Wednesday 8 February 2012

IRIA 2012 Updates


The 65th annual conference of Indian radiological and imaging association, held at the sprawling 70 acre HITEX Hyderabad international convention center from 28th to 31st January 2012 superceded all expectations as the organizers, under the able guidance of prof Kakarla Subba Rao, left no stone unturned to provide excellent infrastructure and ensured high caliber organization of scientific sessions, which included 4 speciality workshops, 6 big fight sessions, 6 orations, 5 film reading sessions, 2 symposia on radiology journalism and trauma-critical care radiology, 6 early morning Meet the professor sessions, an exhaustive spread at the scientific exhibition which included 150 conventional posters and more than 400 electronic posters, case of the day sessions, IRIA meets ESR and AOSR, apart from the 300 guest lectures and 280 proffered paper presentations plus 30 guest lectures on recent advances or future of radiology.........

IRIA 2012 saw conspicuous participation from Teleradiology solutions, be it the proffered paper section which saw presentations by 4 radiologists on the topics -
1. Utility of mobile device in the detection of intracranial hemorrhage - presented by Dr. Sridhar PG
2. Utility of mobile device and web-based teleradiology in the evaluation of chest CT for pulmonary thromboembolism - by Dr. Tobias
3. Comparison of tubal ring of pregnancy with the corpus luteum on transvaginal sonography by Dr. Chetana
4. MDCT evaluation of coronary arteries in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot by Dr. Jayadeepa.

Or the Poster presentations -
where Dr. Srikanth MS presented conventional poster on MRI evaluation of spectrum of ankle ligament injuries
and Dr. Tobias' electronic poster on Imaging of the peritoneal spaces

Making the splash, was the much-awaited Big fight face-off between our Dr.Arjun Kalyanpur and Dr. Gouthan Reddy. The debate was a treat to behold and especially heartening to see the radiology fraternity stand in full support for Dr.Kalyanpur upholding Cardiac CT than MRI in the Indian scenario for imaging the congenital heart diseases.
The specialty lecture delivered by Dr. Kalyanpur on the CT evaluation of pediatric cardiac CT also received wide acceptance.

The scientific exhibits section saw Teleradtech Tech stealing the limelight with Radspa inciting much interest amongst prospective clients and the idea of IPad - mobile Teleradiology not only grabbed many eyeballs but was also subject of curious interest for many radiologists who liked the idea of reporting-on-the-move.

The brainstorming sessions were followed by well-organized, thoroughly entertaining and scrumptious banquet/gala dinners which were also a great networking platform for all radiologists to catch up on old friends and make new ones at what one would go on to remember as an excellent conduct of a national conference, in a scale and size - that can be best summed up as  being true Hyderabadi Nawabi style.
                                                                                                                       ----by Dr Jayadeepa







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