India – Annual Report
India
Indian National Science Academy
The following have been elected as the New Office-Bearers and Executive Committee members of the Society for the term April 2008 – March 2010:
| President | Dr. V. Prakash Director Central Food Technological Research Institute & President Nutrition Society of India Mysore – 570 020 |
| Vice-Presidents | Dr. G. N. V. Brahmam Deputy Director (Sr.Gr.) & Head, Division of Field Studies National Institute of Nutrition, HyderabadProf. S. V. Rana Additional Professor, Dept. of Superspeciality of Gastroenterology, PGIMER, Chandigarh |
| Secretary | Dr. Priti V Taneja Professor & Head, Dept. of Physiology MGM Medical College, Indore |
| Joint Secretary | Dr. K. Madhavan Nair Deputy Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
| Treasurer | Dr. M. Raghunath Deputy Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
| Ex-Officio | Dr. B. Sesikeran Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
Executive Committee Members
1. Dr.G. Bhanuprakash Reddy, Hyderabad
2. Dr. R. Hemalatha, Hyderabad
3. Prof. Rajoo Singh Chhina, Ludhiana
4. Dr. S.K.Mann, Ludhiana
5. Prof. G. Subbulakshmi, Mumbai
6. Dr. K. Sheela, Meghalaya
7. Dr. S. Rajagopalan, Chennai
8. Dr. Vandana Bharathi, Indore
9. Mrs. Sunita Malhotra, Chandigarh
10. Dr. Vidyadhar Kawalkar, Bhopal
11. Dr. Prema Ramachandran, New Delhi
12. Dr. Anura Kurpad, Bangalore
13. Dr. A.N. Radha, Nagpur
2003 – 2004 Activities
- The XXXVI Annual Meetings of the Society were held during 5-6 November 2004 at Mysore and were jointly organized by the University of Mysore, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) and Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), Mysore. The inaugural session and all scientific sessions were held at CFTRI while the concluding session was conducted at University of Mysore, Mysore. About 1500 delegates and invitees attended the meeting.
- Prof. Mark L. Wahlqvist, President, IUNS and Director, Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia inaugurated the annual meetings of the Society. Dr. V. Prakash, Director, CFTRI delivered the keynote address. Dr. Kamala Krishnaswamy, President of the Society presided over the function.
- Two symposia on “Critical determinants of pregnancy outcome” and “Bridging the nutrition gap through value addition” were organised during the meetings.
- Prof. Mark L. Wahlqvist, President, IUNS and Director, Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia regarded as Australia’s most eminent nutritionist delivered the twentyeighth Gopalan Oration on “The New Nutrition Science: Solutions for Development”.
- Dr. Kamala Krishnaswamy, Former Director, NIN, ICMR Emeritus Medical Scientist, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad delivered the Sixteenth Srikantia Memorial Lecture on “Turmeric – the salt of the orient is the spice of life”.
- A total of 12 papers (Community and Experimental Nutrition), were presented in the Awards Session.