COVID Combat Zone Insights
Public Health Lecture Series, Dengue Project National Centre for Biological Sciences
'Public Health Lecture Series, Dengue Project'
National Centre for Biological Sciences
invites you to a webinar focusing on COVID-19 titled,
‘COVID Combat Zone Insights’
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Date: Saturday, June 13, 2020
Time: 4:00pm, Zoom Digital Platform
The Live Stream Will Appear on This Channel:
Moderator: Dr George D'Souza, Dean, St. John's Medical College and a pulmonary physician.
Speakers: Dr Lloyd Vincent, MD (Int. Med), DM(Nephro), MSc (Med Info.), MHSc (Health Admin), CHE, Africa Healthcare Network, CMO, Co-founder & Director. And, Professor L.S. Shashidhara, Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune (Currently, on Lien at Ashoka University). JC Bose National Research Fellow. President, International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS).
Host: Professor Sudhir Krishna, NCBS, TIFR.
Co-host- Neha Panwar, Project Assistant and Communication Coordinator, Dengue Project, NCBS, TIFR.
Aim:
The aim is to explore COVID-19 clinical management at the front lines. The lead speaker, Dr Lloyd Vincent, one of the pioneers of dialysis in Karnataka and the country, has also designed dialysis machines and so on. He has set up an African health network and has been in Tanzania this entire time treating COVID cases and managing renal challenges.
He will be followed by Dr George D'Souza. Finally, Professor L.S. Shashidhara will follow Dr D'Souza and set the stage for a short dialogue with the participants. Collectively, we will get a sense of real-time clinical and epidemiological challenges and can also think about institutional capacity building and so on.