Medical Assistant

ACADEMIC RECORD:

PhD. in Neuroscience

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Masters in Science (M. Sc), Neurobiology

Laval University, Quebec, Canada

Postgraduate resident in Medical Radio Diagnosis,

University of Madras, India

Doctor of Medicine (M.B., B.S)

University of Madras, India

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

December 2014 Director of Medical Services (DMS), SRM Institute of Medical Sciences, Chennai, India

Formulating policies and procedures to which staff must conform while performing duties in accordance with the policies of SRM Institutes for Medical Sciences.

Oversee the work of medical staff, ensures that patients receive high-quality service and formulates internal procedures with which subordinates must comply when performing tasks and conducts the hiring of personnel and develops staff training sessions on a regular basis.

Formulating Accreditation protocols for National Accreditation Board

For Hospitals and Health Care Organization (similar to JACHO in USA).

Quality Monitoring, Performance improvement by implementation of quality protocols, Patient safety initiatives, Clinical operations

Coordinating new HIS system (NextGen) implementation and outpatient EMR (Evolko) and IP EMR.

Plan and recommend recruitment of Medical consultants after determining the scope for such placements.

Human resources planning for medical services.

New technology evaluation and implementation.

Financial management of the hospital medical services

Business Development- Medical Tourism

Manages Allied Healthcare Medical courses: BSc MLT (Laboratory), BSc MIT (Imaging), BSc RDT (Dialysis) etc.

Manage Fellowship program in Emergency Medicine, PG degree programs of National Board of Education.

2011-

November 2014 Medical Superintendent (MS), Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Teynampet and Apollo Hospitalas, OMR, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.

Coordinated between the project team and operational team in

Commissioning a new 200 bedded hospital in Chennai. Planned for man power requirements and inaugurated for full functioning at OMR Apollo hospital.

Formulated policies and procedures to which staff must conform when

Performing duties in accordance with the policies of Apollo Hospital

Enterprises.

Oversee the work of medical staff, ensures that patients receive high-quality service and formulates internal procedures with which subordinates must comply when performing tasks and conducts the hiring of personnel and develops staff training sessions on a regular basis.

Formulated Accreditation protocols for National Accreditation Board

For Hospitals and Health Care Organization (similar to JACHO in USA).

Quality Monitoring, Performance improvement by implementation of quality protocols, Patient safety initiatives, Clinical operations

Coordinated HIS system implementation

Plan and recommend recruitment of Medical consultants after determining the scope for such placements. Human resources planning for medical services.

New technology evaluation and implementation.

Scientific member, Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC)

2010 Sep- 2011 Medical Superintendent/Head of Operations, Apollo Hospitals, Karur, Tamilnadu, India.

Fully accountable for P&L

Managed the operational activities of the hospital.

Responsible for business development, budgeting and revenue and growth.

Formulated policies and procedures to which staff must conform when performing duties in accordance with the policies of Apollo Hospital Enterprises.

Oversaw the work of medical staff, ensures that the patients receive high-quality medical care.

Defined internal procedures with which subordinates must comply when performing tasks and conducted the hiring of personnel (including consultant doctors).

2010 Jan Senior Consultant and Head of the Department of Neurosciences, Apollo

Hospitals, Bhubaneswar, India.

Guided and directed development of comprehensive neuroscience patient care services.

Recruiting Neurologists, Neurosurgeons and Technicians for the services.

Organizing department space, Laboratory equipment, developing business brochures.

Accreditation compliance for all program components and activities

2008 Jan– 2009 Consultant Neurophysiologist/Neuroscience Program Director, Wockhardt Hospitals, Bangalore, India.

Intra-operative neurosurgical monitoring, establishing sleep study laboratory and deep brain Stimulation program for movement disorders and provided patient care services. Recruited required manpower to run these programs in 8 different hospitals in India

Coordinated all aspects of patient care services in Neurosciences line (Stroke, epilepsy neurodegenerative disorder clinics)

1999 Feb – 2007 Executive Director, Neuroscience program / Neurophysiologist, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Responsible for expanding the scope of services within the neuroscience service lines, assessing new technologies and services, developing advanced neuroscience programs, and preparing the System to respond to new opportunities created by advances in science and changes in health care policy

.

