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GERIATRIC SOCIETY OF INDIA® GSI NEWS January Vol. IX No. 1 Dr. N. N. Asokan Dr. Om Prakash Sharma President General Secretary & Hony. Editor Dear Colleagues, This year we had two major activities. One was to bring out another book on Geriatrics and the other was to do an International Conference. Ever since we have separated from API, our Annual Conference has become the main activity of the society. The society had also decided to convert Annual Conference into INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE every alternate years. GERIATRIC C ARE, the textbook on Geriatrics & Gerontology has certain unique features like this multidiscipline speciality. Geriatric Care; apart from covering various clinical sides of all the relevant diseases covering various organs; and organ systems, has covered basics of Gerontology, Nursing Care, Social Aspects, Administrative and Organizational aspects, Legal and Constitutional aspects and things of practical importance like Lab values in Indian elderly and their Dr. Om Prakash Sharma Nutritional aspects. This is now a knowledge readily available for application for the Indian Geriatric caregivers, Students of Geriatrics, Practitioners of Modern medicine as well as Planners in the government and NGOs. The International Conference this year was a great success, registering 22 NRI’s from UK, USA, Hong Kong, Australia & New Zealand. The response from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, MCI, HelpAge and various medical institutions was overwhelming. Let us keep the momentum and come up to the expectations of our senior citizens and provide them good health and cover their medical needs. Long live GSI. Attention All Members - inform your Email ID and Tel/Mobile Nos. Fellows - 2004 Honorary Fellows - 2004 Dr. S. K. Arora Dr. S. K. Sama Dr. Kandhah Parasivam Dr. Raj Niranjan Dr. M. Amusna Singh Dr. K. K. Pareekh Dr. M. Veeraraghavan Dr. Vaneet Khanna Dr. S. K. Bakshi Dr. Shiela Mehra Dr. Shankar Sankaran Dr. Jagdish Sharma Dr. J. C. Mohan Dr. Urvashi Jha Dr. Geetha Mylvaganam Dr. Amar Lal Purohit Dr. Veena Bhatt Dr. Purusottam Lal Dr. Yogini Ratnasabapathy Dr. Devraj Gupta Dr. Ashok Rajgopal Dr. Alka Gujral Dr. S. K. Prashar Dr. Devinder Singh Congratulations Annual National Conference of Geriatric Society of India September 23rd - 25th 2005, Pondicherry for details, visit us at : http://www.geriatricindia.com Details - Page 11 2 Under Postal Certificate Notice for election of office bearers for the year 2005-06 Dear Member, Nominations are invited on the prescribed format given below for following vacancies, which are to be Patron filled with effect from April 2005. Dr. Vinod Kumar 1 President Elect : One 2 Vice Presidents :Four - One from Headquarters (Delhi), One from specialists Category, One from President Family Physicians, One from Non-medical Dr. N. N. Asokan 3 Committee Members : Ten-Three from specialists, One from Family Physicians, One from non- medical Executive President 4 Five co-opted members. Dr. V. K. Arora Terms of office for each of the post is one year. Separate nominations should be made for each post. Nomination should be proposed and seconded by a valid member (who has no dues of the membership President Elect fee) and duly signed by the candidate so proposed, signifying his/her consent for the post. The nomination Dr. G. S. Reddy form duly completed in all respects should reach the undersigned by registered post latest by 28th February 2005. For the sake of convenience I am putting down the last dates as below:- Vice Presidents 1 The last date for receiving valid nominations 28th February 2005. (in case there are more than Dr. G. S. Sainani one nominations for one post then within 10 days of the filing nominations, contestants will be Dr. D. N. Moharana informed by Registered Post/Telegram and in case any one wishes to withdraw one may withdraw Dr. N. K. Kohli by the last date of wiithdrawal. Mr. Jittender Kapoor 2 The last date for withdrawals 15th March 2005. 3. In case election is necessitated the ballot papers will be posted by the office by 20th March General Secretary 2005. Dr. O. P. Sharma 4. The last date of receipt of ballot papers by the office will be 31st March 2005. Treasurer If any member does not receive the ballot papers by 25th March 2005 one may inform the Secretary Dr. M. P. Arora immediately so that ballot papers are sent by Speed Post immediately in case of election. The nomination papers may be sent to the Society office in sealed cover and should be marked as Joint Secretary “Nomination Papers - GSI Annual Election for the year 2005-06”. Dr. Ajay Agarwal Dated. : 13-02-2005 Yours sincerely Committee Members Dr. B. B. Gupta Dr. A. K. Singh Address: K-49, Green Park Main Dr. O. P. Sharma New Delhi - 11 0 01 6 General Secretary Dr. H. K. Chopra Note-: Dr. N. S. Neki 1 A member will have to serve for 2 years as Vice-President before being eligible to contest for Dr. Ashima Nehra President Elect. 