NewsVoir: Digest for May 19, 2024

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Table of Contents Madurai Man's Heart Beats for Salem Farmer Somaiya Vidyavihar Univ Appoints Ex-BASF CMD, Raman Ramachandran, as Director of KJSIM Shiv Nadar University (Institution of Eminence), Delhi-NCR Announces Winners of Analytics Olympiad 2022

Madurai Man's Heart Beats for Salem Farmer Monday 19 December 2022 06:15 AM UTC+00 Business Wire India Mohana Perumal, the 36-year-old farmer from Salem, who also used to drive a rented auto as a secondary profession, got a new lease on life at Rela Hospital with a successful heart transplant from a brain-dead patient in Madurai. The heart transplant was performed under the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme. The patient waited for more than 18 months for a perfect match for the transplant. After several unsuccessful attempts for a matching donor, the heart and lung transplant team at Rela Hospital found the match from a brain-dead patient from Rajaji hospital, Madurai. The 6-hour transplant surgery was performed on 17th November 2022 and the Salem farmer was discharged on December 2nd, 2022. As gratitude and in memory of the organ donor, Rela Hospital along with the recipient's family planted a sapling on the Rela Hospital premises.   Mr. Mohana Perumal was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy seven years ago and had severe ventricular dysfunction. They started treatment in Bangalore however owing to a lack of assurance and unaffordable healthcare treatment costs, they started looking for treatment in Chennai. After initial treatment and an 18-month wait, he was given a new lease on life. The heart was harvested from a 27-year-old man from Madurai who had a brain injury due to a road accident and was admitted to the government hospital in Madurai on 14th November 2022. Declared brain dead by doctors, his family was counselled, and they consented to organ donation. The alert for the heart organ was sent to the Tamil Nadu Organ registry which was later allocated to Rela Hospital as per standard registry protocol.   A team of 6 Doctors from Rela Hospital led by Dr. Prem Anand John flew into Madurai and retrieved the heart. Under the green corridor and support of Chennai Traffic Law & Order police, the heart was flown to Chennai airport and transported to Rela Hospital within 80 mins for the heart transplant surgery.   "The history of Mohana Perumal indicates he had heart issues for more than 8 years. Further tests revealed his heart was only 15% functional and a heart transplant was the only lifesaver. This heart condition of Mohana Perumal is quite rare. It affects 8 people out of 100,000 and the survival rates are extremely low- not more than 30% survive one year and nearly 50% lose their life within 5 years. A transplant is the only solution, not for improving quality of life but for survival," said Dr. Mohan R, Senior Consultant and Clinical Lead of Cardiothoracic Surgery / Heart and Lung Transplantation, Rela Hospital.   "Special thanks to efforts of the Government of Tamil Nadu, thru the CMCHIS, many such lives are saved every day. Such high-end procedures being supported by the Government are definitely a blessing. I would also like to congratulate the team of surgeons from the Rela Institute of Cardiac Sciences, not just the transplant surgeons, the anaesthetists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, trained experienced nurses & technicians. It's a collective effort which has got Mr. Mohana Permual's heart beating again. Mohana Perumal is doing well," said Dr. Ilankumaran Kaliamoorthy, CEO of Rela Hospitals.   "We are extremely grateful for all that the doctors did for us. Dr. Mohan and Prem gave us confidence and today we are happily standing in front of you. Knowing my husband's condition, they were confident about the heart transplant surgery. Today, my husband has been given a new life and a new beginning. We also thank the CM Insurance scheme for, without this scheme, we just could not have saved my husband," said Name, Wife of Mohana Perumal.   Mohana Perumal comes to Rela Hospital for his periodic reviews and is on immunosuppressant medicines and is leading a normal life.

