Scientific Presentations

  1. Delivered a lecture on Rapid diagnosis of corneal ulcers at National Symposium on Eye Banking (North zone) held at New Delhi, from August 25-26, 1990.
  2. Delivered a lecture and demonstrations on Acanthamoeba keratitis during “Workshop on Ophthalmic Microbiology / Pathology, , Dr. RPC for Ophth. Sciences., AIIMS, New Delhi, September, 17-19, 1991
  3. Delivered a lecture and demonstrations on “Parasites in AIDS- Cryptosporidium” in ICMR sponsored Workshop at Department of Parasitology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, April 27-29, 1992
  4. Delivered a lecture on Seroepidemiology of Toxoplasmosis in sheep and goats of Rajasthan state and their butchers. Centenary celebrations of IVRI, Mukteshwar campus, December 2-3, 1993.
  5. Delivered a lecture on AIDS epidemiology: country scenario. An update on Clinical Immunology, Srinagar, August 24-5, 1999.
  6. Delivered a lecture on Recent advances in the diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis during the National Conference on Veterinary Public Health. GB Pant University, Pantnagar, UP. November 28-29, 2002.
  7. Chaired a Scientific Session during the Global Meet on Parasitic Diseases, New Delhi, November, 1996
  8. Chaired a Scientific Session during the International Symposium on Leishmaniasis. New Delhi. February 23-24, 2002.
  9. Chaired a Scientific Session during the LABCON-2, New Delhi. February 21-22, 2002.
  10. Delivered a lecture on Medical Laboratory Technology: Key to Modern Medicine. PGIMER, Chandigarh. April 26, 2002
  11. Delivered a lecture on “Opportunistic Intestinal Pathogens” during the Sir Dorabji Tata memorial Symposium on Diarrhoeal diseases. Bangalore, March 22-23, 2002.
  12. Delivered a lecture on Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in Indian AIDS patients during the 8th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Pacific Rim at Dhaka, Bangladesh, from December 11-12, 2003
  13. Delivered a lecture on Leishmaniasis during the Fifth Sir Dorabji Tata Symposium on “Leishmaniasis” to be held at J.N. Tata Auditorium, Bangalore from March 10-11, 2004.
  14. Chaired a Scientific Session during the National Convention of SIIP at CJIL, Agra, February 13-15, 2004
  15. Delivered a lecture on Diagnosis and management of Lymphatic Filariasis. During the NVBDCP, Government of India, Symposium, Pune, February 26-27, 2004.
  16. Delivered a lecture on “Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in AIDS” during the National Conference on Management of HIV/AIDS in Resource Restricted Setting from February 20-22, 2004
  17. Delivered a lecture on “Molecular Methods for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis” at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi. October 15, 2004.
  18. Delivered a lecture on “Recent advances in the diagnosis of Leishmaniasis” during the Kala-azar capacity building CME. Patna, October 27-28, 2004
  19. Delivered a lecture on “Intrauterine infections”. Perinatology CME of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics, April, 24, 2005, NOIDA, UP
  20. Delivered a lecture on “Diagnosis of non-tubercular mycobacteria” during the 4th National workshop on “Simple Diagnostic Methods in Infectious Diseases” JIPMER, Pondicherry November 22-26, 2005
  21. Chaired a scientific session during the 4th Biennial Conference of The Indian Association of Leprologists at JALMA, Agra, from November 12-14, 2005.
  22. Delivered a lecture on “Toxoplasmosis in meat animals.” During the Summer School Programme of Punjab. Agriculture University, Ludhiana, October 10, 2005.
  23. Delivered a lecture on Food Borne Toxoplasmosis. 17th National Congress of Parasitology. Held at Dibrugarh, Assam, October 24-26, 2005.
  24. Delivered a lecture on “To Harness and Streamline the Regulatory Issues for Import and Export of Biological Materials” . National Meeting on Global Clinical Trials in India-Prospects & Challenges” FICCI, New Delhi. from November 14-16, 2005
  25. Chaired a Scientific Session during the International Conference on HIV/AIDS and TB: Past, Present and Future, January 13-15, 2006.
  26. Delivered a lecture on “TORCH investigations and their interpretation” during the National conference of ISPAT. February 18, 2006, New Delhi.
  27. Co-Chaired a Scientific Session during the International Conference on Opportunistic Pathogens in AIDS, March 27-29, 2006., New Delhi
  28. Delivered a lecture on “Quality Control of Diagnostic Medicine for Parasitic Diseases” at National Institute of Biologicals, NOIDA, November 3, 2006.