2 A member is eligible for nomination for any one of the Executive posts only besides being eligible Co-opted as Committee members. Dr. Moheet Sharma 3 A member is eligible for nomination to any executive office after completing 2 years as member Col V. D. Charan of GSI. Dr. S. K. Bakshi 4 A life member has voting right from the day he/she becomes a member. An ordinary member will have to be a member for a period of one year to become eligible for voting. Dr. Garima Handa 5. The term of Secretary and Treasurer continues upto March 2006. Dr. Kiran Kukreja NOMINATION FORM Zonal Co-ordinators NAME OF THE CANDIDATE & Mem. No. _______________________________________________________ Dr. S. B. Nagori (E) Dr. Harbir Kaur Rao (C) ADDRESS OF THE CANDIDATE _________________________________________________________ Dr. M. Sabir (N) _________________________________________________________ Dr. Yogini Meisheri (W) EMAIL - ID & TELEPHONE No. _________________________________________________________ Dr. V. V. Haridas (S) POST _________________________________________________________ PROPOSER’S i)________________________________________________________ (Name, Signature & Mem. No.) _________________________________________________________ ii) _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ I agree to serve the Society, In my capacity for which I am elected with full integrity and honesty. SIGNATURE OF CANDIDATE _________________________________________________________ Secretariat Life Membership K-49, Green Park, New Delhi - 110 016, India. Email : [email protected], [email protected] Rs. 1500.00 visit us at : www.geriatricindia.com 3 Esteemed members, We at the head quarters are very happy and proud that the International Conference on Geriatrics and Gerontology held on 27th and 28th November 2004 at Hotel Ashoka, New Delhi went on smoothly. To be more precise the number of delegates from abroad and various parts of India were much more than we had expected and the interactive session held after each deliberation were worth mentioning as ‘useful’. The rest of the details may be found in the report by General Secretary. But what I gathered and presumed after meeting the delegates in person after the sessions and during Lunch and Banquet is that each member was expressing need for more and more sessions like this to be held in different parts of the country and that they should not be held in metros only. Dr. N. N. Asokan This is actually true and sincere wish but to organize such a conference in a State level or Peripheral branch level is not easy. Although it might feel easier for the local office bearers of the branch concerned. We at the head quarters shall do the selections of the topics and if necessary arrange the speakers. But the funding and running about shall be the responsibility of local office bearers. One could easily get the funds from the Pharma Companies who are now coming forward to help the CME update programme without any restrictions. Prof. O. P. Sharma from Delhi, Dr. H. K. Chopra from Delhi, Dr.G.S Reddy from Pondichery and Myself from Kerala could help you in any branch or those from Geriatric clubs of Doctors, which are very common now among doctors. But still I want to repeat and remind that the aim and motto of this year of Geriatric Society of India is to have more membership. Society is not for the Doctors of Geriatric group but it is for all the doctors, except the pediatricians. So the prime aim of this message is to appeal to increase the membership in every state or town amongst those who are interested to practice of Geriatric Medicine not leaving out the Subspecialties like Geriatric cardiology, diabetology, Orthopedics, Neurology, Psychiatry etc. Together we can make the elderly happy by improving their quality of life. Regards, Dr.N.N.Asokan GERIATRIC SOCIETY OF INDIA® K-49, Green Park, New Delhi - 110 016 Email : [email protected], Visit us at : http://www.geriatricindia.com MEMBERSHIP FORM I wish to join Geriatric Society of India as Life / Ordinary member and promise to abide by its rules and regulations Full Name (block letters) ............................................................................................................. 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