Medical Referrals Asia

A Snapshot of Medical Referrals Asia

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About Medical Referrals Asia

Two year old patient referral and facilitation company that has the trust of eminent doctors, such as Dr. Naresh Trehan (Cardiology), Dr. Lye Wai Chung (Renal Tansplant), Dr. Manoranjan Chowhan (Nuclear Medicine), Dr. Vijaya Kumari Multi Organ Transplant), Dr. Suman Gupta (MIPH), Dr A Venkatachalam (Joint Replacement), and more
Currently, our Inbound patient referrals are to: Medanta, Artemis, Fortis, Apollo, Sir Ganga Ram, Aashlok, Chettinad Health City
Currently our outbound patient referrals are to : Parkway Group of Hospitals (Singapore) – Gleneagles, Mt. St. Elizabeth; Akshey Hospital (Uzbekistan)
Exclusive agents for Parkway Group of Hospitals, Singapore, for whom we have facilitated a majority of their patients from India in the last two years

Key Differentiators

We have medically qualified staff that carries out a proper assessment of the quality of care and clinical standards within a healthcare facility
We ongoingly compare the quality of healthcare providers in different countries as well as in India
Our recommendation to customers is not based on a “familiarization visits” or financial arrangements between us and hospitals. We are focused completely on our patients’ well being and select doctors and hospitals that are appropriate to the patient, as recommended by our Board.
We have a Medical Director who oversees our facilitation process.
Our outcomes are available on request.
Our biggest strength is our medical resource of 3,000 doctor network that is spread out over three continents.

Specialties

We specialize in facilitating clients with the help of expert specialists in Cardiology, Oncology, Renal and Hepatology, and Stem Cell.

Medical Referral Asia Treatment Flowchart

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SURGEON OF THE MONTH: DR. A. S. SOIN – OVER 7,500 LIVER, BILARY CANCER AND NON CANCER SURGERIES

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Surgeon Spotlight: Dr. A. S. Soin’s Center Rates Among the Top Three in the World

MBBS (AIIMS), MS (AIIMS), FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Transplant Surgery)-Cambridge, Dr. A.S. Soin is presently a Senior Consultant Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, and Director of Liver Transplantation at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Academic Career (Summary) Dr Soin's initial surgical training was at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He spent 11 years there gaining his MBBS and MS degrees followed by specialist experience in Liver and Gastrointestinal Surgery, during which he published a research thesis on on Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy .

He then obtained FRCS degrees from both Glasgow and Edinburgh in the UK, following which he trained and worked at two of the world's most renowned centers (University of Cambridge 5 years, University of Birmingham 1 year) for Liver and Biliary Surgery, and Liver, Kidney, Small Bowel and Pancreas transplantation for 6 years. He was one of the first few surgeons in the UK to qualify for and obtain an Intercollegiate FRCS in Transplant Surgery.

In addition to performing hundreds of transplants, he was Surgical Tutor for the University of Cambridge, and Faculty for 2 of the Royal Colleges in Surgery. At Cambridge, he also conducted pioneering research in transplantation. Nearly 100 of his original research papers and book contributionshave been published in international and national journals and books

He was a Visiting Fellow at the Kyoto University Hospital in 1997 and Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, in 2000. He wasVisiting Faculty at the Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in 2004, and Istanbul in 2006 and 2007. These centres are among the world's most renowned for living donor liver transplantation.

In the beginning of 1998, he gave up the opportunity of a Faculty post at University of Cambridge and chose to return to India to establish a centre of excellence in liver transplantation in his own country.

In India, he has the unique distinction of having established two centres for liver transplantation in Delhi, initially at Apollo Hospital, and then at his current institution, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.

After 3 years of pioneering work in Transplantation at Apollo Hospital, he left the Hospital in pursuit of academic excellence and joined Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) where he has been working for the last 8 years.

At Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, he has established India's first internationally acclaimed and a highly successful state-of-the art facility for pediatric and adult liver transplantation. At this centre, he and his team currently perform the highest number of liver transplants in India at about 12-14/month, with a success rate of 95% which compares with the best in the world.

