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NEWSLETTER
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Clinical
Neurophysiology Subsection
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| Minutes of the meeting
held on October 8, 2006 In view the tight schedule of the conference and the convenience of the members, the meeting was held during lunch hours in the dining area (2:00 pm – 2:30 pm). The following members attended the meeting: 1. Dr.(Prof) M.Gourie-Devi, New Delhi 2. Dr.(Prof) B.Vengamma, Tirupathi (AP) 3. Dr.(Prof) A.K.Meena, Hyderabad (AP) 4. Dr.A. Nalini, Bangalore (Karnataka) 5. Dr.B.K.Pankaj (Jharkhand) 6. Dr.Ravishankar Naik, Belgaum (Karnataka) 7. Dr.(Prof) K.Venkateswaralu, Vizag (AP) 8. Dr.(Prof) M.Veerendrakumar, Bangalore (Karnataka) 9. Dr. Meenakshi Sundaram, Madhurai (Tamila nadu) 10. Dr. S.K.Jha, Patna (Bihar) 11. Dr. R.Pazhani, Chennai (Tamila nadu) 12. Dr. Jaydip Roy Chaudhuri, Hyderabad (AP) 13. Dr. Nachiket Dixit (Madhya Pradesh) 14. Dr. A.O.Saroja, Belgaum (Karnataka) |
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| The Agenda items had been mailed to the members one week earlier. The same were discussed during the subsection meeting. | |
| 1. | Identifying office bearers
for the subsection Currently, there is only a national delegate for the subsection. It was felt that there is a need for at least one other office bearer for the subsection. Therefore, it was proposed to have a President for the subsection. It was felt that as Prof. M.Gourie-Devi had played an important role in getting the IFCN affiliation changed over to IAN and because of her interest and contribution to clinical neurophysiology in our country, Prof. M. Gourie-Devi be requested to be the President of the subsection. Prof. Gourie-Devi’s name was proposed by Dr.M.Veerendrakumar. It was accepted by all the members. As the National delegate takes care of all the correspondence and other secretarial work of the subsection, it was felt that there is no need for a separate post of Secretary for the subsection. |
| 2. | Organisation of International
Clinical Neurophysiology conference (6-8th April, 2007) . Dr.M.Veerendrakumar, NIMHANS, Bangalore, informed the members about the organization of the clinical neurophysiology conference“International Clinical Neurophysiology Update 2007” at NIMHANS, Bangalore. a. Three international experts have been invited to be the faculty at the conference. They are as follows: i) Prof. Jasper Daube, former Director of Clinical Neurophysiology , Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA ii) Prof. Jun Kimura, Iwo, USA iii) Prof. Paolo Maria Rossini, former editor of Clinical Neurophysiology, Italy All the three international experts have accepted the invitation to be the faculty at the above conference. b. To promote the conference, a flyer was distributed to the delegates attending the IAN conference at Bangalore. The flyer included E-mail address (icnu2007@nimhans.kar.nic.in) for correspondance. Website giving full details of the conference is being developed. c. To obtain financial assistance from IFCN, the application letter will be sent to the Asian-Oceanian Chapter president. Efforts will also be made to raise funds from other sources. d. For the organization of the conference, it was decided to have Dr.M.Veerendrakumar as the organizing secretary of the conference. e. Opening of bank account, It was decided to authorise Dr.M.Veerendrakumar, Prof. of Neurology at NIMHANS, Bangalore, and Dr.A.Nalini, Associate Prof. of Neurology at NIMHANS, Bangalore to open the bank account. |
| 3. | Organisation of Asian-Oceanian
Congress of Clinical Physiology (IFCN chapter meeting during
2012-2014) Members concurred that the clinical neurophysiology subsection of Indian Academy of Neurology should hold the chapter meeting. As Indoneisia also wishes to hold this meeting, we will have to contest this in the Asian-Oceanian Congress meeting scheduled to be held at Seoul, South Korea (April 15-18, 2009). The exact dates of this congress (2012-2014) will have to be finalised by then. |
| 4. | Payment of Annual Membership
Dues: The member societies of IFCN have to pay their dues ($ 4 per member) by 1st January of every year. In the last 3 years, due to the difficulties in collecting annual membership dues from members, dues are usually paid late. To reduce the expense on postal charges and to streamline the payment of dues, it was decided to collect dues for five years (Rs. 1000/-) from all the members. This will reduce inconvenience to members and will also help in timely payment of dues to IFCN. |
| 5. | Fellowship in Clinical
Neurophysiology at identified centres in the country for those
who have completed DM in neurology and desire pursuing further
interest in the field. a. It was decided to have further discussion on this issue |
| 6. | Guidelines for training
of technicians As many laboratories in the country are now providing clinical neurophysiolgoical services, it was felt that there is a need for framing guidelines so that optimal practices are followed. One option suggested was to use ASET guidelines. These guidelines may be modified to suit local requirements in our country. Laboratories that follow/fulfil these guidelines may be given accreditation. |
| 7. | Ways and means of improving
the membership of neurologists. At present, there are only 24 members in the subsection. For effective functioning of the subsection and to make its impact both nationally and internationally, there is a need to increase the number of members in the subsection. To increase the number of members in the subsection, Prof. M.Gourie-Devi put forth the idea of regional representatives. Each state/region may have member who would identify neurologists and others interested in clinical neurophysiology and encourage them to join the clinical nerophysiology subsection of IAN. He/She may also facilitate the interaction among clinical neurophysiology subsection members in the region. Provisionally, the following members have been identified for the following regions. a) Dr.Garima Shukla – North India b) Dr.S.K.Jha Bihar c) Dr.A.K.Meena – Andhra Pradesh Other members may come forward and function as regional representatives in their area. (During the subsection meeting 8 new members could be enrolled. Therefore, the current strength of the subsection is 32) |
| 8. | Including technicians/
technologists as members (or associate members) of the subsection Currently, there is a society of the technicians/ technologists under Neurological Society of India. This society is relatively inactive. It was felt that this matter should be discussed further to enable technicians/technologists to join clinical neurophysiology subsection. |
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