Ashna Ajimsha

Assistant Professor

MBBS, MD, DNB, MNAMS

Member-AMSP committee, Sree Gokulam Medical College & Research Foundation
Deputy lab director -PCR lab, Sree Gokulam Medical College & Research Foundation

Achievements- 1^st rank in MD Microbiology exam 2022, conducted by Kerala University of Health Sciences.

Memberships- Member of The National Academy of Medical Sciences- 20^th July 2025

Certifications:

Basic Course in Biomedical Research - September – December 2019
Training Programme at Laboratory Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics Division,Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala-August 23^rd, 2021 – September 24^th, 2021
6^th Advanced National Workshop on Hospital Infection Control, JIPMER, Puducherry - August 23^rd-27^th, 2022
Quality Management Systems and Internal Audit in Medical Laboratories as per ISO 15189: 2012 - October 26^th -29^th, 2022
Basic Certificate Course on Antimicrobial Stewardship - CAHO - May 29^th, 2023
AMR data management (WHONET) and hands on training workshop on determination of Minimum inhibitory concentration organised by NCDC and Government medical college, Thiruvanathapuram - 18^th-19^th December, 2023
Certificate program on hospital infection control-Shankara Nethralaya - 1^st July-31^st December 2023
Basic course in medical education June 11^th-13^th 2024
Quality Management Systems and Internal Audit in Medical Laboratories as per ISO 15189: 2022 September 3^rd and 4^th, 2024

Title	Journal	Publication detail (Year, Volume, Page nos etc )	Authorship 1st/2nd /other	State/National/International/Others	Indexed in
1)Sepsis due to Roseomonas gilardii in an elderly female	Kerala medical journal-Journal of Indian medical association,Kerala state branch	Volume 13, issue 3, September 14,2020, pages 116-118	1^st	State	-
2)A fatal case of Listeria monocytogenes meningitis and sepsis in an immunocompromised female	Journal of the Academy of Clinical Microbiologists	Volume 22, issue 2, April 5,2021, pages 88-91	1^st	National	EBSCO, Google scholar
3)Evaluation of rapid antigen test against RT-PCR for the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus-2 in a tertiary care centre in South Kerala	Journal of the Academy of Clinical Microbiologists	Volume 24, issue 1, published on July 11,2022, pages 16-20	1^st	National	EBSCO, Google scholar
4) Inducible Clindamycin Resistance and its Molecular Characterisation among Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from A Tertiary Care Centre in South Kerala	Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology	Volume 19, issue 2, published on May 21, 2025, pages 1145-1153	1^st	International	Scopus, DOAJ, Embase, Index Copernicus
Atypical but Accountable: Prevalence of Mycoplasma Pneumoniae in Community- Acquired Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in South Kerala.	Journal of Contemporary Clinical Practice	Volume 11, issue 8, published on August 25, 2025, pages 775-780	1^st	National	Embase, EBSCO, ProQuest, Index Copernicus

Topic	Guest lecture/ Oral/Poster/ Convenor of Workshop	Event	Conference/ CME/ Workshop	Venue	Date	Level
Sepsis due to Roseomonas gilardii in an Elderly Female	Poster Presentation	Clinicomicrocon 2019	CME	Sree Gokulam Medical College and Research Foundation, Venjaramoodu	September 27^th, 2019.	State
Evaluation of Rapid Antigen Test against RT-PCR for the diagnosis of SARS-COV 2 in a tertiary care centre in South Kerala	Oral Presentation	Clinicomycology Update	CME	SRM Institute of Higher Education & Research	October, 27^th, 2021	National

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