Medical Quality

CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. ARATI ALVA

CONTACT INFORMATION

Sharjah, UAE

Cell phone- +971*********

Email – ******@*****.***

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth 12/02/1980

Place of birth Shimoga, Karnataka, India

Citizenship Indian

Marital status Married

Spouse- Dr.Trevor Francis Sequeira (MD-Anaesthesia)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Work History- 7 years clinical and teaching experience in the department of Otorhinolaryngology at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India. (From May 23,2005 till Dec 31,2015)

Employed with DM Healthcare as Specialist ENT at Aster Clinic Abu Shagara, Sharjah from Feb 7, 2016 till June 2019. Following that I was given 2 clinics under my care: Aster Clinic, Al Nahda and Aster Clinic, King Faisal Road till April 2020.

My OPD work involved seeing routine ENT patients; treating emergencies like epistaxis and extracting accessible foreign bodies in the ear, nose and throat; incision and drainage of minor abscesses; ear and nose piercing; performing nasal endoscopies and laryngeal endoscopies; biopsies of suspicious lesions from accessible sites in the head and neck region.

EDUCATION

High School- St. Mary’s Catholic High School, Dubai, UAE

Pre-University- Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India from 1996 to

1998

Graduate School- Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India, from 1998 to 2004

Post-Doctoral Training- Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India from May 2005 to April 2008

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

MBBS, MS (ENT)-registered under Karnataka Medical Council

AWARDS

1.Received a grant from the Indian Council of Medical Research for my post graduate thesis titled ‘Role of saliva as a screening test for oral and oropharyngeal malignancies’

2.Received the gold medal for poster presentation in the South Zone Ent

Conference conducted in Belgaum in 2007

3.Received a certificate of appreciation for contributions to publications in the year 2011 from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Mangalore

PUBLICATIONS

Papers Published

1.Salivary Malondialdeyde and Antioxidant status in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients and smokers

Biomedical Research 2010; 21(1):67-70

2.Giant mucocoele of the maxillary sinus-A case report

Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Volume 63, Issue 1 (January 2011), 87 – 88

3.Solitary nasal mass: An unusual diagnosis

American Journal of Otolaryngology 2011;32(4):358-9

4.Papillary carcinoma in a lingual thyroid: An unusual presentation

Ear Nose Throat J 91(7):289-91 (2012)

5.Carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma of the maxillary sinus: A case report

Ear Nose Throat J 91(12):e1-3 (2012)

6.Tuberculosis in the Head And Neck in India: Down but not yet dead

J Mycobac Dis 2014, 4:2

7.Risk factors for development of voice disorders and its impact on the quality of life of school teachers in Mangalore

Journal of clinical and diagnostic research 11(01):MC01-05(2017)

PRESENTATIONS

1.Paper presentation on “Carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma” at the 58th

AOICON 2006 in Lucknow, India

2.Paper presentation on “Deep neck space infections” at the 5th SAARC Otolaryngologists Congress in New Delhi, India in September 2006

3.Poster presentation on “Mastoid abscess as a complication of CSOM” at the 5th

SAARC Otolaryngologists Congress in New Delhi, India in September 2006

4.Poster presentation on “Branchial Anomalies” at the South Zone and 24thAOI Karnataka State Conference in Belgaum, India in October 2006

5.Paper presentation on “Role of saliva as a screening test in oral & oropharyngeal cancer” at the 7th National Conference of the Foundation for Head & Neck Oncology in Mangalore, India in October 2007

6.Paper presentation on “Occupational Noise Induced hearing loss –its prevalence among the traffic Police of Mangalore” at 7th SAARC ENT congress held at Kathmandu, Nepal from 25th to 27th May, 2011

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Involved in undergraduate teaching since residency in Kasturba Medical College as well as postgraduate teaching after joining as faculty in 2008 since 7 and 1/2 years.

SURGERIES PERFORMED

Pre auricular sinus excision, Myringotomy and Grommet insertion, Tympanoplasty, Ossiculoplasty,Cortical Mastoidectomy, Modified radical Mastoidectomy / Radical Mastoidectomy, Septoplasty, FESS, Endoscopic septoplasty, Sphenopalatine artery ligation, Turbinoplasty, Modified Young’s, Nasal bone fracture reduction, Tonsillectomy, Endoscopic Adenoidectomy,Microlaryngeal surgeries (cold steel and CO2 laser), Thyroplasty Uvulopalatophayngoplasty, Thyroidectomy, Neck Dissection, Laryngectomy, Submandibular gland excision, Tracheostomy(open and percutaneous)

ADDITIONAL

1.Guided an Indian Medical Council Research approved undergraduate project on Risk factors for development of voice disorders and its impact on the quality of life of school teachers in Mangalore in 2012

2.Trained as an Internal Quality Auditor (ISO 9001: 2008) and actively participated in hospital audits and ISO certification

3.Trained as an Internal Quality Auditor on Environmental Management

System (ISO 14001:2004)

4.Trained in the NABH Standard(3rdedition) and part of the team which was involved in attaining accreditation

5.Attended an intense hands on workshop on Competency Based Curriculum

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Life member of Association of Otolaryngologists of India

Life member of AOI-Karnataka State Chapter

Life member of AOI South Zone

INTERESTS

HEAD AND NECK SURGERY and PAEDIATRIC ORL

DECLARATION:

I hereby declare that the above details are true to the best of my knowledge.

DR. ARATI ALVA

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