Accountable for P&L

Coordinated Stroke, Epilepsy, Brain injury and Spinal cord injury, Sleep Study, Gamma Knife center, Neurosurgery and Neurodegenerative Disorder Clinics.

Chaired Joint Commission Accreditation Compliance meetings and follow up Budget recommendations

Oversight of the administration of human resources policies and programs within Neurosciences Services.

Supporting the Department Administrator with the day-to-day operations, front-end performance, revenue cycle management, customer service and such other relevant matters affecting the success of Neurosciences Services

ESTABLISHED: Ambulatory EEG, home based sleep monitoring, converted analog EEG to digital, Long term epilepsy monitoring units, real time sleep study data analysis centers, Deep Brain Stimulation Program, Navigational System for Functional neurosurgery, three new satellite Sleep study centers in North east Wisconsin Neurophysiological services for the treatment of Parkinson's disease movement disorders (Deep Brain Stimulation Programming) and spinal cord surgeries.

1995 Nov- 1999 Jan Post-Doctoral Fellow/Associate Professor (Research), Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Extracellular electrophysiological recordings in primate basal ganglia to study the effect of pallidotomy in Parkinson's disease.

Electrophysiological mapping of basal ganglia in movement disorder patients for optimal site location for pallidotomy and deep brain stimulation.

Data base analysis of firing patterns of brain cells affected by Parkinson's disease in humans and primates.

Team member that pioneered in Deep brain stimulation of Sub Thalami Nucleus for Parkinson’s disease.

Teaching Assistant in Neuro-anatomy/Physiology for graduate and under graduate students

1990-1995 Graduate Student (PhD.), University of Calgary, Canada.

Extracellular electrophysiological micro mapping, effect of pharmacological agents on cerebellar physiology, Image capturing, 3-D reconstructions, immunocytochemistry using monoclonal antibodies and anatomical tract tracing in cerebellum.

Teaching Assistant University of Calgary, Canada Cardiovascular and respiratory gross anatomy

Research Assistant, University of Calgary, Canada immunocytochemistry using monoclonal antibodies

1988- 1990 Graduate Student (M. Sc), Department of Neurobiology, Laval University, Canada.

Extracellular electrophysiology of Striatum in primate models of Parkinson's disease

1987-1988 Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Laval University, Canada.

Molecular cloning and sequencing of acid phosphatase genome.

1986-1987 Research Assistant: Division of Head and Neck Cancer Surgery, Tom Baker Cancer Center, Calgary, Canada.

Demographical study of head and neck cancer patients.

1983-1986 Medical Practitioner, Madras, India. Internal Medicine and Radiology.

1980-1982 Postgraduate Resident, Madras, India

Radiological Diagnostic Techniques

1979-1980 Postgraduate Resident, Department of Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine, University of Madras, India.

1978-1979 Intern, Stanley Medical College Hospital, University of Madras, India.

AWARDS:

2011 Life Time Achievement award by Dr. M.G.R. University

1995-1999 NIH fellowship (National Institute of Health, USA)

1991-1994 Studentship (Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Canada)

PUBLICATIONS:

Development and functional organization of cerebellar compartmentation in mammals. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Ph.DThesis: June, 1996, University of Calgary, Canada).

Electrophysiological study of the effects of dopamine in the striatum of the Parkinsonian monkey. (M. Sc Thesis: November, 1989, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.

Hawkes, R., S. Blyth, V. Chockkan, D. Tano, Z. Ji, and C. Mascher (1993) Structural and molecular compartmentation in the cerebellum. Can. J. Neurol. Sci. 20 (suppl.3):S29-S35)

Chockkan, V., and R. Hawkes (1994) Spatial correspondence between zebrin compartmentation and vibrissal receptive fields in lobule IXa of cerebellar vermis in rat. J. Comp. Neurol. 345:33-45

Ranjita, B., R. Turner, V. Chockkan, M. DeLong, K. A. Allers, J. L. Walters, A. I. Levey and J. T. Greenamyre (1997) Dopaminergic neurons intrinsic to the primate striatum (J. Neurosci. 17:6761-6768)

Vitek, J.L, V. Chockkan, J. Y. Zhang, Y. Kaneoke, M. Evatt, M. DeLong, S. Triche, K. Mewes, T. Hasimoto and R.A.E. Bakay (1999) Neuronal activity in the basal ganglia in patients with idiopathic generalized dystonia and hemiballismus: Relevance to current models of movement (Annals of Neurology, 46: (1):22-35).

