Teaching & Non Teaching

The department provides training for the residents registered for the following courses:

The Department is awaiting approval from the MCI for registering postgraduates for DM (Clinical Hematology) Thus for the term beginning in August 1999, the following registrations could be available.

• DM [Clinical Hematology] University of Bombay 2 year course
• 2 registrations could be available (open merit)

For details regarding application forms, selection criteria, please contact the post graduate section of the J.J. Hospital, Mumbai.

The following is the approximate distribution of the various postings during a two year residency DM [Clinical Hematology]

Working Schedule of Department

Indoor:

• Department has 28 beds on indoor basis
• On OPD basis daily 50 to 60 patients are seen in hematology day care.

Workload:

The average OPD attendance patients – visits per year are as follows:

• New patients – 12000 patients per year.

RESIDENTS:

1) Dr.Bharat Soni
2) Dr.Nitin Gundre
3) Dr.Swarup Pal
4) Dr.Soumen Paul
5) Dr. Pranav Mali
6) Sayajirao Sargar
7) Dr.Supreet Marahe
8) Dr.Gauri Datar
9) Dr.V.Nagesh R
10) Nilesh Purkar
11) Dr.Nilesh Purkar
12) Dr.Shikha Gupta

• Dr Farah S Jijina – Honorary Professor [farahjijina@hotmail.com]
• Dr S Chandrakala – Associate Professor and Head [drchandra_s@rediffmail.com]

Technical

• Two Senior Technicians
• Two Junior Technicians
• Two Laboratory Assistants

• OPD services
• Indoor services
• Bone marrow transplant (Autologous bone marrow transplant)
• Bone marrow aspiration biopsies.
• CBC, Coagulation profile and reporting
• Comprehensive Hemophilia care centre.
• Transfusion facility for Thalassemia patients.

Collaboration with IIH

ICMR has already recognized the 10 th floor hematology inpatient facilities of the Dr. J. C. Patel Hematology Department at the KEM Hospital as its clinical wing for the conduct of various research activities and drug trials. The following facilities are available to the Dr. J. C. Patel Department of Hematology from IIH [ICMR] for various collaborative projects

1. Evaluation of routine hematology workup with automated particle counter for the study of various hematological disorders.
2. Evaluation of Haemolytic Anemia, red cell enzyme studies and haemoglobinopathies including prenatal diagnosis.
3. Evaluation of all bleeding and thrombophillic disorders including carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis.
4. Evaluation of platelet function disorders, aggregometry and receptor studies.
5. Evaluation of transfusion transmitted disorders, diagnosis of Hepatitis B, C and HIV 1+2 [Elisa & Western Blot]
6. HLA tissue typing & cross-matching.
7. Molecular biology techniques applied to different hematological disorders like PCR, Reverse Dot Blot Hybridization, etc.
8. Haemopoietic stem cell isolation, invitro culture in semisolid and liquid media, long term one marrow culture.
9. Hybridoma technology.
10. Autoimmune disorder screening and detection of antiplatelet antibodies.
11. Flow cytometry and surface marker studies for various hematological malignancies as well cell cycle studies of leukemic cells
12. Red cell serology and grouping & crossmatching studies in the investigation of mismatched blood transfusion.
13. Evaluation of Autoimmune Hemolytic anemia, screening and diagnosis.
14. Intrauterine red cell transfusion in mothers with Rh sensitization.
15. Study of chromosomal abnormalities in haemopoietic disorders.
16. Evaluation of Iron overload with Serum Iron and ferritin studies.
17. Evaluation of Megaloblastosis with Serum B12/Folate and DU suppression studies.

The IIH has a well equipped library with a good number of books, periodicals and Journals. It also has Medline on CD ROM as well as an Internet connection [TCP/IP account] for online search. It also subscribes to the Current Contents which are available on floppies for ready reference on the IIH computer network. It has an excellent audio visual conference hall facilities that are being used for interdepartmental teaching programmes.

The department offers the M.Ch Course of three years duration in Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery under the aegis of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences Nashik. We have an intake of 4 students from this year. KEM Hospital is very often the first choice of PG students at the time of registration and this reflects the quantum and quality of training in the department. The residents go through a rigorous training programme aimed at attaining basic clinical and surgical skills. The residents rotate through other disciplines like Cardiology, Chest medicine, Vascular Interventional Radiology and Surgical Oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital. The department has an active teaching programme in the form of clinical presentations, journals club, diagnostic catheterization conferences and mortality meeting.The department also runs one year certificate course in the Extra Corporeal Perfusion Technology. The intake is of three students every year. The department also runs the lecture seriesand practical for BPMT course from MUHS. The department also given six months observation and training to the students recommended by the Bakkenn Institute.In addition, lectures are taken for Undergraduates, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy students, Nurses and others. The postgraduate students in Nursing from SNDT Women’s University spend a period of 3 months for practical training and research studies.