Dr. Rugma R
Assistant Professor
MBBS, MD Microbiology
Area of Interest
- Antimicrobial stewardship & Hospital infection control
- Virology- Dengue & Mycology
- Research and Teaching
Additional Responsibilities
- Institutional antimicrobial stewardship program committee - Co convener
- Nodal Officer (Department of Microbiology) for Measles Rubella Surveillance Program
- Quality Manager of Molecular Biology Laboratory
Achievements, Memberships, Awards
- Certificate Program on Hospital Infection Control (CPHIC) -6 months course conducted by Sankara Nethralaya Unit of Medical Research Foundation Chennai
- Training on "Quality Management Systems and Internal Audits in medical laboratories as per ISO 15189:2012”
- Training/observership in molecular/virology laboratory at Rajeev Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram to learn PCR under the guidance of Dr
- Sreekumar E, Scientist .F
- Delegate in CME- 5th National Workshop on Hospital Infection Control, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 2022
- 1st International congress on infectious diseases and clinical pharmacy- ID CONGRESS 2023 at Believers Convention centre, Thiruvalla
- 9th Triennial conference (TRICON 2023) by ACM
- Delegate in CME “Clinical Microbiology: Diagnostic Approach to Infectious Disease Syndromes”(CMID 2020) at Sree Chithre Tirunal Institute For Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram on February 29 th,2020
- Deligate in CME & Workshop on “Infection control and antimicrobial stewardship” at Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva on 16-18th January 2020
- Delegate in CME “Emerging Viral Infections” at Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur on September 28th, 2019.
- Delegate in CME “Recent Advances in Clinical Microbiology” at Govt. Medical College, Ernakulam on August 4th, 2019
- Delegate in “4th Hands-On Workshop in Viral Diagnostics” held at
Christian Medical College, Vellore on 7th-10th January 2019.
- Delegate in CME “Emerging Zoonosis- Bridging the gap in Research” held at 3rd KUHS National Conference on Postgraduate Medical Research, Thricon 18 at Govt. Medical College, Thrissur on 24th & 25th October 2018.
Publications
Title |
Journal |
Publication detail (Year, Volume, Page nos etc ) |
Authorship 1st/2nd /other |
State/National/International/Others |
Indexed in |
Molecular detection of dengue virus serotypes prevalent in central Kerala and its correlation with disease severity
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Indian Journal of Microbiology Research |
April 2022Indian Journal of Microbiology Research 9(1):55-61 |
First Author |
National |
Index Copernicus, Google Scholar |
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Presentations
Topic |
Guest lecture/ Oral/Poster/ Convenor of Workshop |
Event |
Conference/ CME/ Workshop |
Venue |
Date |
Level |
Clinical and microbiological profile of candidemia from a tertiary care centre
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Oral Presentation |
CME on "Emerging Viral Infections" |
CME |
Jubilee medical college and Research Foundation, Thrissur |
September, 2019. |
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Infective endocarditis: An unusual presentation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae
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Poster |
CME on "Recent Advances in Clinical Microbiology" |
CME |
Govt. Medical College, Ernakulam
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August, 2019
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Research Projects
Project |
Completed/ Ongoing |
Funded Y/N |
Collaborated Y/N |
Published Y/N |
Antimicrobial susceptibility profile of community acquired uropathogenic Escherichia coli across India- A multicentric study promoting diagnostic stewardship in the management of UTI |
Completed |
No |
Yes |
No |