On behalf of AMAANA and as adjunct faculty, Dr. Kohkan Shamsi visited JNMC for a lecture program that was held on 7th and 8th Feb in the department of Radiodiagnosis. Prof. Ibne Ahmed, Chairman of Radiodiagnosis, organized this program. The program was attended by faculty members and post graduate students of department of radiodiagnosis and other departments. Professor Shahid Ali Siddiqui, Principal of JNMC also attended the program on the second day. The program included following lectures:
– Good Clinical Practice
– Increasing role of radiologist in drug and medical device clinical trials
– Independent assessment of imaging data acquired in clinical trials
– RECIST 1.0 and RECIST 1.1 (Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors)
– CHESON criteria for assessment of Lymphomas
– Role of Imaging in Alzheimer disease clinical
Dr. Shamsi has provided free access to all faculty members and residents of radiodiagnosis and therapy to online RECIST and other courses that are hosted at Blinded Reader and Investigator Training Institute (BRITI). This will help them to standardize radiological assessment and longitudinal follow-up reporting. BRITI was co-founded by Dr. Shamsi to train radiologists who are involved in assessing CT, MRI and other imaging data acquired in clinical trials.
Dr. Shamsi, MD, PhD, co-founder and principal of RadMD is a radiologist with 25+ years of clinical development experience for drugs and devices.
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1991, MS (General Surgery) 2001
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1990, MD (Pediatrics) 1993. Won 3 Gold Medals and President of India’s Silver Medal during MBBS.
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1976, MD (Medicine)1980
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1992, MD Radiology (1992-95, did not finish, moved to US)
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1995
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1996
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 2002, MD (Radiology) 2007
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 2005, MD (Pathology) 2008
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1991, MD (Anesthesiology) 1994.
Dr. Ashraf Khan received his medical (MBBS) degree in 1980 from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, India following which he did 3-year postgraduate training (MD) in Pathology and then joined as a lecturer in Pathology at the same institution in 1983. In 1985 Dr. Khan moved to England where he trained in Histopathology at Lewisham and Guy’s Hospital of the University of London. This training included experience of working at the Hedley Atkins Breast Unit of the Imperial Cancer Research Foundation at Guy’s Hospital under Dr. Rosemary Millis an internationally recognized breast pathologist who inspired him to become interested in breast pathology. After serving as a senior Registrar in Histopathology for 3 years at Guy’s Hospital and passing the MRCPath examination, Dr. Khan migrated to the United States in 1993 to join as a Surgical Pathology Fellow at University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC). This one-year fellowship was followed by his appointment as an Assistant Professor in Pathology at UMMC in 1994, and worked his way up to his present position as Professor of Pathology (since 2005). He is currently the Director of Surgical Pathology and served as Director of Pathology Residency Program from 2001-08 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is actively involved in the UMASS medical center and medical school administrative functions serving on the Faculty Council, Medical School Admissions Committee, Cancer Committee, and Director of Clinical Labs at UMASS’s Hahnemann and Memorial campuses and Quality Assurance Coordinator of the Hospital Tumor Registry among others.