Top honours for Dr. Sanjib Mohanty in recognition of his services in malaria research

Dr Sanjib Mohanty, Ex-Director & HOD of Medicine and Critical Care unit was awarded the Sadananda Pattnaik Award for work in Malaria by the Indian Association of Malaria & Communicable Diseases & Indian Association of Epidemiologists at their joint annual cionference at Goa on 10th October 2014. This award was presented to him by Dr VK Katoch, DG-ICMR-cum-Secretary to the department of medical research, Government of India. He was previously awarded with Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation award in Austria in 2008. He has been working in the field of malaria for last 28 years. His area of work has been Pathogenesis of Cerebral Malaria, Development of new Antimalarial Drugs and Optimum Fluid Therapy in Severe Malaria patients. He has been member of the expert group on National Drug Policy on Malaria, Government of india. Also he has been WHO faculty to train doctors in management of Complicated Malaria. He has scientific publications in International and National like LANCET, JID, CID, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Transactions of Royal Society, IJMR etc. with high impact factor. He has written two chaptes in Regional Guidelines on the Clinical Management of Severe Falciparum Malaria in Large and Small Hospitals. Currently he is working on the mechanism of Cerebral Malaria by conducting MRI in such patients in collaboration with New York University & NIMR as a Consultant. Photograph courtesy Dr. Anil Dutt.