JL Vitek, RAE Bakay, A Freeman, M Evatt, J Green, W McDonald, M Haber, Barnhart, N Wahlay, S Triche, K Mewes, V. Chockkan, JY Zhang, MR DeLong. Randomized Clinical Trial of GPi Pallidotomy Versus Best Medical Therapy for Parkinson's Disease. Annals of Neurology 53: 558–559, 2003

Bakay RAE, Vitek JL, Evatt M, Zhang JY, Chockkan V, DeLong MR, and Triche S. Pallidotomy and deep brain stimulation as a treatment for dystonia. Neurosurgery 45(3):696, 1999.

Rodriquez-Oroz M, Rodriques M, Guridi J, Klaus M, Chockkan V, Vitek JL, DeLong MR, and Obeso JA. The

subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease: somatotopic organization and physiological characteristics. Brain 124(Pt 9):1777-1790, 2001

ABSTRACTS:

Patel, P.C., Chockkan, V and Govindan, M.V. (1988) Molecular basis of the heterogeneity of human acid phosphatase. Genome, 30: Suppl. 1, p. 67. Abstr. International Congress of Genetics.

Filion, M., Tremblay, L. and Chockkan, V. (1989) Complementarity of the two pallidal segments in primates. Abstr. International Basal Ganglia Soc. Symp.III

Chockkan, V., and R. Hawkes (1993) Comparison of zebrin compartments and vibrissal receptive fields in lobule IXa of the rat cerebellum. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 19:499.8.

Chockkan, V., and R. Hawkes (1993) Vibrissal receptive fields in lobule IXa of the adult rat cerebellum align with zebrin negative Purkinje cell compartments. The Physiologist Vol. 36:4, Neurophysiology of Movement Control 14.23

Chockkan, V., and R. Hawkes (1993) Activity-dependent dye uptake and zebrin compartmentation in the rat cerebellum. Controversies in Neuroscience IV: Cerebellum and Motor Learning, p26.

Chockkan, V., and R. Hawkes (1994) Comparison of functional maps and antigenic maps in the lobule IXa of the adult rat cerebellum. Abstr. International Conference on Neurobiology, Cochin, India.

Chockkan, V., K. Mewes, J. Zhang, P. Starr, R.A.E. Bakay, M. R. DeLong and J. L. Vitek (1997) A comparison of discharge pattern of internal segment neurons of the globus pallidus (GPi) in akinetic and tremor Parkinsonian patients. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.

Zhang, J.Y., K. Mewes, V. Chockkan and J. L. Vitek (1997) The effect of GPe lesions on GPi cell activity and motor behavior in the MPTP treated monkey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.

Rodriguez, M.C., A. Gorspe, A. Mozo, J. Guridi, E. Ramos, G. Linazasoro, J. A. Obeso, V. Chockkan, K. Mewes, J. Vitek and M. DeLong (1997) Characteristics of neuronal activity in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) in Parkinson's disease. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr

Bakay RAE, Vitek JL, Freeman A, Evatt ML, Green J, McDonald W, Haber M, Barnhart H, Triche S, Mewes K, Chockkan V, Zhang J-Y, Wahlay N, and DeLong MR. Randomized trial of pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease. American Academy of Neurological Surgeons, 1998.

Vitek JL, Bakay RAE, Freeman A, Evatt ML, Green J, McDonald W, Haber M, Barnhart H, Triche S, Mewes K, Chockkan V, Zhang J-Y, Wahlay N, and DeLong MR. Randomized clinical trial of pallidotomy versus medical therapy for Parkinson's disease. Fifth International Congress of Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders, 1998.

Vitek JL, Evatt M, Zhang J, Chockkan V, DeLong MR, Triche S, and Bakay RAE. Pallidotomy and deep brain

stimulation as a treatment for dystonia. American Academy of Neurology, 1999.

References: Available on request

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