Having performed more than 425 liver transplants at SGRH so far, his centre now rates among the first three in the world in the speciality of living donor liver transplantation, which is regarded as probably the most complex in all of medicine.

Besides running their own highly successful programme, he and his team are also responsible for training most of the remaining liver transplant teams in the country that have recently started performing this procedure. In disseminating expertise countrywide, building confidence in the procedure among both, patients and their referring physicians, and in moving it from the realm of experimental status to a highly successful life-saving procedure, he has in the true sense, pioneered the development of this speciality in India in the last 11 years.

He also specializes in complex liver, gall bladder and bile duct surgeries for cancer and bile duct strictures which get referred to him from all over the country and abroad. He has performed more than 7500 such liver and biliary cancer and non-cancer surgeries so far.

He continues to be deeply involved in academic and research activities. He has at the Indian Medical Association Surgical Postgraduate Teaching Course and is a Senior Faculty Member for one of India's most sought afterspecialist DNB courses in Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. He also runs the country's only structured Liver Transplant Surgery Fellowship Training programme, and is a PhD thesis supervisor. He is an Examiner for the DNB, India andMRCS, UK, and teaches at India's Ethicon Institute of Surgical Training and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh advanced surgical skills courses.

He is currently supervising, 2 Liver Transplant Fellowship and 7 DNB research thesis projects.

He is a member of most national and international professional bodies in his speciality. He has been nominated to 3 National Advisory Boards in his speciality, and is advisor to many institutions including AIIMS for development of their liver transplant programmes.

In India, he has organized 3 National and 4 International level conferences in the field of Transplantation.

Need An Appointment? Call Vikkesh Khetarpal, Medical Referrals Asia.
If you or a loved one need assistance or information on any aspect of liver or renal transplant, please do not hesitate to contact us at Medical Referrals Asia. Our track record on facilitation and management of transplants is well appreciated by patients, hospitals and doctors alike. We are the preferred patient facilitator group for Singapore-based Parkway Healthcare Group (Mount St. Elizabeth Hospital and Gleneagles Hospital) as well as for reknowned transplant surgeons such as Dr. K.C. Tan, Dr. A. S. Soin, and Dr. Raj Shekhar. In all, these doctors have succesfully performed over 1,500 liver transplants in the LDLT program. since 2002. These are some of the best doctors in Asia, and if there was a rating system, they would rank among the best in the world.
Mobile: +91 9873062688.

Overseas Budget Calculator– how much does treatment cost?

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Top Medical Resource

Overseas Budget Calculator– how much does treatment cost?

The incredibly high cost of health care in the US might be better tolerated if the enormous expense led to better health but this hasn’t been

the case. According to a World Health Organization study, the United States ranked 15th among 25 industrialized nations based on a wide variety of health measures including infant mortality, the percentage of the population who have access to health care and the incidence of degenerative disease. The United States ranks behind the entire European Union and countries such as Cuba, South Korea, Singapore, Aruba, Greece and the Czech Republic.

If you’re exploring the benefits of travelling abroad for treatment, here’s one way to tackle the costs. Obviously, you would want to check out several other parameters, based on competence, ability, facilities, reputation, la

nguage, and more.

Expenses at Hospitals Abroad

Use this estimator, posted on US News and World Report

It was taken from Patients Beyond Borders, a bestselling series of consumer guides to international medical travel that have helped thousands of patients plan for successful procedures abroad.

This is a rough guide and if you need further assistance in exploring and developing a treatment plan, feel free to contact me.

Praveer Shukla

Mobile: +91 9968593025

Skype: medreferrals

Email: praveer@medrefasia.com

FieldNotes:Medanta Medicity Update – The Unstoppable Dr. Naresh Trehan

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Coming Soon - Medanta Medicity Soft Launch, 1st Week December 2008. Watch This Space!

(Praveer Shukla)

Medicity Construction Underway At Gurgaon, India

Always at the leading edge of treatment + technology, Dr. Naresh Trehan also keeps people on their toes, even in times of recession. His passion is Medicity, one of India’s largest projects in multi-specialty tertiary care medical treatment – and construction is in full swing here. It is envisioned as an institute that will redefine standards of excellence in healthcare delivery by bringing together the best of infrastructure, technology, training, education and medical intelligentsia.

