The College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) and Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow jointly organized a Continuing Medical Education (CME) on “COVID-19” in collaboration with American Society for Microbiologists (ASM) and Indian Virological Society (IVS). Distinguished international speakers like Dr. Suresh V. Kuchipudi, from Penn State University, USA; Dr. COULON Pierre-Grégoire from Curie Institute, Paris; Dr. Swayam Prakash from the University of California, USA, and Dr. Alyson A. Kelvin from University of Saskatchewan, Canada delivered their key note lectures. Eminent speakers like Dr. Priya Abraham, Director ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune; Dr. Uday C Ghoshal from SGPGIMS, Lucknow; Dr. Radha Kant Ratho from PGIMER, Chandigarh and Dr. D. Himanshu Reddy from King George's Medical University, Lucknow also highlighted effects of COVID-19 vaccination, emerging mutants and the issues with diagnosis of emerging SARS CoV-2 variants.
Dr. Yashpal Singh Malik, Dean, College of Animal Biotechnology, and the Organizing Secretary of the CME, in his address elaborated on adoption of One-Health approaches to tackle and develop preparedness for emerging infectious diseases inflicting the public health and also talked on the measures for prevention and control of SARS- COV-2. Dr. Ujjala Ghoshal, Organizing Secretary from Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow also briefed a microbiologist’s perspective about the issues with diagnosis of emerging SARS COV-2 variants.
There was an overwhelming response from participants all around the world. A total of 1060 participants joined the CME. Out of them 905 participants logged in through web streaming and 156 joined through Zoom online platform. Dr. Inderjeet Singh, Vice-Chancellor of the University, congratulated the organizing team for organizing the CME successfully and emphasized on such collaborative approaches.
