Pathology

Department of Pathology

Pathology is a discipline which has its roots deeply implanted in the medical history that bridges clinical practice and basic science and therefore a foundation of sound clinical medicine. Pathology literally translates to the study of suffering; more fittingly, the term ‘Pathology’ is invoked to represent the study of disease. It involves the study of the patterns, investigation of the causes, underlying mechanisms and the effects of illness. It follows the process from its inception to its termination by investigating the changes produced.

It is therefore a vital component of medical education for all doctors, nurses and other health-care practitioners, greatly improving the skills and efficiency of all concerned. Pathology encompasses both the medical specialty, which utilities the organs, cells, tissues and body fluids to obtain clinically useful information, as well as the related scientific study of disease processes through examination. The faculty of the department of Pathology plays a major role in teaching and training of undergraduate students in Medicine of Phase-II and allied courses, as well as the postgraduate students aiming at producing specialist consultants of global standards.

In addition, the department also plays a pivotal role in providing competent laboratory services of the teaching hospital. This is essential for establishing the diagnosis of diseases, and monitoring the treatment of patients.

Regular, interactive, integrated academic programmers to foster academic excellence and quality in patient care are conducted by the department under the auspices of the institution. Research activities and their publications in indexed national and international scientific journals are being done on a regular basis in the department. Pathology includes various sub-sections like Histopathology, Cytopathology, Hematology and Clinical Pathology and Specialty sections include Immunohistochemistry and Immunocytochemistry

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Departmental Activities

UG teaching by conduction of tutorials, seminars, internal assessment tests, quiz competition and periodic competitive topic wise tests.
Faculties of the department encourage students to participate in various state/national-level CME & Conferences, Pathology quiz competitions etc.,
2nd State level KCIAPM Pathology Quiz competition at SSIMS, Davangere (2009).
State-level KCIAPM Pathology Quiz competition at JJMC, Davangere (2011).
State-level KCIAPM Pathology Quiz competition at ESI medical college, Bengaluru (2018).
Vinupriya- MBBS 2nd Year student presented a Poster on “Uterus Didelphys” at National UG Conference, SRM medical college Chennai (2016).
Yatish Hegde – MBBS 2nd year student presented a poster on “Cervical lymph node metastasis from unknown Primary” at National UG Conference, SRM medical college Chennai (2016).
Darshan – MBBS 2nd Year student presented a poster on “awareness of nosocomial infections among undergraduate medical students” at PHOENIX International Medical Students Conference, AJSIMS Mangaluru (2017).
Darshan Gouda – MBBS 2nd Year student presented an oral paper presentation on Awareness of Biomedical waste and its management among final MBBS students” at National Undergraduate Conference (COMA) held at Navodaya Medical College, Raichur (2018).
The Department of Pathology has organised various Scientific CME and Workshop programs in the institute such as Autopsy Pathology – Update, CME and Workshop (2013 Apheresis – CME and Workshop (2017) and Insight into Hemolytic and Coagulation Disorders – CME and Workshop (2018).
In all the above mentioned scientific sessions held nationwide, internationally renowned Resource persons were involved. In each of these programs there was a delegation of around 250 members in Karnataka and other neighboring states

On Going Research projects

Dr. Chitra Singh – Histopathological study of gall bladder lesions.
Dr. Mohd Idris – A comparative study of Erythrocyte sedimentation rate by conventional westergren method and automated ESR analyzer with clinical correlation.
Dr. Padmashree Solanki – Diagnostic utility of exfoliative cytology in bronchopulmonary lesions.
Dr. Roushni Kumari – A prospective study of etiological spectrum and clinicohematological profile of Pancytopenia.
Dr. Aishwarya Ganga – Histomorphological profile of endometrium in abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) with special reference to estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status: A 2 year study in tertiary care centre.
Dr. Preeti M – Role of endometrial biopsies in cases of infertility – A histomorphological study.
Dr. Sanobar Shamim Khan – Detection of Estrogen receptor (ER),Progesterone receptor (PR) and Her2-neu status by Immuno Histochemistry (IHC) along with correlation of histopathological grading of malignant neoplastic lesions of breast.

DISSERTATION TOPIC:

Clincopathological and Cyclooxygenase-2 immunohistochemical study in breast malignancy.

Guide – Dr Aanand A S

Postgraduate – Dr Nikitha M

Evaluation of haematological and biochemical parameters in patients with covid-19 infection – an observational study in the tertiary care centre.

Guide – Dr Kajal B P

Postgraduate – Dr Priyanka C

SHORT TERM RESEARCH TOPICS:

Clinicopathological study of anaemia in geriatric age group

Guide – Dr Madhavi K

Postgraduate – Dr Nikitha M

A Clinicohaematological and serological study of dengue cases in tertiary care centre.

Guide – Dr Prasanna N

Postgraduate – Dr Priyanka C

POSTER PRESENTATION:

Low grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm – a rare case report.

Guide – Dr Y Parsappa, Dr Sandeep Kumar, Dr Aanand A S

Postgraduate – Dr Nikitha M

Ameloblastoma – a rare case report.

Guide – Dr Shruti K, Dr Madhavi K, Dr Aanand A S

Postgraduate – Dr Priyanka C

Accolades

Received an offer to write a monograph on two published articles from Lambert Academic Publishers, Germany.
Cytodiagnosis of microfilaria in metastatic squamous cell carcinoma in cervical lymph node on FNAC" (Authors – Trupti.V.Katti, Vidhisha S Athanikar, Anand. A.S, Chandrakanth V. Rathod)
Tuberculous endometritis –"A worrying rescrudescence for infertility" ( Authors –Kajal.B.Punnyashetty, Anand A.S, Trupti V. Katti).
Accolades for securing “Best Exhibit" award in Navodaya Silver Jubilee MEGA EXPO – medical exhibition (2018).
Received best poster award on A Hemeto-Serological study of 556 Dengue suspected cases in Raichur District (Authors: Dr. Ramappa katti, Dr. Bommanahalli B P, Dr. Inderaj Itagi, Dr. Narasimha Murthy).