In 1969 Dr. Trehan was one of hundreds of Indians who went to to the United States. By the mid-1980’s was earning over $1.5 million a year as a Manhattan heart surgeon. Then he did what few Indian doctors do: he came back, prompted largely by the Indians who kept showing up on his operating table and asking why they could not get the same quality of care back home. He was driven to return, he said, by ”a certain amount of arrogance — a kind of national pride.”

‘‘I could do things better than most of my American counterparts,” he said.

He decided against practicing in an established hospital. Instead, with an industrialist backer, he founded his vision of a private heart institute and research center, The Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center and pioneered many aspects of cardiac surgery.

Today, he’s on a tryst with a new destiny with Medanta Medicity.

WHAT”s Unique about Medicity? Medicity aims to functionally integrate within one campus and one management the facilities of medical care, teaching as well as research and development. It also offers to explore the possibility of integrating knowledge of traditional and alternative medicine with modern medicine, through means of scientific research.

Medicity Views – when completed

With an investment of over $350 million, Medicity aims to create a world-class education and training centre backed by remarkable infrastructure, futuristic technology – that’s the extraordinary vision of Dr Naresh Trehan.

Medicity will offer a 1600 bed medical institute of world standards. The objective of Medicity is to bring in global healthcare delivery standards at affordable prices while firmly placing India on the international road map as premier destination for healthcare services, medical research and high-end medical diagnostics.

Besides offering the best of preventive and curative medicine, Medicity also offers to explore integrating the knowledge of traditional and alternative medicine with modern medicine, through means of scientific research.

Specialities

Medicity will provide integrated primary, secondary and tertiary care services spanning over 20 super-specialties and high-end services in:

Cardiology and cardiovascular surgery
Oncology (including medical, radiation and surgical oncology services)
Neurosciences (neurology and neurosurgery)
Musculo-skeletal (advanced orthopedics, joint replacements, rheumatology and physical medicine)
Transplant services
Minimal access surgery including robotic surgery
Nephrology
Advanced pediatrics, neonatology, gynecology and obstetrics
Ophthalmology
Internal medicine and respiratory medicine
Plastic and reconstructive surgery
Gastroenterology and hepatology
Dermatology
Dental and oral health (including oral and maxillofacial surgery)
Endocrinology
ENT
Geriatrics

Traditional Medical Practices

An important objective of Medicity will be to validate – and integrate with modern medical system – those medical practices in our traditional and complimentary systems of medicine such as Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Tibetan and tribal systems that are compatible with science.

Perhaps Dr. Trehan would agree with Isaac Disraeli who said “It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.”

Medical Referrals has the honor of listing Dr. Trehan among its Authors and Contributors.

‘Pay It Forward’ Transplant Recipient, Now Counselor With Medical Referrals

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Mr.K M Lal is a director with a media organization in New Delhi, and he provides counseling support to renal transplant patients at Medical Referrals Asia.

I was diagnosed with Acute Renal failure in 1999. At the time, I lived in Gorakhpur, India, and was treated there for a year. One of the hardest things to come to terms with was that medication is just treatment, but not the cure. Kidney failure can be alleviated with medicines but not for long.

My symptoms were

Swelling, especially of the legs and feet
Little or no urine output
Thirst and a dry mouth
Rapid heart rate
Dizziness
Loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting
Feeling confused, anxious and restless, or sleepy
Flank pain – pain on one side of the back, just below the rib cage and above the waist.

I came to New Delhi to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for further treatment under the care of Professor S. C. Tiwari.

My Whole World Turned Upside Down

Quite honestly, I was in a state of shock when I was told that my kidneys had failed and was told the consequences: seizures, bleeding, coma – and ultimately, death.

I am blessed with two children and I have a very loving wife. We have healthy habits and lead normal lives. None of us, before my diagnosis, had encountered prolonged illness. I don’t drink or smoke. I had a responsible position in an organization. What happened?

