Editorial Board Member

Krishan Kumar Sony

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr. Krishan Kumar Sony (KKS) is Associate Professor (Clinical Psychology) of Department of Psychiatry with Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He has done his study from Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), His main area of Interest are Personality, Neuropsychology and Psychotherapy. He is Life Fellow of Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists and member of various International and National body like Association for Psychological Science, (APS), (Washington, DC 20005-2727 USA), President Walter Mischel. International Association of Holistic Psychology (IAHP), Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI). He is Member of State Mental Health Haryana and Editor and Deputy Editor of various reputed Journals.

Puneet Raina

Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology
PG DAV College, Sec-10, Chandigarh

Dr. Raina is an Assistant Professor in Zoology carrying out teaching and research at Post-Graduate DAV College, Sec-10, Chandigarh India. He completed his Ph.D. in Zoology from Panjab University Chandigarh, probing the role of metacaspase and heat shock protein 70 genes in the programmed cell death process in Leishmania donovani. The study entailed manual design of antisense oligonucleotides for carrying out gene knockdown. He has an experience of 15+ years of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes in the field of Zoology at the college and University levels. His research interests include intracellular pathogens, infection biology, vaccine design, immunometabolism, design of small molecule inhibitors, and herbal medicine. Current research in his lab is focused on searching for novel therapeutic agents against visceral leishmaniasis. His research lab has received funding from SERB, DST, New Delhi, and CSIR, New Delhi. Dr. Raina has delivered invited talks on intracellular pathogens, vaccination, and immunology. Dr. Raina is a life member of the Indian Science Congress Association (Kolkata), the National Academy of Vector Borne Diseases (Orissa), and Chandigarh Vigyan Parishad (Vigyan Bharati).

Naveen Airi

Senior Medical Officer
Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, chandigarh

Dr. Naveen associated with the Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Sector-26 Chandigarh at the apex level for 26 years and as SMO since 2013,and Incharge Hospital. Clinically he has treated more than 4 lakh patients with acute & multiple chronic diseases and attended various CME’s and workshops related to Homoeopathy. He has awarded by Sri Lankan Airlines in 2004 for saving my co passenger during an emergency situation while travelling to Colombo. He managed multiple medical camps from their inception to launch and post launch including pivotal in managing the region’s most reputed and established AYUSH Medical camps.

Kashinath G Metri

Assistant Professor

Department of Yoga Science

Central University of Rajasthan

Dr. Metri [BAMS (Ayurveda), MD (Yoga), and PhD (Yoga)] is an Ayurveda physician and a Yoga therapy consultant. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Yoga science, at the Central University of Rajasthan, India. He is an eminent researcher in the field of Yoga and Ayurveda. Dr. Kashinath’s contribution to the field of yoga therapy research is remarkable, his research work is predominantly on the clinical population, and on the application of yoga therapy in major health challenges like cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and mental health issues.

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Sanjay Munjal

Additional Professor

Department of Otolaryngology

PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr. Munjal is Ph.D, MSc in (Speech Hearing) from PGIMER and presently works as Additional Professor and In-charge, Speech and Hearing Unit, Department of Otolaryngology, PGIMER, Chandigarh. His main focus area are auditory electrophysiology, cochlear implants, tinnitus, auditory dys-synchrony, cleft palateand he specializes in audiology and speech language pathology. He has been awarded with Muktesh’s Award-Best paper in Speech Pathology, ISHACON; Dayalan Samuel’s SSV Award-Best paper in Audiology, ISHACON, 1996; Dr. N.R. Chaudhary Memorial Award-Best paper in Audiology, ISHACON, 2010; Dayalan Samuel SSV Award for best paper in Audiology. ISHACON, 2011; Young Scientist award at 9th Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and related Sciences held at Hyderabad from 26th-29th Nov 2013

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Babita Ghai

Professor

Department of Anaesthesia

PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr.Ghai is a Professor in Anesthesia, and a consultant in Pain clinic at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. With an experience of 21 years of post MD teaching and research experience, with keen interest in pain management, pain education & pain research and policy creation, she has special interest in the management of Chronic Pain with main focus on comprehensive pain management of the low back pain. Dr. Ghai has made significant contributionsin pain education and management field at international, South-East Asian, Asian, National,Institutional, undergraduate, postgraduate, nursing and community levels. She has been instrumental in establishing the pain clinic at her institute.

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Pramod Avti

Associate Professor

Department of Biophysics

PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr. Avti is currently working as Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.He was a research associate at Department of Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Divisions, Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Ecole Poly-technique and Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal. He was a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ecole Poly-technique, Montreal and also postdoctoral fellow at Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, New York, USA. His interests include biomedical imaging, Nano-medicine, tissue engineering, and integrative medicine.

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Raghavendra Rao

Director

CCRYN

New Delhi

Dr. Rao PhD, BNYS from Mangalore University presently works as Director, Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India. He has completed several research projects in the field of rheumatoid arthritis, pre-diabetes, diabetes, and CVD risk prevention using both yoga and naturopathy interventions at well-known Institutions. He is a member of the AYUSH research Portal, Govt of India, Hi has won several awards such as Sushila Thakur Prakriti Mandir prize in 2001 by APPICON and Manonmani Rudraiah award. He also won the ASCO Conquer cancer foundationmerit award in 2013 by American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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Suraj Khanal

Additional Professor

Department of Cardiology

PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr. Khanal received his DM (Cardiology) from AIIMS, and MD (Medicine) & MBBS from Gauhati University. He is presently works as Additional Professor, Cardiology, at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He is Life-Member of Cardiological Society of India and member of API. He specializes inpreventive cardiology, echocardiography and complex coronaryinterventions. His areas of interest arepercutaneous coronary intervention including complex cases and CTO’s, permanent pacemaker and AICD implantation, and Echocardiography: adult and congenital.

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Rahul Tyagi

Research Associate

Allergy and Immunology Unit

Department of Pediatrics

PGIMER

Dr. Tyagi had his graduate degree in the neurogenesis and cognitive neuroscience discipline. He has a strong inclination towards integrative health care, especially Yoga and its effect in the life style disorders. His ongoing post-doctoral research involves identification of novel genetic and epigentic targets causing primary immune deficiency, specifically common variable immune deficiency. He is largely interested in curation of genetic, epigenetic disorders based on curation strategies including geome editing, gene replacement as well as by ayurgenomic and integrative system based approaches. He is interested in conducting the research in quality defined set up which he inherited from his thesis environment. He is also a proponent of policy changes towards establishing integrative and traditional knowledge to treat modern health concerns.