Genetics and Fetal Medicine Committee Activity- October 22- Jan 23

The Genetics and Fetal Medicine Committee, FOGSI organized its first CME on Fetal Growth Restriction on Tuesday, 13th December 2022. This was an online webinar under the able guidance of President FOGSI, Dr Hrishikesh Pai, Dr Madhuri Patel, Secretary General FOGSI and Dr Geetendra Sharma, Vice president In charge FOGSI. Dr H D Pai was the chief Guest with Dr Madhuri Patel, Dr Geetendra Sharma, Dr Sanjay Gupte and Dr PK Shah as the Guests of Honour.

The first session had interesting talks on various aspects of Fetal Growth Restriction. The first talk was on Growth in the concepts of Growth Restriction by Dr Chinmayee Ratha. This was followed by talks on Predicting FGR by Dr Seetha Ramamurthy Pal, Genetics in FGR by Dr Vandana Chhadda and Critical decisions in FGR by Dr Aparna Sharma. The session was chaired by stalwarts in the field of Fetal Medicine, Prof S Suresh, Prof Kushagradhi Ghosh and Dr Laxmi Shrikhande, Chair ICOG.

The next session was a very interactive panel on case scenarios and this was moderated by Dr Vandana Bansal with an expert group of panelists, Dr Chandrakant Garg, Dr Malathy Prasad, Dr Shruti Jain, Dr Sangeeta Yadav, Dr Debasmita Mondal and Dr Sachin Nichite. The programe was coordinated by Dr Megha Kamlapurkar and Clirnet was the Academic partner. There was a total of over 300 registrations. An interactive and interesting webinar with many important and practical take home messages to update our knowledge and help us in our clinical practice.

Regards

Dr Seetha Ramamurthy Pal
Consultant Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Apollo Multi-speciality Hospitals, Kolkata
Chair, Genetics and Fetal Medicine committee, FOGSI

Karyashala workshop in Kolkata

‘EVOLVE’ Karyashala workshop was held in Kolkata on the 29th January 2023. This was a physical workshop conducted by the Genetics and Fetal Medicine Committee with the International Academic Exchange Committee with Dr Pratibha Singh as the chair and Medical Disorders in Pregnancy Committee  with Dr Manoj Chellani as the chair. This was held in association with the Bengal Obstetrics and Gynecological society. It was a 4 hour programme and topics like PPH, Diabetes Mellitus, Abnormal Uterine bleeding and Preterm Labour were discussed. It was a very successful programme with over 80 delegates participating in the event. The programme was ably supported by our Academic partner Alembic