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President |
Dr. V. Prakash
Director
Central Food Technological Research Institute &
President
Nutrition Society of India
Mysore - 570 020 |
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Vice-Presidents |
Dr. G. N. V. Brahmam
Deputy Director (Sr.Gr.) & Head, Division of Field Studies
National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad
Prof. S. V. Rana
Additional Professor, Dept. of Superspeciality of Gastroenterology,
PGIMER, Chandigarh |
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Secretary |
Dr. Priti V Taneja
Professor & Head, Dept. of Physiology
MGM Medical College, Indore |
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Joint Secretary |
Dr. K. Madhavan Nair
Deputy Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
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Treasurer |
Dr. M. Raghunath
Deputy Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
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Ex-Officio |
Dr. B. Sesikeran
Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
Executive Committee Members
1. Dr.G. Bhanuprakash Reddy, Hyderabad
2. Dr. R. Hemalatha, Hyderabad
3. Prof. Rajoo Singh Chhina, Ludhiana
4. Dr. S.K.Mann, Ludhiana
5. Prof. G. Subbulakshmi, Mumbai
6. Dr. K. Sheela, Meghalaya
7. Dr. S. Rajagopalan, Chennai
8. Dr. Vandana Bharathi, Indore
9. Mrs. Sunita Malhotra, Chandigarh
10. Dr. Vidyadhar Kawalkar, Bhopal
11. Dr. Prema Ramachandran, New Delhi
12. Dr. Anura Kurpad, Bangalore
13. Dr. A.N. Radha, Nagpur
2003 – 2004 Activities
1.
The XXXVI Annual Meetings of the Society were held during 5-6 November
2004 at Mysore and were jointly organized by the University of Mysore,
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Central Food Technological Research
Institute (CFTRI) and Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), Mysore. The
inaugural session and all scientific sessions were held at CFTRI while the
concluding session was conducted at University of Mysore, Mysore. About 1500
delegates and invitees attended the meeting.
2.
Prof. Mark L. Wahlqvist, President, IUNS and Director, Asia Pacific
Health and Nutrition Centre, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia
inaugurated the annual meetings of the Society. Dr. V. Prakash, Director, CFTRI
delivered the keynote address. Dr. Kamala Krishnaswamy, President of the
Society presided over the function.
3.
Two symposia on “Critical determinants of pregnancy outcome” and
“Bridging the nutrition gap through value addition” were organised during the
meetings.
4.
Prof. Mark L. Wahlqvist, President,
IUNS and Director, Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre, Monash Asia
Institute, Monash University, Australia regarded as Australia’s most eminent
nutritionist delivered the twentyeighth Gopalan Oration on “The New Nutrition
Science: Solutions for Development”.
5.
Dr. Kamala Krishnaswamy, Former Director, NIN, ICMR Emeritus Medical
Scientist, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad delivered the Sixteenth
Srikantia Memorial Lecture on “Turmeric – the salt of the orient is the spice of
life”.
6.
A total of 12 papers (Community and Experimental Nutrition), were
presented in the Awards Session.
FORTHCOMING
XXXVII ANNUAL
MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
The forthcoming XXXVII Annual Meetings of the
Society are scheduled to be held during 18th and 19th
November 2005 at National Institute of Nutrition,
Hyderabad.
The theme of the conference and the 2 symposia
for the conference are as follows:
Theme: Good Technology – Better Delivery – Best Nutrition
Symposiums
I. Effective nutrition intervention strategies
- Role of the stake holders
II. Biotechnology for better nutrition
Dr. Shanti Ghosh, Paediatric
Nutritionist has kindly consented to deliver the XXIX Gopalan Oration for this
year annual conference and Subhadra Seshadri, Retd. Prof.
Dept. of Food & Nutrition, Faculty of Home Science, M.S. University of Bardoa
has kindly consented to deliver the
Srikantia Memorial Lecture for this years annual conference.
[Annual Report, 2004]