At 43, my whole world suddenly turned upside down. My biggest concern was that as the only earning member in the family – how would I take care of my home, children, the whole responsibility of the household – and along with all of this, the expense of my medicines and my treatment, all in the same package. It was a very tense period for me,

There is no specific treatment shown to unequivocally slow the worsening of chronic kidney disease. Diagnosed with severe CKD, the recommendation from Dr. Tiwari was to have a kidney transplant.

I could not put off having a transplant operation, and began the process of looking for a donor.

The first hurdle was: none of my family members had the same blood group match.

Legal vs. Illegal Alternatives

In India, the only way to have a transplant operation is if a family member donates an organ. That route looked like it was shut for me. I also visited the Singapore facilities to Discuss the status of Emotionally related donor and the legalities. Medrefasia guided me and was at my side all the way through in India and in Singapore.

Life was much easier with their support and backing. The doctors provided me complete support and gave a petient ear to my problems. Medrefasia people updated me of all developments taking in the case much before the doctor came in and told me about it.

There are legal ways to obtain a kidney and there are illegal ways. I considered what the consequences of taking the illegal route were. It is illegal to follow that route, but it is not illegal to consider it.

The first thing that occurred to me as I considered it was, even if I did get a kidney replacement, who would verify that it was healthy? Who would verify that the donor’s blood group was a match? Which organization would guarantee that the entire transplant process would be successful with an organ with suspect origins?

The entire transplant process would be a fiasco.

Before abandoning this pathway, I also looked for evidence that there actually were successful transplant surgeries conducted with illegally obtained organs – and the statistics were horrible. The recipients mostly died of infection or poor blood matching, or a variety of other complications.

An angel appeared!

I am highly grateful and thankful to my sister-in-law. She is like an angel to me. If I am here today, and sharing my experience with you all, it is only possible because she donated a kidney to me, and saved my life. When all the doors looked like they were shut, my sister-in-law offered one of her kidneys.

There is a myth that the donor suffers after she donates an organ but I must tell you this is untrue. The donor remains absolutely healthy and does not suffer from any ailments. There is a whole process that a donor goes through, including a thorough medical check and psychological evaluation and counseling which last several weeks.

Gratitude

My transplant has been successful. It has been 6 years. Looking back, I don’t really know how things fell into place. I know I had God on my side and am so grateful to the doctors who treated me – they were God-sent angels.

After the transplant, life has returned to normal – in other words, I have the same kinds of stress and accomplishments as anyone else.

Initially however, I lived in great fear of infection and organ rejection. The doctors assured me that they would let me know if there really was something to worry about, but I couldn’t shake the fear. Finally, I was told that one way to move past the fear could be to take on counseling other people who were facing the situation I had been in not so long ago.

Pay It Forward

I undertook training to be a counselor, and provided support to several hundred people at AIIMS for a few years, and that was hugely satisfying. It was my way of giving back to people – and, without even realizing it, I lost a paralyzing fear.

If you have a question, or need assistance in any way, I am now available here at Medical Referrals. Please email me, or contact Vikkesh. His organization played a major role in my recovery, and you could not have better professionals on your side.”

An Australian, A Singaporean, & A South Indian – and it’s a victory for cross border stem cell therapy

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Stem Cell Transplant: Hope & Life

For 22 year old S. Vigneshwaran blood cancer could have spelt the end. “We had lost all almost everything in five years of treatment. But my classmates took up the matter with my department head and they started raising funds.” The students of Anna University’s Guindy Engineering College raised a massive US$ 90,000, halfway to the estimated US$1,80,000 needed for stem cell therapy.

That’s when a philanthropic South Indian businessman stepped in to fill the gap.

Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia went through agonizing times. When they stumbled across possible treatments in stem cell therapy, they looked for options in India but ran across stumbling blocks:stem cell samples from from blood relatives did not match; and there was no cord blood bank in the country.

That’s when an unknown Australian donor stepped in to fill in the other gap. Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore, a Parkway hospital stepped in, and within a week, located the donor.

The end of the road for Vigneshwaran’s AML was when Singaporean Dr. Patrick Tan, Mount Elizabeth Hospital performed the transplant. Two years later, this week, he has been declared cured of a disease where once, untimely and tragic death was considered inevitable.