Somaiya Vidyavihar Univ Appoints Ex-BASF CMD, Raman Ramachandran, as Director of KJSIM Monday 19 December 2022 08:55 AM UTC+00 Business Wire India Somaiya Vidyavihar University (SVU) has announced the appointment of Raman Ramachandran as the Director of the K J Somaiya Institute of Management (KJSIM). Ramachandran will succeed Dr. Monica Khanna, who will pursue her passion for teaching and research. "We are delighted to announce that Dr. Raman Ramachandran as the Director of KJSIM," said Samir Somaiya, Chancellor, Somaiya Vidyavihar University. He adds, "Raman's deep expertise in strategic thinking, planning, and resource management will enable KJSIM in developing, leading, and executing at the forefront to create a dynamic approach towards education with various stakeholders. K J Somaiya's vision is to build a world-class research and teaching institution that is global in reach for its ideas and universal in its service. With the leadership of Raman, we can design, deliver programs that will further strengthen the impact of the Institute on business and society." Raman Ramachandran, Ph.D, said, "I am extremely honoured and excited to head KJSIM as Director. I look forward to translating my 3 decades of corporate experience to management education and will strive to lead KJSIM to greater heights. I also wish to thank Dr. Monica Khanna, former director for building a great team and a robust platform to build on." Raman is the former Chairman and Managing Director of BASF and Head of the BASF legal entities in South Asia. He spent 22 years with BASF and held many positions of responsibility for the Asia Pacific region and South Asian region. Raman was also a member of the Asia Pacific Business Board, Vice-President, CropLife Asia and chaired the Chemicals and Petrochemicals group of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). He is also the Non-Executive Vice Chairman of board of Calibre chemicals, Independent Director on board of Proklean Technologies. He received a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural from Tamil Nadu University further he pursued Masters in Agricultural from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, and a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide. He is the recipient of Robert S. McNamara Fellow of World Bank in 1990 and was awarded the 'Life Time Achievement Award' by the Chemical & Petrochemicals Sector of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) in 2021.

Shiv Nadar University (Institution of Eminence), Delhi-NCR Announces Winners of Analytics Olympiad 2022 Monday 19 December 2022 01:34 PM UTC+00 Business Wire India   Analytics Olympiad witnesses record participation with over 1000 registrations and 340+ submissions Manish Pathak of MiQ Digital, Varun Jagannath of DBS and Rishi Madhav of Tech Mahindra declared winners of Analytics Olympiad 2022 The Academy of Continuing Education (ACE) at Shiv Nadar University (Institution of Eminence), Delhi-NCR (SNU) organized the Analytics Olympiad 2022, in partnership with MachineHack. The competition brought together participants from across India to showcase their skills in Data Analytics for Business. The event also served as a platform for noted industry leaders to present their diverse perspectives on data science and analytics in business. After two days of intense, thought-provoking, and insightful discussions, the jury declared Manish Pathak, Senior Data Scientist – The winner, Varun Jagannath, Senior Data scientist – The first runner-up, and Rishi Madhav, Presales and Solutions Lead (Data & Analytics) – The second runner-up. The winner received the grand prize of INR 1 lakh. The runners-up in second and third positions were awarded INR 30,000 & INR 20,000 each respectively. The Analytics Olympiad received over 1000 registrations from across the country and following a stringent qualifying round, 340+ submissions were selected. Out of these, only ten candidates were shortlisted to present their ideas in front of the renowned jury panel, some of whom included Mr. Aman Garg, Head of Data & AI – DSP Mutual Fund, Mr. Anubhav Srivastava, Head of Data Science, Digital Ventures - Viacom18 Media, Ms. Megha Sinha, Vice President AI/ML Practice – Genpact, Ms. Ruchi Bubber, Head Sales Analytics – Pernod Ricard and more. Speaking at the event, keynote speaker Dr. Pradeep Chintagunta, Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business said: "You are leveraging information of real people to get insights. You must respect the data as much as you respect the people you're getting data from." He added, "Ethnographic research and experimentation provide hypotheses around consumer insights, and analyses of data provide evidence on whether your hypotheses are supported." In his address, Dr. Bibek Banerjee, Dean of the School of Management and Entrepreneurship and the Founding Dean of ACE at SNU said, "At Shiv Nadar University, we collaborate with the industry to develop solutions to real-life problems on real-time. This was the purpose behind the Analytics Olympiad, where practice leaders, our academic faculty, students and analytics professionals come together on a platform." He added that "Progressive institutions like SNU are moving beyond mere knowledge dissemination and investing into research and development to create knowledge by leveraging digital platforms in a world where zetabytes of data is available at one's fingertips."

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