A Saga of INDIAN EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION 40 Years of Journey Editor Dr HV Srinivas Consultant Neurologist Sagar Hospital & Agadi Hospital Bangalore INDIAN EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION A Saga of INDIAN EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION 40 Years of Journey A book of historical interest published on completion of 40 years of Indian Epilepsy Association and released during ECON 2013 at Hyderabad in February 2013 Copyright © 2013 by the Indian Epilepsy Association All rights reserved Cover design by D Drive Studio Bangalore Printed by: Aditi Enterprises #18/5, 22nd Cross, Bhuvaneshwari Nagar, Magadi Road, Bangalore - 23 Email: [email protected] CONTENTS Page Preface ..........................................................................................v Foreword ......................................................................................ix Founder Office Bearers .................................................................xi Governing Council (2011–2013) ................................................xii Presidents ..................................................................................xiv History of Indian Epilepsy Association ........................................ xv Presidents of Indian Epilepsy Association Dr Baldev Singh ..................................................................1 Dr TK Ghosh .......................................................................6 Dr KS Mani .......................................................................17 Dr B Ramamurthi ..............................................................22 Dr Anupam Dasgupta ........................................................29 Dr Devika Nag ..................................................................32 Dr BS Singhal ....................................................................37 Dr KK Sinha ......................................................................48 Dr PK Sethi .......................................................................53 Dr Pravina U Shah ............................................................58 Dr HV Srinivas ..................................................................66 Chapters of Indian Epilepsy Association Hyderabad ........................................................................77 Kakinada ...........................................................................82 Nellore ..............................................................................84 Tirupati .............................................................................90 Visakhapatnam ...............................................................102 Guwahati ........................................................................109 Patna ...............................................................................112 Delhi ...............................................................................115 iii Ahmedabad .....................................................................117 Anand .............................................................................119 Ranchi ............................................................................123 Bangalore .......................................................................127 Belgaum ..........................................................................138 Mangalore .......................................................................143 Shimoga ..........................................................................145 Kochi ...............................................................................150 Thiruvananthapuram ......................................................156 Indore .............................................................................163 Bombay ...........................................................................170 Nagpur ............................................................................183 Pune ...............................................................................191 Ludhiana .........................................................................198 Jaipur ..............................................................................200 Jodhpur ..........................................................................204 Chennai ..........................................................................206 Trichy ..............................................................................209 Lucknow .........................................................................213 Kolkata ............................................................................218 Other Information Milestones .......................................................................224 Office Bearers of IEA – Central Office .............................225 Office Bearers of the Chapters for 2012 ..........................226 Formation of Chapters ....................................................228 Membership of Chapters .................................................230 Annual Conferences ........................................................232 Recipients of Orations and Awards .................................233 IBE / ILAE Awards ..........................................................234 Diploma in Epilepsy Care (DEC) .....................................235 Memorandum of Association ..........................................239 Acknowledgements .........................................................266 iv Preface - Dr HV Srinivas he Indian Epilepsy Association (IEA) was registered in T 1970 and the first meeting was held in January 1971. IEA celebrated 40 years of completion with a satellite meeting of International Bureau for Epilepsy in Kochi in 2011. It was proposed to bring out a book featuring the origin and growth of the movement of epilepsy through Indian Epilepsy Association. The book is a compilation of biographies of Presidents from the time of inception and gives an insight into the then prevailing situations for creating awareness in the society. Some of them had already written their biographies for the book “A Saga of Indian Neurology – Reflections of Former Presidents”. A few of them have taken pains to rewrite their biography with an emphasis on epilepsy movement. It was an arduous task to collect information from member chapters. A few were very prompt in responding to the request while others required repeated reminders. In the end it was quite satisfactory to note the good response from all of them. One can see the various innovative methods taken up for public education and awareness programmes by several chapters. It requires persistance, pursuance and zeal to carry on social education to create awareness which can be achieved by the active participation of the non-medical fraternity of the chapters. Some chapters have maintained a log book of the activities and were v able to give extensive write-ups, while others had to write the activities of their chapters in a general format. Some chapters have expressed the difficulties they faced in implementing the activities while others have suggested ways and means to improve the activities further. I had requested for 3-4 photographs from each chapter depicting the various activities. Subsequently I wrote to all the chapters to send more photographs which can be collaged. Those who had maintained photo album were able to do so. The outcome of all this exercise is the updating of list of present office bearers and the current membership. As I was associated with Indian Epilepsy Association for a number of years as an Office Bearer I managed to trace the History of IEA from various sources and pieced it together. The book also includes a great deal of important information spanning over 40 long years; a list of office bearers over the years, venue of the conferences and recipients of orations and awards. The IEA is proud to have members who received international recognition which is also listed. I thank Dr Arjundas for readily accepting to write a foreword to this book. My sincere thanks to all the Presidents who were willing to share their experiences and write about themselves. I thank all contributors for having spared the time and interest to write about the activities of the chapters. This book misses the biography of Dr VS Saxena, who for reasons best known to him could not contribute his write up, which would have given a ring-side view of the developments of IEA. vi I thank IAN for having permitted us to reproduce some of the articles from the book. In the GC Meeting at Hyderabad in August 2012 it was decided to request financial grant for publication of this book from IEA - 18th IEC Trust. The request was turned down by the Trust. With persistence and help funds were raised from various sources in particular the pharmaceutical companies, Sanofi, Torrent Pharma and well wishers. Our sincere thanks to all the contributors. I thank Ms Deepa and Mr Dinesh Kumar for the cover design of the book. I thank Mrs Meena Chandramohan for copy editing the book, Mrs. Theresa Pinto for secretarial assistance and Mr Mohan Kumar of Aditi Enterprises for bringing out this book in an excellent format. vii Foreword - Dr Arjun Das pilepsy, in earlier days, was treated by family physicians with E available medicines. There were families with history of epilepsy in several generations and were not cluttered by the modern semiologies, changing classification and modern drugs, nor were they confounded with modern technology of imaging. The treatment was bromide mixture and later phenobarbitone and phenytoin.