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Picture of Dr S B Gogia NAME: Dr. SHASHI BHUSHAN GOGIA
AGE: 59 YEARS
DATE OF BIRTH: 6TH FEBURARY 1955
ADDRESS (RESI/CLINIC): 28/31, Old Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi-110060
PHONE: +91-11-25852291, 25853090
FAX: +91 11 25860163
CELL: +91-9810126883
E-MAIL: sbgogia@amlamed.com. gogia7@gmail.com
WEBSITE: http://www.amlamed.com http://www.sathi.org

QUALIFICATIONS:
M.S. (General Surgery) passed Dec 1981 from A.I.I.M.S. New Delhi
M.B.B.S. cleared in 1977 [internship 1978] from A.I.I.M.S. New Delhi

EXPERIENCE:


CURRENT ATTACHMENTS SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery & Lymphoedema, Medical Informatics, Telemedicine

POSTS HELD:
Organizing Chairperson APAMI 2014 (www.apami2014.com)
President Elect Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics
Co- Chairperson of Working Group (WG) of Telehealth – IMIA (see www.imia.org)
Past President of Indian Association of Medical Informatics (www.iami.org.in)
Founder President of S.A.T.H.I. (Society for Administration of Telemedicine and Healthcare Informatics). www.sathi.org
Organizing APAMI 2014 (meeting of Asia Pacific Association of Medical Informatics) and consequently next President Elect for 2015-16

Other Achievements

  1. Thesis "Role of IPEC in the Treatment of Filarial Lymphoedema of the Extremities" Submitted during post graduation At AIIMS
  2. Designed medical equipment for the treatment of Elephantiasis and associated therapeutic modalities, post malignancy edema and DVT called "Vipel Compression System"
  3. Written A Book "Management of Lymphoedema in Tropical Countries" (see openmed.nic.in/1809/02/gogia.pdf)
  4. Papers /Guest lectures regarding Hand Surgery, Lymphology and Medical Informatics delivered in over 150 National, International and specially organised meets and workshops
  5. Making software for healthcare establishments – Medic Aid and Rheum Aid (This is used for monitoring chronic care recipients – there is a module for Lymphedema also). This has recently been awarded as the best IT project implementation among SME centre for 2012 by PC Quest magazine – see http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/contentimplementation2012/2012/112070411.asp
  6. Innovated an Indian inexpensive variant of the NPWT (Negative Pressure Wound Therapy) machine named SLOVAC
  7. Involved in setting standards for India - Member of the standards committees (MHD 16 for Wound care and Bandages, as well as MHD 17 Healthcare Informatics and EMR) of BIS - Bureau of Indian Standards (www.bis.org.in)
Papers published - around 20 and presented over 150 in national and International conferences

Papers Published – pertaining to Lymphology
  1. Comparative results of non-operative multi-modal therapy for filarial Lymphoedema SB Gogia, NC Appavoo, A Mohan, M Burney Kumar Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, Year 2009, Volume 42, Issue 1 [p. 22-30] DOI: 10.4103/0970-0358.53008 PMID: 19881016 http://www.ijps.org/text.asp?2009/42/1/22/53008 http://bit.ly/nRxjl
  2. COMMENTS: Lymphangiectasis of lower limb. SB Gogia Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, Year 2009, Volume 42, Issue 2 [p. 250-251] PMID: 20368869
  3. Gogia SB. A novel and accurate technique of photographic wound measurement. Indian Journal for Plastic Surgery. 2012;45(2):429
  4. Gogia SB, Gogia AR. Compression therapy for ulcers: The science and the art. Indian Journal for Plastic Surgery. 2012;45(2):275–82

Papers Published – pertaining to IT

  1. Malaviya A N and Gogia S B Development, implementation and benefits of a rheumatology-specific electronic medical record application with automated display of outcome measures International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases 13( 4): 347–360, October 2010 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-185X.2010.01551.x/abstract
  2. Sarbhadhikari S and Gogia S B An Overview of Education and Training of Medical Informatics in India, IMIA Yearbook 2010, pg 75-77
  3. Survey on Medical Records and EHR in Asia-Pacific Region - Languages, Purposes, IDs and Regulations. M. Kimura et all Methods of Information in Medicine 2011 50 4: 386-391 (Special Topic: Health IT in Asia-Pacific Region)
  4. Maeder AJ, Gogia SB, Hartvigsen G. Next Generation Telehealth - Towards. IMIA Yearbook of Health Informatics. 2011:25–30
  5. Gogia SB, Maeder A, Meher S, Mars M, Hartvigsen G, Kuthiala A. Using Personal Handheld Computing Devices for Personalizing Healthcare. A Contribution from the IMIA Working Group on Telehealth. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 2012;7(1):64–71
  6. Kimura M, Croll P, Wong CP, Gogia SB, Faud A, Kwak SA, et al. Survey on Medical Records and EHR in Asia-Pacific Region Languages, Purposes, IDs and Regulations Special Topic: Health IT in Asia-Pacific Region. Methods of Information in Medicine. 2011;50(4):386–91
  7. Gogia, S. B. (2013). Care Records through Document Template or EMR ? The Rheumatology Experience Part I Outcomes, Indian Journal of Medical Informatics, 7(1):29-43
  8. Gogia, S., & Malaviya, A. (2013). Care records through document template or EMR: the Rheumatology experience Part II – User Satisfaction. Indian Journal of Medical Informatics, 7(1): 44-60
  9. Gogia SB, Malaviya A. Electronic Medical Records - Involving the Clinician (Editorial). Indian Journal of Medical Informatics. 2013;7(1):5–6
  10. Gogia S B Towards Unified Standards of Telemedicine for our Country or Our Own HLx Journal of IAMI1, Inaugural Issue. Mar 2003 also available online at http://www.iami.org.in/journal1/index1.asp
  11. Gogia S B Plan for operating a National telemedicine Network” Journal of IAMI, Vol 1 No 1 Mar 2004 (also available online at http://www.iami.org.in/journal1/may04index.asp)
  12. Gogia S B Our own Hlx for Telemedicine Journal of IAMI Vol 1. No 2 Dec 2004 Available online at http://www.iami.org.in/journal1/dec04index.asp
  13. Gogia S B, Maeder A, Hartvigsen N., Mars M. & Meher S. Working Solutions for Telehealth in Low Resource Areas (Int Medical Journal Informatics Association - transcripts of Medinfo 2013, Denmark)

