Scientist Profile Name Dr. Dina Nair Designation Scientist ‘C’ (Medical) Date of Birth 11.06.1973 Date of Joining 15.11.2007 Date of joining present post 06.01.2014 Discipline Medicine , Public health Address (off.) including Contact Number* Department of Clinical Research National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, No.1, Mayor Sathiyamoorthy Road , 600 031 28369500, 28369505

Address (resi.) including Contact Number* Flat no. T-7, No.21, Panduranga Apartments, Natesan Nagar 5th main road, , Chennai 600092 Mob : 9962044855 Residence : 24792823 Email address* [email protected], [email protected] * Mandatory Educational Qualifications (begin with descending order ) DEGREE INSTITUTION AND LOCATION YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY MHscPH Annamalai University 2011 Public Health

PGDPh Annamalai University 2009 Public Health

MBBS Government Medical College, 1996 Medicine,Surgery Thiruvananthpuram , Kerala

1. Research Experience : 7 years 2. Membership/Fellowship of Professional Societies/Associations : Nil 3. Workshops/Conferences/Symposiums: 20 4. Awards : Nil 5. Miscellaneous: Nil 6. Publications :

• Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: experience at the Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai, . Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2011; 15: 1323–1325. A.Thomas, P.Joseph, D.Nair, D.V.B.Rao, V.V.B.Rekha, N.Selvakumar, K.Jaggarajamma, R. Balambal. • Expansion of Pathogen-Specific Mono- and Multifunctional Th1 and Th17 Cells in Multi- Focal Tuberculous Lymphadenitis .PLoS One 2013: e57123 Nathella Pavan Kumar, Rathinam Sridhar, Vaithilingam V. Banurekha, Dina Nair, Mohideen S. Jawahar, Thomas B. Nutman, Subash Babu. • Ubiquitous creation of electronic medical record and clinical data management using tablet PC. Proceedings of International Conference on Global Innovations in Tecnology and Sciences .Gloriya Mathews, Neema Babu, Rintumol Joseph, Shafeena Basheer, Shyju George, Jayakrishna V, Dina Nair. Also presented in the ICGITS conference 4-6th April 2013. • Chapter on “Prevention of Tuberculosis in the presence of Co-infection and Comorbid conditions” in the e-book entitled Clinical Insights: Tuberculosis Prevention an e- Book Series from Future Science Group Expert Reviews. Dina Nair, Soumya Swaminathan. • Profile and response to anti-tuberculosis treatment among elderly tuberculosis patients treated under the TB control programme in South India- PLoS One. Banu Rekha VV, Dina Nair, Chandrasekaran V, Balambal R, Gomathy Sekar, Basilea Watson, Niruparani Charles, Muniyandi M, Aleyamma Thomas and Soumya Swaminathan