Background/ Past Experience:
Academic:
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Audiologist and Speech Pathologist at Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Manipal from October, 1976 to December, 1982.
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Lecturer in Speech Pathology and Audiology at KMC, Manipal from December, 1982 to June, 1984.
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Asst. Prof & Chief Audiologist & Speech Pathologist at KMC, Manipal from June, 1984 to September, 1992.
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Reader & In-charge Audiology and Speech-Language pathology Section at KMC, Manipal from September, 1992 to September, 1994.
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Associate Prof. & Chief of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Section at KMC, Manipal from September, 1994 to October, 1996.
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Professor & Head, Dept of Speech and Hearing at Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal from October, 1996 to October, 1999.
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Dean of Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal from October, 1999 till date.
Corporate:
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Vice President- Global Health Services, Manipal Education & Medical Group, Bangalore (2004-2007)
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Consultant to Manipal Universal Learning, Bangalore (2007-till date)
Awards & Fellowships:
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Recipient of three International Fellowships to visit and be trained at Head & Neck Associates, Indianapolis, USA, Charring Cross Hospital, London, U.K. and Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Hospital, New York, USA;
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Winner of " Best Paper Awards" thrice at the Annual Conventions of Indian Speech & Hearing Association
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Member of the first ENT-SLP team to start TEP mode of voice restoration for laryngectomees in India
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Recipient of Dr.Ratna Oration Award, the highest honour of ISHA for contribution to the field of Speech & Hearing
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Distinguished Alumni award of MAHE
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Best Teacher Award thrice
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Fellow of the International Union against Cancer (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland.
Credits:
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Member of the First ENT Specialist – Speech Pathologist team to have implemented Tracheo-Oesophageal puncture and Blom-Singer’s Voice Prosthesis for laryngectomees in India.
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Only Asian to present a paper at the world congress on Rehabilitation of Laryngectomees at London (1990).
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Member of the team to design and manufacture the first indigenous voice prosthesis (HRA prosthesis) for laryngectomees.
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Member of the Academic Council of Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai
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Member of the Advisory Board of the Academic Council of AYJNIHH, Mumbai
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Member of the Doctoral Committee of AIISH, Mysore
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Member of the RCI Expert Committee on Hearing Impairment
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Consultant to Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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Consultant to Operation Smile, USA, India and Vietnam
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President of Indian Speech & Hearing Association for two consecutive terms
Areas of Interest in Teaching:
Voice, Laryngectomy Rehabilitation, Diagnostic Audiology and Cochlear
Implants
Top 5 research publications/ Projects
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Familial Treacher Collin’s Syndrome – Journal of Laryngology and Otology 102:620-622, 1988.
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Surgical voice restoration in alaryngeal patients. Indian J. Otolaryngology, 42: 107-111, 1990 (paper awarded “A01 E. Merck Award” for 1989.)
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Speech Quality after Glossectomy. I.J.of Plastic Surgery 2000; 33:12-16
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Hearing anomalies following radiation therapy for head and neck cancers. I.J.of Experimental Biology 1996; 34:878-79
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Speech recognition in coherently-amplitude modulated noise (A). JASA 2006; 120-5: 3342
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Morphosyntactic deficits in Malayalam-Speaking Broca’s Apahasics. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing, 12:4,303-14,2009
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