    14. In Computer journals
  14. S B Gogia and Amal Sharma “Multi Select List Boxes for Datawindows” – Powerbuilder Developer’s Journal, January 2008 (http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/category/1160.htm )
  15. S B Gogia et al Converting from ASA to ASE Powerbuilder Developer’s Journal, September 2008 http://pbdj.sys-con.com/node/637179
  16. S B Gogia Methods for Faster and Efficient Data Entry in DataWindows Powerbuilder Developer’s Journal, December 2009 http://sbgogia.sys-con.com/

Chapter in peer reviewed books
  1. Book Title Cases in Managing eServices Chapter Title “Providing Tele mental health services after disasters – based on the Post Tsunami experience” Editor Ada Scupola, Roskilde University, Denmark Publisher IGI Global Pennsylvania, USA, pgs 238-252 (2009)

    2. See http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=8260&v=tableOfContents
  2. Book Title IIIT-A Series on E-Governance:3rd book: IT and Indian Rural HealthCare, Chapter Title Planning for Telemedicine in Community Health Care - the Road Ahead Pg 103-120 Agarwala K.N.( Ed), Macmillan India (2009)

INFORMATICS AND TELEMEDICINE:

  1. President Elect Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI)
  2. Organizing Chairperson 8th Meeting of APAMI – APAMI 2014 in New Delhi (Oct 30th to Nov 2nd)
  3. Nominated as chairperson of the IMIA (www.imia.org) Working group for TeleHealth for 2010 – 2013. Now elected to step down to co-chair to fulfil above duties
  4. Have made an EMR application Medic Aid . The Copyright of which has now been handed over free of cost to a family owned company – AMLA MEDIQUIP (www.amlamed.com) However they have been asked to provide this software to others at extremely low cost to which they are complying to
    • A variant- Rheum Aid. This has recently been awarded as the best IT project implementation among SME centre for 2012 by PC Quest magazine – see http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/contentimplementation2012/2012/112070411.asp
    • ICD 10 coding is part and parcel of all the products produced under this as well as links and possibility to create customized codes
    • Main thrust of programming is on SQL and Power Builder though have tinkered a little with all including Java script, C++, VB and more
  5. Have published articles on programming issues in various Medical Informatics as well as IT Journals – see sbgogia.ulitzer.com
  6. Started working with Telemedicine since 2003 and finding that Telemedicine is not coming up to it promised potential started Society for Administration of Telemedicne and Medical Informatics (SATHI - www.sathi.org) in 2005 and continue to be president of the same
  7. S.A.T.H.I. has been developing Telemedicine solutions for various needs
    • Most famous has been - providing telemedicine based Mental Health support for the Tsunami victims. The methodology adopted being need based has been rated as the way forward for future eHealth projects. The same has been published (see above)

      • Current activities of SATHI
    • Telemedicine Based Vision Care Centres (already present at 10 places in Mizoram) where trained OAs give supportive care and fix appointments for eye problems in the absence of an eye surgeon. We have showcased huge benefits mainly through decreasing and sometimes obviating a need for travel
    • Telemedicine Based Limb Care Clinics –Trial centres at AIIMS as Well as Goa Medical Centres are running. More are under discussion
    • Training videos for Plastic Surgeons
    • Developing low cost Connectivity options including for Video Conferencing
  8. Active member of the National Taskforce for Telemedicine made under the aeges of Ministry of Health Government of India
  9. Past President of Indian Association for Medical Informatics for 2 terms 2006 till 2009
  10. Involved in setting up Ehealth and Healthcare Standards for India - Member of the standards committees (MHD 16 for Wound care and Bandages, as well as MHD 17 Healthcare Informatics and EMR) of BIS - Bureau of Indian Standards (www.bis.org.in)
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