Cross Border Health is much more than medical tourism

The engine that drives it is international co-operation, co-ordination and collaboration in the interests of patients. Vigneshwaran’s case also brings into focus the need for active government participation in encouraging stem cell research and therapy in India, support for patients in the face of astronomical costs, and the need to allow foreign donor participation in the country.

Vigneshwaran’s Dream

Vigneshwaran hopes that his story of successfully fighting the disease will encourage hundreds of blood cancer patients and their family members to opt vigorously for stem cell therapy.

The End of the Superstitious approach to Stem Cell Therapy – the start of a worldwide political and scientific movement

Stem Cell research and therapy has been shadowed by skewed opinions and religious undertones. The issues are too wide to discuss in a blog. Suffice it to say that there is movement on the issues.

For example, recently,

Indian Union Minister for Science and Technology, Kapil Sibal, said the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) will invest approximately US$ 5 million over a period of two months for strengthening stem cell research in the country.

And to present the icing on the Cake

President Obama will begin the process of dismantling barriers to research in the US in this vital area that promises effective treatments for grave diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and diabetes.

Authors and Contributors

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Medical Referrals Asia
Voices of Quality Healthcare

Vikkesh Khetarpal
Tie Up With Vikkesh

Vikkesh is the front end of a pool of 1,400 world-renowned doctors, and an organization that provides facilities that comply with international standards.

For Patients
The opportunity to access high quality and niche medical services that deliver high-end treatments with 85-90% success rates. the key highlights of the advanced and specialist clinical programs include

Stem Cell Transplant for Hematological disorders
Not only Autologus but Allogenic Stem Cell Transplants
Unrelated Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplant for Hematological Disorders
ABO Incompatible Renal Transplant Program
Live donor transplant programs for major organs for example, Liver and Kidney

For Doctors
The opportunity are:

Training at Singapore with the objective of upgrading skill sets in the latest medical procedures depending on individual requirements
Presenting papers/experience as a speaker/participant in International conferences/events/seminar’s
Enhanced Cross border references for diseases that are life threatening besides exclusive arrangements for post operative care of such patients.

Whether you’re a patient or a doctor, to further satisfy your curiosity about these opportunities services you can email Vikkesh at vikesh@medrefasia.com.

Dr. Naresh Trehan
In 1969 Dr. Trehan was one of hundreds of Indians who went to to the United States. By the mid-1980’s was earning over $1.5 million a year as a Manhattan heart surgeon.

Then he did what few Indian doctors do: he came back, prompted largely by the Indians who kept showing up on his operating table and asking why they could not get the same quality of care back home. He was driven to return, he said, by ”a certain amount of arrogance — a kind of national pride.”

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS
Chairman and Managing Director Global Health Pvt. Ltd. (MediCity)
Senior Consultant, Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi
Personal Surgeon to the President of India.
Honorary Visiting Professor, Cardiovascular Surgery, LPS Institute of Cardiology, Kanpur (U.P.)
Appointed as Honorary Consultant, Cardiothoracic Surgery, to the Armed Forces Medical Services, with effect
Appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor of Surgery, Bangladesh Medical College, Dhaka

HONORS

PADMA BHUSHAN AWARD by President of India in recognition of distinguished service in the field of Medicine in 2001.
PADMASHRI AWARD by President of India in recognition of distinguished service in the field of Surgery in 1991.
Doctor of Science Honoris Causa at the “18th Convocation of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi” in March 1996, for recognition of his attainment and position of eminence and contributions made by him for the country and the people of India.
Doctor of Science Honoris Causa is conferred on the occasion of the convocation of the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 4th March 2004.
Honorary Fellow Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Australia in 2002.
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Award in the services category for yeoman services to the healthcare industry.
Doctor of Science, being conferred by King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, on 22nd Janaury’2007.

Dr. A. K. Venkatachalam
Dr.Venkat acquired his MS in Orthopedics from one of Asia’s busiest orthopedic institutes, The Central Institute of Orthopaedics at Safdarjang hospital, New Delhi. His interests in Joint replacements took him to the UK where he gained extensive training at some of the best hospitals as a specialist registrar. These include Alderhey hospital, Addenbrooke’s hospital, Royal Liverpool hospital etc. He acquired post graduate qualifications from India and the UK

In the UK he got a sound exposure in all super specialties like Joint replacements, revision surgery, arthroscopy, spinal surgery, paediatric orthopaedic surgery, hand and foot surgery and trauma.

