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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

  1. 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.
  2.  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.
  3. Two symposia on “Critical determinants of pregnancy outcome” and “Bridging the nutrition gap through value addition” were organised during the meetings.
  4.  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”.
  5. 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”.
  6. A total of 12 papers (Community and Experimental Nutrition), were presented in the Awards Session.