All India Rhinology society office bearers

ALL INDIA RHINOLOGY SOCIETY

OFFICE BEARERS

YEAR	PRESIDENT		SECRETARY
1986-93	Dr I.S.GUPTA		Dr V.P.SOOD
1993-96	Dr S.N.JAIN		Dr A.S.BAIS
1996-99	Dr P.K.KAKKAR		Dr A.S.BAIS
1999-2002	Dr V.P.SOOD(1999-2000) Dr P.S.SAHARIA(2000-01) Dr R.C.DEKA (2001-02)		Dr V.P.VENKATCHALAM
2002-2005	Dr AVADH CHAUHAN(2002-03) Dr V.P.VENKATCHALAM(2003-04) Dr A.K.AGGARWAL(2004-05)		Dr DEVINDER RAI
2005-2008	Dr A.MAHADEVAIAH(2005-06) Dr ASHOK VAID(2006-07) Dr ASHOK GUPTA(2007-08)		Dr ARVIND SONI
2008-2011	Dr P.S.N.MURTHY(2008-09) Dr ANOOP RAJ(2009-10) Dr L.S.OJHA(2010-11)		Dr ACHAL GULATI
2011-2014	Dr NISHIT SHAH(2011-12) Dr J.C.PASSEY(2012-13) Dr ARVIND SONI(2013-14)		Dr SANJAY SOOD
YEAR	TREASURER
1986-93	Dr P.S.SAHARIA(1986-87) Dr A.S.BAIS(1988-93)
1993-96	Dr P.S.SAHARIA
1996-99	Dr P.S.SAHARIA
1999-2002	Dr DEVINDER RAI
2002-2005	Dr JASVEER SINGH
2005-2008	Dr B.B.KHATRI
2008-2011	Dr SANJAY SOOD
2011-2014	Dr RAJESH KALRA

Rhinocon 2012

The All India Rhinology Society is organizing its 25th Silver Jubilee Conference from 16th to 18th November 2012 at the India Habitat Centre New Delhi.

As you know that we, the organizing committee and the office bears of the AIRS are going all out for the conference and so do expect a great participation from all our members.

For this I request you to register for it and attend.

This is the conference which is dedicated to our dear founder member, Dr. V.P.Sood, and all of us want an active participation of all the members.

The Surgical CME program is on the 16th November with live surgery transmission to the IHC from AIIMS. Prof. (Dr.) Suresh Sharma, Head of Department of ENT, AIIMS  has kindly consented to be the Chairman and Prof. (Dr) Rakesh Kumar , AIIMS its Chief Co-ordinator.

We will be having Prof. (Dr) Thomas Hummel, from Dresden, Germany to not only give a Guest Oration on Olfaction, but will also conduct an insructional course on the same topic which is a new frontier for us in the field of Rhinology.

Other Guest Orations will be delivered by our very dynamic, visionary and innovative surgeon, Prof. (Dr) Ashok Gupta from PGI Chandigarh, and Dr. Prathmesh Pai, from Tata Memorial Hospital who is spearheading endonasal removal of skull base tumors in the country.

May I request you to personally participate and inspire our colleagues and residents to do so too for the prestigious competitive events.

For the Consultants there is the Senior( Dr. I.S.Gupta) and Junior(Dr. Chatterjee) Consultant Paper Awards.

Please send our residents to this silver jubilee AIRS Conference for honing their knowledge. 

For them there is the  Prof.(Dr) Anoop Raj Poster Competition and for resident teams there is the Yagdarshan Rai Quiz Competition.

The free paper session is where a good scientific debate can ensue, please participate in that too

Please submit the abstracts of the award and free papers as well as for the poster and intimation of participation of the quiz competition by the 15th of October 2012, so that they can be incorporated in time in the souvenir.

Other details and the schedule of registration charges is available in the e-brouchre through the official website rhinocon2012.

Yours in affection and anticipation,

Dr. Devinder Rai

Organizing Secretary, Rhinocon2012

email address:-rhinocon2012@gmail.com   draient@hotmail.com 

 mob: +919999250654(personal) +919811009393(Ms. Indira) +919873906161 (Ms. Geeta)

   

Minutes of Governing body meeting held on 01-04-2012 at MAMC Guest House , Delhi

The meeting was attended by the following members :

1.      Dr J.C.Passey

2.      Dr Arvind Soni

3.      Dr Ashok Gupta

4.      Dr Achal Gulati

5.      Dr Sandeep Bansal

6.      Dr Rajesh Kalra

7.      Dr Sanjay Sood

8.      Dr Ajay Jain

In the absence of the President Dr Nishit Shah the meeting was called to order and presided by the President Elect Dr J C Passey. The following matters were discussed:

1.      The governing body passed a condolence resolution on the untimely death of the founder member, past president and Patron of AIRS Dr V.P.Sood. The governing body remembered his immense contribution in the development of the field of rhinology in India and decided that the silver jubilee conference in Delhi be dedicated in his memory.

2.      The update on organization of Silver Jubilee Conference Rhinocon at Delhi was discussed. As Dr Devinder Rai was not able to attend the meeting due to being preoccupied. The honorary secretary Dr Sanjay Sood informed that as per the telephonic conversation with Dr. Rai the venue and dates have yet to be decided and he will be finalizing it shortly. It was discussed that it is almost a year since the last conference was held in Gangtok and also that in the last governing body meeting held at Chandigarh on 04-09-2011, Dr Devinder Rai was requested to finalize the date and venue within a month but still no progress has been made. It was decided unanimously that Dr Rai should be requested to finalize the date and venue by 10-04-2012 and communicate it to the office. It was suggested and passed that Dr. Achal Gulati and Dr Arvind Soni to coordinate about the organization of Rhinocon.

3.      It was discussed and passed unanimously that the future conferences should be allotted to a small committee (minimum three members) from the city /State Rhinology branch which is bidding for it. It was further decided that the bid form to be circulated along with the GBM noticed and should be duly signed by three members.

4.      It is since last 5 years  that Clinical Rhinology is being published without any financial burden on AIRS but now the finances are required for it being indexed in PubMed and also for the circulation to the increased membership. It was suggested that that a Rupee one lakh be transferred for the journal.

5.      It was passed that membership be increased to Rs 3500/- as was passed in GBM and some amount to be transferred for the journal.

6.      It was discussed that if possible a Midcon should be organized and Dr Ashok Gupta was requested to see its viability.

7.      IRS dues to be paid at earliest.

8.      The same auditor to appointed for the audit of accounts.

9.      AIRS will honor past Presidents/secretaries/treasurer during  the silver jubilee Rhinocon.

10.   Vote of thanks was moved.