He has been working as a consultant in private hospitals in India and abroad for the last twelve years. His teaching appointments include the post of an Assistant Professor at the Chettinad medical college, Tamil nadu, India.

He is presently a consultant at the Chettinad health city’s super specialty hospital.

Dr. Manoranjan Chowhan
Dr. Chowhan is a Nuclear Medicine Consultant, currently heading the Nuclear Medicine Unit in a large quartarnary care hospital in Pune.The Unit has installed latest Time of Flight PET-CT, the first of its kind in Asia.

His professional career spans over 18 years practice in super specialty hospitals of international prominence, leading the Nuclear Medicine Unit. He has been actively involved in medical practice and teaching general Nuclear Medicine, treating patients of thyroid disease, thyroid cancer, neuroendocrine tumors hepatic tumors, painful bone metastases, besides neuroblastomas.

He has expertise in areas of intraoperative localization of sentinel node in breast cancer, melanoma and other tumors where conservative treatment can be planned, thus avoiding painful, mutilating major surgery.

His training in Germany provides him with the expertise to treat cases of arthritis with radionuclides. He is an ex-fellow of TUM, Germany for Molecular imaging and PET-CT. Aside from this, Dr. Chowhan teaches postgraduate doctors and has also researched, published and presented many papers in national and international fora.

Dr. Chowhan has conducted several CMEs in India and the Middle East for doctors and specialists. He has recently addressed the international faculty in Toronto at a Congress held on Carcinoid Syndrome and Neuroendocrine Tumors.

Dr. Helai Gupta
Dr. Helai Gupta is an M.B.B.S , M.D. (OBST & GYNAE), with a practice that spans almost two decades, and consultancies in well regarded hospitals and clinics, such as Eden Hospital, Spring Meadows Hospital, the National Heart Institute, and La Femme.

Dr. Suman Gupta
Dr. Suman Gupta is a Consultant Laproscopic and General Surgeon, He is affiliated with Eden Hospital as its Medical Director, and consults at Moolchand Hospital, National Heart Institute, G.R Kaila Hospital He is also a visiting consultant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Spring Meadows Hospital, R.G Stone Urology & Laproscopy Hospital.

Dr. Dina I. Arnopolskaya
Dr. Dina I. Arnopolskaya joins us from Tashkent, where she practices cardiac medicine.

Currently, she is Senior Consultant Cardiologist with KozTibService Ltd, and also serves in the same capacity with Nurshah Ltd

In the past, she has been associated with the Research Institute of Medical Rehabilitation And Physical Therapy of Health Ministry of Uzbekistan, as a Doctor and with the Institute’s Department of Cardiology as a Senior Scientific Worker.

Dr. Arnopolskaya has been published frequently. Some of her works are “Effect of Valsartan and Lisinopril in Combination with Balneotheraphy on Hemodynamics, Endothelial Function;Tolerance to Physical Exercise and Quality of Life in Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Arterial Hypertension”, Guidebook “Basis ECG” (Tashkent, 2008)

Dr. Arnopolskaya is available for consultation in her native Russian and in English, and Uzbek, as well.

Ritu Schimer Dhingra

Ritu holds a Masters Degree in Applied Psychology. She is a results driven project and program management professional with first rate skills in directing full cycles for complex, multisite programs and initiatives. She has a proven ability to deliver substantial productivity and quality improvement through well managed, on-time projects. Main focus: training, coaching and evaluation. She is certified in the field of stress management, and supports patients in dealing with issues of coping with the effects of ill health.

Ritu is engaged in projects with UNFPA, WHO, and VIMHANS, and is well known in the field of mental health for her work with school principals, teachers and children in India and in Indonesia. She has been Head of the Psychology Department of Delhi Public School, and worked with the Crimes Against Women Cell, Delhi Police. Her articles have been published by professional journals, such as the Indian Psychology Journal.