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


Indian Journal of Microbiology Research

April 2022Indian Journal of Microbiology Research 9(1):55-61

First Author

National

Index Copernicus, Google Scholar







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


Oral Presentation

CME on "Emerging Viral Infections" 

CME

Jubilee medical college and Research Foundation, Thrissur

September, 2019.


Infective endocarditis: An unusual presentation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae


Poster

CME on "Recent Advances in Clinical Microbiology" 

CME

Govt. Medical College, Ernakulam


August, 2019



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