whose workshops and courses initiated him, besides Dr. Sushant Meshram with whom he did a study called PRAYAS – the first practical application of what he learned from LMRF, and Dr. Rajshree S Khot, who encouraged him to apply for junior research scholarship on MI study in the final year of MBBS. He aims to strive for academic excellence, to search for truth and contribute to the current knowledge of science. He is of a firm belief that association with LMRF shall help him achieve his long term goals.';
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    desctext.innerText = 'Ujjwal P Ramtekkar is an alumnus of Government Medical College, Nagpur. After  his graduation in 2005 Ujjwal worked with Clinical Epidemiology Unit as Research Associate. Ujjwal graduated with a degree in Psychiatric Epidemiology and was also awarded Honors for his thesis that recommended changes in current criteria for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) for upcomig DSM-V. He was also among the awardees to attend the conference of American Psychopathological Association (APPA) at New York in March 2007. Ujjwal is currently a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at prestigious Washington university in St.Louis that is known as a home of DSM and a pioneer in biological Psychiatry. Ujjwal is affiliated with LMRF since 2002 and he has attended workshops in Biostatistics, Evidence based medicine and several other activities under the auspices of the organization. He served as national student representative of IPPNW (Nobel prize 1985) and was a part of international board of student members of this organization comprising of health professionals all over the world. Ujjwal is also interested in dramatics, debates and  has professionally acted and directed Marathi plays as a student. His previous research was in the area of Sickle cell disease, Pulmonary functions in different populations and Sampling methods in ADHD. His career interests are Academic Child psychiatry and epidemiologic research in childhood psychiatric disorders. He is interested in research in basic psychopathology and use of behavioral modification in psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.';
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    desctext.innerText = 'Savita completed her training in Ayurvedic Medicine (BAMS) in 2005-2006 from Nagpur University. She has worked as Study Physician in the  Phase IV Clinical Trial To Assess Reactogenicity of DPT Vaccine  Booster Dose, Maharashtra University of Health Science, Nashik, with Dr. Leena Dhande at Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur.  Currently she works as Research Officer in IndiaCLEN Severe Pneumonia Oral Therapy ( ISPOT ), at the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur. Besides she is also interested in protocol development, data management,  patient care and financial co-ordination.  Savita feels a high degree of satisfaction to be associated with LMRF.';
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    desctext.innerText = 'A student of 1989 batch of Government Medical College , Nagpur; Leena  completed MBBS in Nov 1994. All through she was a bright student and received honors in physiology, microbiology, otorhinolaryngology and pediatrics. She stood first among girls in Nagpur University in Surgery in MBBS and was awarded following Gold medals in MBBS. She was also awarded the following Gold Medals: Shri Dhanraj Benilal Jaiswal memory gold medal for standing first in Paediatrics; Shri Sadiqbhai Ahsan Husain Vali memory gold medal for standing first in Paediatrics; and Late Dr. Miss Mandakini Sane memory gold medal for standing first among girls in Surgery. She was also the winner of 7th Indian Academy of Paediatrics Quiz , Divisional round. She was awarded MD Pediatrics in Nov 1997 My thesis topic was- “Therapeutic use of Zinc and Copper in Acute childhood diarrhea and economic impact of the diarrhoal episode on patient’s family and Ministry of Health”. Leena has been involved in research proposal writing since April 2000. She was the Principal Investigator of the following research project carried out from Oct 2003 to Nov 2004: Effect of consuming food cooked in iron utensils on iron status in children with Iron Deficiency Anemia.  Chitnavis Memorial Medical Research Trust, Nagpur , has funded this project. This project is completed. She coordinated the following research project A Pilot Study Of Microbial Patterns Of Infections And Correlation With  CD4+ Cell Count In HIV Positive Vs HIV Negative Children of Age 18 months-12 years in a Tertiary Health Care Setting. which  was conducted between January 2005 and 2006. She was the Principal site Investigator in the following research project which was a multicentric study by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik conducted between Dec 06 to Jan 08- Phase IV clinical trial to study reactogenicity of booster dose of  DPT vaccine.  She is the Co-investigator in the IndiaCLEN Study of Pneumonia Oral Therapy which is a multicentric study and is ongoing from October 2008.';
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    desctext.innerText = 'Subhash did his M.B.B.S., M.D. (Community Medicine)  from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram, Wardha.  He did his graduation in the year 1986 and Post graduation in the year 1989.  He had been working as a Medical Teacher with various rural Medical colleges in Maharashtra in India.  At present he is working as Associate Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at Government Medical College, Nagpur.  He is also working with the Global Network as a Country Coordinator in the project Global Network EmONC Trial, Community Mobilization/Home Base Life Saving Skills Components.  He is very much interested in Community based projects involving topics like malnutrition (overweight/obesity, PEM and other micronutrient deficiencies) in urban slum, rural and tribal children, maternal morbidities and STI including issues related to HIV.';
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    desctext.innerText = 'Amaresh is a cardio-thoracic and vascular surgeon. He completed his graduation and post graduation from Govt Medical College, Nagpur and completed advanced training in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery from SCTIMST , Trivandrum, India, an institute of national recognition and home of the indigenous prosthetic heart valve (the Chitra  valve) of India. He has won the best paper award at MASICON, Pune in 2000. He has been the winner of several surgical quizzes at various levels. His current interests include coronary artery disease in the young age group in South East Asians, anticoagulation for cardiac conditions, mitral valve anatomy. He is keen to leverage information technology in health care especially for reaching out to the masses in rural and underdeveloped areas. His personal interests include reading, crosswords and quizzing. He is an active and keen rotarian (Rotary Club of Jubilee Hills, Dist 3150).';
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    desctext.innerText = 'Uday is an undergraduate and post-graduate alumnus of Govt. Medical College, Nagpur. He specializes in in Preventive and social Medicine (MD). Presently he is working as Associate Profesor of Preventive and Social medicine in Govt, Medical College, Nagpur. Apart from GMC Nagpur he worked as Lecturer and Associate profesor in IGGMC, Nagpur and SBHGMC, Dhule. While workiing in these colleges he was involved in various administrative activities of these institutions like MCI, MET, Library, purchase, Hostel warden, MHTCET etc.  He was also involved in evaluation study conducted by INCLEN on the National Programme - Family Health awarness campaign, He has also participated in the state-level evaluation study on Sector Investment programme. His areas of interest are MCH, epidemiology and research methodology.';
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