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SWAPNA K. RAJGOPAL

*st Floor, No.*, Kamakshi Nagar,

Near Visalakshi Amman Temple,

Kovaipudur,

Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, 641 042

Mobile: 968-***-**** / 900-***-****

Email: ac21a7@r.postjobfree.com

Education

Mumbai University, July 1994, M.B.B.S. MCI-075240

Mumbai University, July 1997, M.D Microbiology registration-75179 (TN)

NABL Assessor: June 2011

P.G. Diploma in Infectious Diseases-2016 (Apollo hospital and Univ of New South Wales,Au)

Microbiology Laboratory management – 18 years

Work Experience in Medical teaching – Dept of Microbiology - 12 years

Associate professor- 5 Years, 4 months

Infection Control specialist And Personnel training in Infection Control Practices- 7 years

1.Professor and Head,Microbiology, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore :February 2017 till date

Projects, Postgraduate and undergraduate Training and curriculum development

Management of Central lab services

MD Post graduate guide since 2016

Associate Professor Microbiology, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore

August 2015 to February 2017

Lab diagnosis and medical academics

2.Clinical Microbiology Consultant and Infection control Officer,Columbia Asia Hospital Mysore

June 2012 till July 2015

a.Laboratory services and Infection Control Surveillance and Monitoring.

Conducting Internal audits & participating in EQAS.for maintaining lab standards

b. Regular and cyclical surveillance - identifying sources and trends in infection and monitoring antibiotic usage including surgical prophylaxis, MDR related infections and patterns in specific departments, Hospital acquired infection maintaining sterility standards in CSSD, Dialysis, OT, and Laboratory.

c. CME-developing, adapting and disseminating the education and training materials to ensure greater input and participation from all involved staff in the facility and conducted regular education sessions for hospital employees, staff and provided ad-hoc /regular specialist advice and training as requested

d. Liaised with clinical team on daily basis for regular updates and feedback on patient care and activities and on introduction of new practices and procedures and taken initiatives in the maintenance of HAI surveillance within the critical care setting and maintained strict protocol of communication with the professional staff and involved authorities.

e. Followed facility and government protocols by implementing disease outbreak intervention procedures in affected areas of the hospital and of notifying the appropriate public health authorities in the event of an outbreak as and when required.

f. Experience in capacity building of health care workers on infection control,development of training assessment tools and evaluation

3.Associate professor Microbiology Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Kerala

July 2008 –Aug 13 2009.

oLab diagnosis in Serology, Virology and Parasitology.

oConducted Undergraduate courses in Microbiology for MBBS, DMLT and Nursing staff

oTrained and supervised Lab assistants and Staff (CME and Hands-on)

4.Consultant :Clinical Microbiologist /Infection Control Specialist, Lakeshore Hospital, Kerala

January to November 2008:

oLaboratory services

oUp-gradation of Diagnostic services and standardization

oConducting Internal audits and participating in EQUAS.

oTraining of Lab Staff and Infection control course for Nursing staff (CME and Hands-on)

oInfection control monitoring, Surveillance and analysis

oMaintaining lab standards and Infection Control standards for NABH and ISO audits

5.Associate professor Chettinad hospital and Research institute, Kanchipuram Tamilnadu

Jan – Dec 2007

oLab diagnosis in Bacteriology, Virology and Serology, internal audits and Equas

oUndergraduate courses for MBBS and training of Lab staff

oInfection control courses for Nursing staff (CME and Hands-on)

6.Associate professor ASRAM medical college, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh :Jan 2005 to May 2006

oLab diagnosis in Bacteriology, Virology and Serology

oConducting Internal audits & participating in EQuas.

oMaintaining sterility standards in CSSD and OT.

oUndergraduate courses for MBBS and training of Lab staff and Nursing staff (CME and Hands-on)

7.Infection Control specialist: I-TECH (International Training and Education Centre for HIV-India project under Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta) and University of Washington Website: www.go2itech .org Feb 2005 - Dec 2006

Consultant to Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram Sanatorium, Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Rural Development Trust, Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh

oProgram implementation: Streamlining of infection control programme at Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram Sanatorium (GHTM),

oStrengthening Government and private hospital systems and supporting institutional capacity building

o Training of Nurses under NACO and Clinton Foundation on ART care and support

o Training of medical doctors under NACO program on ART and fellowship doctors under CDC,TNSACS and DME

Additional responsibility: IC-Consultant to Rural development trust, Ananthapur, Andhra

Pradesh

oTraining Of Healthcare workers, nurses and clinical staff

oPolicy development and implementation especially work place policy

Monitoring & evaluation tool development and implementation

oResource and Curriculum development and implementation

oUniversal precautions, post exposure prophylaxis and health care personnel safety- implementation and documentation