  29. Co-Chaired a Scientific Session during the XXX National Conference of Medical Microbiologists” at Nagpur, October 26- 27, 2006
  30. Chaired a Scientific Session during the 18th National Congress of Parasitology” at Kolkata, November 22-24, 2006
  31. Chaired a Scientific Session during the “International Workshop on Defining the Future – HIV/AIDS- Next 25 years” December 18-20, 2006.
  32. Delivered a lecture on “Molecular Diagnostic Tools for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases.” HNB Garhwal University, Sri Nagar. January 15, 2007.
  33. Chaired and Delivered a lecture on “Methods HIV Testing” during the First Hands-on Workshop on Training course on HIV/AIDS for Medical Officers and Laboratory technicians, National Institute of Biologicals, NOIDA, January 16, 2007.
  34. Chaired a Scientific Session during the “33rd Indian Immunology Society Conference” New Delhi, January 27-30, 2007.
  35. Chaired and Delivered a lecture on “Methods HIV Testing” during the Second Hands-on Workshop on Training course on HIV/AIDS for Medical Officers and Laboratory technicians, National Institute of Biologicals, NOIDA, February 12, 2007.
  36. Chaired and Delivered a lecture on “Methods HIV Testing” during the Third Hands-on Workshop on Training course on HIV/AIDS for Medical Officers and Laboratory technicians, National Institute of Biologicals, NOIDA, February 19, 2007.
  37. Deliverd a guest lecture on “Quality Assurance” during the Microbiology Update 2007 at MAMC, Delhi on March 9, 2007
  38. Deliverd a invited lecture on Leishmaniasis and its diagnosis at Span Diagnostics Pvt Ltd., Surat (Gujarat) on April 28, 2007
  39. Delivered a guest lecture on “Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis” during the National Seminar & Workshop on Johne’s Disease at Bareilly (UP) from August 7-9, 2007
  40. Chaired a Scientific Session and headed the jury to adjudge the best oral presentation during the National Conference of Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology (Tropacon), Chennai, October 6-7, 2007.
  41. Delivered guest lecture on indigenous developments in the Leishmania diagnostics. National Conference of Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology (Tropacon), Chennai, October 6-7, 2007.
  42. Delivered Dr. BP Pandey Oration on “Recent Advances in Leishmania diagnostics” during 19th National Conference of Indian Society for Parasitology (NCP) at Vishakhapatnam from October 26-28, 2007.
  43. Delivered a lecture during 31st National Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM) at Mangalore from November 16-18, 2007
  44. Delivered guest lecture on “Non-tubercular Mycobacteria in immunocompromised patients” during the Indian Association of Leprologists (IAL) conference at Kanpur University on 21st November, 2007.
  45. Delivered a guest lecture “Recent trends in Diagnosis and Prevention of AIDS” during the World AIDS Day celebrations at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, UP on 1st December, 2007.
  46. Delivered guest lecture in UP-MICROCON on “Emerging Viral Infections” at Lucknow on 16th February 2008.
  47. Inaugurated Fourth Hands-on Workshop and Training course on HIV/AIDS for Medical Officers and Laboratory technicians, and Delivered a inaugural lecture on “HIV and Overview” at the National Institute of Biologicals, NOIDA, May 7, 2008.
PUBLICATION FOR GENERAL PUBLIC/ MASS COMMUNICATION
  1. Written several articles on Toxoplasmosis and its zoonotic importance in Daily news papers and magazines both in Hindi and English including PTI and Univarta.
  2. An Interview of International importance on “Risks of hospital acquired infections AIDS & HBV infection” published in New Scientists (England) August 3, 1991, p10.
  3. Written several educational articles for Hindi and English news papers on Kala-azar for general public.
  4. Presently scientist on panel for “Univarta”: articles of public interest published on Toxoplasmosis, Genetic & Congenital infectious disease and on PCR based diagnoses.
  5. Publications of mass awareness about water contamination in Delhi, through PTI, Times of India, HT, Tribune, etc.
  6. Published several pamphlets and handbooks/handouts in Hindi language for public awareness various diseases and their diagnosis.
  7. Participated in a “Documentary film on Universal Precautions” directed by Dr. Ashok Rattan and Produced by AIIMS, New Delhi, 1993.
  8. Participated as subject expert in a “Documentary film on AIDS: its social impact” produced by Mass Communication Centre, Jamia Millia University, Delhi, 1992.
  9. Mass awareness articles in Nav Bharat Times, Hindustan, Tribune (Hindi) and TOI, Hindustan (English) on Toxoplasmosis, 1998, 1999, 2000.

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Former Director & CEO
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal-462020
Madhya Pradesh
Email: sarman.singh@gmail.com