Hannah T Balukrishna

Head & Neck #Oncology Team organised #Cancer Survivorship Program earlier this month @ CMC Vellore Ranipet Campus. #Healtheducation sessions and clinical assessments conducted for #patients; medical lectures and workshops for #students and faculty. Program also hosted pre-beta launch of 'Bandhu Care' #app developed in collaboration with #linguistic team from @iiit_hyderabad; app is designed to help patients fulfill tasks and receive support with queries in multiple languages including Marathi, Tamil, English, Hindi, Assamese.

CMC Vellore & Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune (C-DAC Pune) have entered into an umbrella #MoU to foster joint #research projects, capacity-building, collaborative publications, and fundraising for research activities. Work, through the partnership, is ongoing with @ICMRDELHI awarding a 3-yr research project, focusing on advancing #oralcancer studies. @cdacindia

**PRAGRAD: A New Approach to Treating Very Advanced Oral Cancer** latest from our group @cmcvelloreoff @CancerCareMASCC @oncoalert @ASCOPost @myESMO @LizzySmyth1 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Christian Medical College inaugurated PARAM Shavak Supercomputer at the Department of Radiation Oncology at its new campus in Ranipet on Wednesday to enhance computational capabilities for medical research. trib.al/oJO34AP

PRAGRAD, a new patient-driven treatment approach for very advanced oral cavity #cancers (which cannot be surgically removed) shows significant improvement in patient outcomes: prospective study by CMC #research team. Instead of a one-size-fits-all plan, #patients are given the choice of #palliative care or aggressive chemoradiation, promoting shared decision-making and #PatientAutonomy. It was found that when decision making was shared, more patients were willing to try aggressive chemoradiation; half the number who responded to initial #chemotherapy and continued aggressive treatment, survived over 30 months - 5 times longer than those choosing palliation (6 months). Nearly half survived beyond 2 years - a remarkable outcome for this advanced stage. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijro… @ASTRO_org #RedJournal #CancerCare #PatientChoice

D3 and almost at the end and the Audience is engaged and questions are coming through in the interaction time. Symposium on #HealthData & #AI @OffCMCVellore #CAHO

150 patients' data analyzed. Radiomics with clinical data, were used to build predictive models using Machine Learning. Clinical + T2W-MR model achieved the best prediction accuracy (AUC = 0.72). Further validation needed with a larger cohort.

Can MRI and CT Radiomics Predict Treatment Outcome in Rectal Cancer? Pre-treatment MRI with clinical features shows potential. Personalization strategies (e.g. aggressive Tx for high-risk, organ preservation for low-risk patients need accurate predictors. rdcu.be/dKrFt

#Congratulations to Dr. Sukesh Chandran Nair, Sr. Professor at CMC Vellore's Department of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology for prestigious award by World Federation of Hemophilia @ #WFHCongress2024 @wfhemophilia #healthcare #PatientCare #doctor #Awards #hemophilia

#Congrats to Prof. Dr. Sukesh Nair, friend & colleague @OffCMCVellore who has been awarded the International Healthcare Volunteer Award 2024 by @wfhemophilia Transcontinental engagement in clin services, edu, training & research #MedTwitter #PathTwitter @HemoIndia #gratitude

#HIRINGNOW : Project Assistant indiabioscience.org/orgs/cmc/jobs/… via @indiabioscience @OffCMCVellore @HBalukrishna

Dr. OC’s lecture @OffCMCVellore Thank you, sir, for differentiating between curing & healing! We’re grateful not only for your great clinics and lectures, but also for reminders about the iniquities in medicine, and warnings against falling into the trap of peddling diseases.

It's time for our next hackathon - ReHackathon India ‘23!!! A week-long event in India is scheduled for early December. Interested? Then express your interest now or before Oct 20. forms.gle/3SyserdQDvzcEZ… Do you have questions? DM me. #neurorehack #rehackathon

Day2 of the HDSS worksh @OffCMCVellore . Today's sessions by Dr. Achyut Patel Dr. Suresh Sharma & Anchal Dubey from NRCES @cdacpune on Health Data Standards Great audience & highly interactive. Dr. Solomon, Princi offered felicitation #interoperability #healthdata #Standards

Dr. Devakumar from @OffCMCVellore presenting the story of #CMCPACS - Our own in-house #opensource #PACS at the #DICOM World Congress at Chennai More than a decade experience; multidepartment clinical image service dicom.world/conference-age… #dcm4che #Java #MedTwitter #PathTwitter

Day 1 of workshop on Health Data Standards and Security organised by Biomedical Informatics Unit. Discussion on #privacy & security - @RVellakkat, Partner & Senior Associate @foxmandalindia with Anisha Koshy & Deepika Srinivasa, public policy experts from @DSCI_Connect. #data

It was good to share our @cmc experience in Head and Neck Radiomics at #BNMSS2023.

@Megabagatelle @BNMSnews Thank you Dr Prakash.

@India_Alliance and @GKangInd Thanks for the opportunity

CMC #AI symposium Day 1 Uma Nambiar, Chair of @DigitalHealth91, speaking on 'Telemedicine, Interoperability and Challenges in #Digital Transformation', said that telemedicine solutions will be the first entry point for EHR #data in the #future; they should be seen as enablers.