Resource person on Infection control for NACO

oInteraction with Govt.agencies and NGOs

oDevelopment of curriculum facilitator and participant guide for NACO training for specialists and medical doctors

oConducted infection control trainings for nurse trainers, medical doctors and specialist

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oTraining Doctors Nurses and paramedical staff under NACOand WHO programmes in tambaram hospital and Rural development trust, Ananthapur and fellows under HIV fellowship program conducted under CDC (Atlanta), Directorate of Medical education and TNSACS -2005 and 2006 batches

oCurriculum Development on Infection Control (for NACO ART training, for Clinton-NACO-INC program and HIV fellowship under CDC-GHTM) Feb 2005- March 2007

oDevelopment of Tools to aid the Infection control program at GHTM hospital Chennai and I-TECH programs in the rest of the world

oPost exposure Prophylaxis Protocol

oDevelopment of Bio-medical waste Posters

oMonitoring and Evaluation Checklist for Weekly and quarterly appraisal of the efficacy of the program

oDevelopment of Training assessment tools to assess the efficacy of training: Didactic and Hands-on.

From Jan 2007-April 2007: Curriculum development for NACO TRAINING for medical doctors

and pediatric modules

9. Consultant: Clinical Microbiologist, Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Shankara hospital, Chennai

January 2004 to December 2004 :

oLaboratory services and

oTraining staff on standard lab methodologies

oTraining of lab staff (CME and Hands-on)

oCoordinator of Hospital Infection control Committee

oInfection Control Surveillance Monitoring and analysis

oSetting up goals and improving practices in Infection control

oProcedures for waste management, staff immunization program and initiation of staff medical records

10. Assistant professor - 6 years, 3 months

K.E.M Hospital & Seth GS medical college, Mumbai :September 1997 to Dec 2003

oTeaching Undergraduate courses in Microbiology for MBBS, OTPT, DMLT and Nursing staff

oSupervising MD students,Lab staff and assistants

oAssisted in surveillance and monitoring activities of Infection control under Chairperson IC Committee

oTrained in RNTCP methodology and QC at Tuberculosis Research Centre Chennai.

oPut into practice RNTCP methodologies and conducted regularly quality control of all microscopy centers under the hospital.

oCounseling patients with HIV infection

Paper Presentation

1. "Bacteriological patterns of surgical wound infections" at the Maharastra Chapter Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, 1995, Bombay.

2. "Cryptosporidiosis in Immunocompromised Hosts" at the Teaching Pathologists and Microbiologists Conference of Mumbai, 1997

3. A scientific paper "Prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in patients with HIV infection" at XXII National Congress of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, November, 1998

4. Speaker on Infection Control Strategies in the Era of HIV/AIDS at the 5th International conference on HIV/AIDS held in Chennai, October 2005

Paper publication

Correlation of FNAC aspiration cytology, smear and culture in TB lymphadenitis- a prospective study. Journal of Postgraduate medicine; vol 48, issue 2, 2002

Interpretive challenges in serodiagnosis of leptospirosis and dengue in South India.

International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development.; Volume 3; Issue 7; July 2016; Page No. 358-362

Diagnosis of Chikungunya by a Rapid Immunochromatographic Method in a Tertiary Care Setting 2017, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences Vol 6 Number 3

Prevalence and Antifungal Susceptibilities of Candida spp from a South Indian Tertiary Care Hospital. Int J Med Res Rev 2017;5 (02):98-104. doi:10.17511/ijmrr. 2017.i02.01

Conferences & Relevant Workshops attended

National Workshop on "Laboratory Diagnosis of Diarrhoeal Diseases", L.T.M. Medical College, Sion. Mumbai, 1996

Pre-Congress Workshop on "Rapid diagnostic techniques in Clinical Microbiology with special emphasis to HIV and Tuberculosis" and Conference at XXII National Congress of IAMM at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, November, 1998

Hands on workshop in Gene Amplification techniques in disease diagnosis, AIIMS, New Delhi, Jan 21-25, 2000

Training for Microbiologists, in RNTC Programme, TRC (ICMR), Chennai, 28-8-2000 to 1-09-2000

National conference and workshop in Mycology KEM Hospital and Sion Hospital, 12- 16 Oct.

2000 Association of Professionals in infection control conference (APIC) 2005, Baltimore, US

National Workshop on infectious diseases, Hyderabad July 2006

Intensive course on “TB Diagnostic Research- beyond the basics” under TDR,McGill university FIND and STOP-Tb partnership. December13-15 2010, TRC ICMR, Chennai

NABL/ISO 15189 lab quality management and Internal audit February 2011

NABL/ISO 15189:2007 assessor’s training June 2011

Sepsicon JSS university June 2014

Tricon Trichur August 2014

Cidscon - KMC Banglore-August 2014

Computer experience: Proficient in MS office, PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Internet utilities, LIMS

References: on request

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