Dr. Narendran Gopalan, Scientist ‘F’( Medical), Senior Deputy Director
Administrative responsibilities:
- SRC Institutional Ethics Committee, Member Secretary, 2012-Till date
- Data Safety Monitoring Board Member Secretary, 2014-Till date
- Translational Research Cell, Chair Person, 2012-Till date
- Annual Day Celebration Committee, Chair Person, 2012-Till date
Membership of Professional Societies/Institutions:
- Ex-affiliate member , Fellow of the American college of Chest physicians
- Member, International AIDS Society 2012-2013, 2016-
- Member of CDSCO monitoring committee Chennai – subject expert
- Member MD chest curriculum, Dr.M.G.R Medical University 2013
Education:
- Madras Medical College, Madras, M.B, B.S, Medicine, 1997
- Madras Medical College, Madras, (D.T.R.D.) TB and Chest diseases, 2000
- Institute of Thoracic Medicine, Madras Medical College, Madras (Master degree in Chest, National Board, New Delhi), D.N.B.(Chest), 2002, Pulmonology
Teaching experience:
- Teaching faculty for HIV fellowship program – CDC , at tambaram
- TRC teaching faculty to Chest, SPM and MD general medicine Post graduates and under graduates posted to NIRT from various medical colleges within India
Honours/Awards:
- Blacklock Thompson Gold medal in Surgery, Madras Medical College, Madras.
- University first in D.T.R.D., Madras Medical College, Madras.
- First Prize in Radiology, American college of Chest physicians, South India Chapter
- Second Prize in Radiology, National Tuberculosis Conference, Madras, 2001.
- NASI SCOPUS – National Young Scientist Award in Medicine for 2014 conducted by the National Science Academy of India , sponsored by Elsivier
- Oral presentation at International Conferences:
- First Author- Daily regimen is better than intermittent regimen in HIV with pulmonary TB –AIDS 2016 Durban, South Africa
- First Author “Role of IL-6 as a predictor of paradoxical IRIS among a HIV-TB cohort in India” in the satellite conference –THSA20 presented at the AIDS 2012 conference at Washington DC, USA
