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Profile Dr. ANURADHA SHANKAR Tel : +91 80 25467160
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NAME : Dr. Anuradha Shankar
AGE : 43 years
DATE OF BIRTH : 07-08-1964
NATIONALITY : Indian
SEX : Female
RELIGION ; Christian
MARITAL STATUS : Married, two children
LANGUAGES KNOWN : English, Telugu, Kanada, Hindi and Tamil
PERMANENT ADDRESS : Flat No: 001, Villa Maria Apartments,
No. 24, Wheeler Road Extension, St.ThomasTown, Bangalore- 560 084., INDIA.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION : SSC (10th standard)
SSLC (Intermediate)
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc)
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery ( M B B S )
WORK EXPERIENCE : Duty Doctor in REPUBLIC Nursing Home,
Richmond Road, Bangalore in 1990-1991
Director in SWAMY POLYCLINIC & DIAGONISTIC CENTRE, Bangalore in 1992 – 2001
Clinical Tutor in medicine at Dr. Ambedakar Medical College & Hospital, Bangalore in 2002-2003
Medical Officer in Palliative care Dept. & Medicine Dept Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bangalore in 2003-2004. We as a team of one doctor, two nurses and a pastor visit these palliative patient’s homes and treat them at their homes and not only meet the needs of the patients but overall care for the entire family. Our visit used to give the family lot of comfort & support.
Volunteered Medical officer at Gateway International Free clinic, Bangalore in 2004-2005 serving the poor patients in the clinic & and attending medical camps. Teaching Environmental Science & bible studies to orphan children of VII & VIII grades students.
Volunteered Medical officer at KSM (Karnataka Subhasamachar Mandali) Health Centre, Narayanpura, Bangalore in 2004 - 2005. serving poor patients treating them through mobile clinic visiting different villages in that area every day. Visiting prison once in 15 days and treating the prisoners
And giving the free medicines and also praying with them for the spiritual & emotional support.
Presently working as Assistant Professor teaching Medical Human Physiology at AMERI (American Medical Education Resource Institute) for Pre-Clinical students, syllabus [ Physiology by Guyton & Hall Text Book followed ] based on American standards for students to appear for USMLE qualifying exams. Teaching since July 2006 to till date in Bangalore India.
Also teaching Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology using interactive CD’s and LCD slides for Pre-Med students. Syllabus based on American standards for students of Pre-Medical program of Medical education.
Also teaching physiology to Board Review students for them to write USMLE qualifying exams.
I am teaching Pathology & Medical Terminology to pre clinical students.
I also taught Medical Ethics & Medical Psychology for Pre-Medical students.
HOBBIES : Gardening, Sports, Cooking, Traveling, and Trekking.
MY EXPERIENCES
1. Palliative Care Experiences (Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bangalore)
When I was working in palliative care dealing with all the terminally ill cancer patients it was real challenging job, which God had placed in my hands. Every day we as a team visit the patients homes in taking care of them in pain management, treating the specific needs like vomiting, constipation, bed sores treatment, dressing the open wounds, catheterizations male and female patients and training the family to take care of the patients and to cope with the situation and to accept the reality. To be apart of dying patients in treating them medically, praying, sharing the gospel, counseling them and to bring back the hope which they had lost and to make them smile was the greatest opportunity God had given me.
Counseling not only the patients but to the entire family who is going through tremendous trauma. Weekly once we used to visit the patients and their family, they used to wait for our visit. Even in their weak state they offer the hospitality, which I can never forget.
2. Medicine Dept. Experiences (Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bangalore)
In the night duties attended all the medical emergencies and did intubations to the patients, managed heart attack cases, treated the patients who consumed poisons, snakebite cases and Malaria and various infectious cases and various other medical cases.
3. K.S.M Health Centre Experiences
Worked in this clinic as a medical officer. Every day we go to the villages where there are no medical facilities available. We go to these villages in ambulance as a team of doctor, nurse and evangelist. Our ambulance will be fully equipped with all necessary medicines and our service to the people is free but the patients only pays for the medicines.
Here also we come across all kinds of patients who are emotionally, socio economically weaker section who are going through lot of problems and who cannot support themselves even to go to the nearest health centres. Here also we treat the patients medically with various dieses like upper respiratory infections, lower respiratory infections, skin diseases, ENT cases, ophthalmic cases, diabetic and hypertensive cases. We see ante natal and neonatal cases. We give vaccinations like DPT, oral polio, and Hepatitis B injections to the children. We also counsel the patients who are going through the psychological and emotional and economical problems. We also pray for them. Whichever villages we are going, the patients wait for our weekly visits.
4. GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL FREE CLINIC Experiences
Worked in this clinic as a medical officer. I used to treat the poor people who cannot afford medical expenses and also who cannot buy medicines. I was giving free consultation and the organization used to give fee medicines for the patients.
I also taught the orphanage children in this organization in the subjects like environmental sciences and scripture.
Here also we come across all kinds of patients who are emotionally, socio economically weaker section who are going through lot of problems and who cannot support themselves even to go to the nearest health centres. Here also we treat the patients medically with various dieses like upper respiratory infections, lower respiratory infections, skin diseases, ENT cases, ophthalmic cases, diabetic and hypertensive cases. We see ante natal and neonatal cases. We give vaccinations like DPT, oral polio, and Hepatitis B injections to the children.
We also counsel the patients who are going through the psychological and emotional and economical problems. We also pray for them.
We use to have medical camps once in a month and we go as a team of doctors and nurses in different areas where medical facilities are lacking
5. Prison experiences
In this KSM health center we also go to the prisons to treat and counsel the prisoners. The amount of psychological trauma they go through is unexplainable. We spend time with them and give them the hope that they had lost. We encourage them in the Lord because only God can give them the strength, which they want. After all the treatment prisoners will ask us to pray for them and they tell us that our visit makes them feel so happy.
6. American Medical Educational Research Institute Experiences
I am teaching for the Pre-Clinical students and Pre-Med students & Board Review students the Physiology, Pathology & Medical Terminology following books of American standards and preparing them to write USMLE qualifying exams and students are very very happy with my teaching abilities. I also taught Essentials of human Anatomy & Physiology to Pre-Med Students. With this God given capacity I will be able to teach other subjects like Medical ethics, Epidemiology, Behavioral sciences, Physical diagnosis, & Medical Psychology.
Achievements in Palliative care dept.:
Presented a paper about palliative care in CMAI 37th Biennial Conference in Raipur Chattisgarah ( India )
Testimony of Baptist Hospital Hospice and Home care is attached.
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March 21, 2004
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/ Baptist hospital & hospice take Christ to dying in India
By Joshua Newton
Baptist Press
BANGALORE, India (BP)—Little Williams always had longed for a blue toy car to play with. But his parents had no money to buy one.
Dr. Anuradha says she considers herself blessed for delivering the toy to the boy hours before he died.
“Williams had a twinkle in the eye before he passed away,” said Anuradha, who heads the hospice and home care team of Bangalore Baptist Hospital in India. (Many residents in this culture are known by only one name.)
“I’ll never forget that 13-year-old cancer patient,” said Anuradha. “I’m sure he had the same feelings about us too.”
Many of the staff members at the Baptist hospital today remember similar instances as they have ministered to hundreds of people dying in pain. /
TOUCHING THE TERMINALLY ILL Dr. Anuradha (left) of the hospice and home care team of India’s Bangalore Baptist Hospital discusses their home visits with a colleague. (BP photo by Joshua Newton)
“I’ve seen many facing death with cheer after they get inspired by the life of Jesus Christ.”
M.P. George, chief chaplain for Bangalore Baptist Hospital
When the Indian Ministry of Health invited Southern Baptists in 1973 to offer medical service to the rural poor in India, some enthusiastic Baptists here managed to find an old chicken coop to start the clinic on the outskirts of Bangalore in India’s Karnataka state.
Karnataka encompasses nearly 55 million people, most of them in 33,000 villages. Spanning 300 people groups, the majority of the population worships the countless gods of Hinduism; only 1.9 percent claim Christianity, in any form, as their religion.
The 80-bed venture has now grown into a busy but calm hospital with a 150-bed acute care facility. Adding its modest inpatient and outpatient facilities, the hospital cares for more than 80,000 patients annually.
Sharing the Christian message has been a priority of the hospital throughout its three decades, resulting in 900 churches across the state over the years. Experts from the Christian Medical College in Tamil Nadu guide the hospital in management and services. Dr. Santosh Benjamin, the hospital’s director and chief executive officer, said care for the underprivileged will continue to be the driving force of the institution.
“The challenge we face is to remain competitive and remain spiritually relevant to present daily health needs,” Benjamin said. Currently, the Baptist hospital is hoping to raise funds for intensive care units, a postpartum recovery facility and a central sterile supply department.
“Our hospice and home care team is emphasizing improving the quality of life and adding life to days,” Benjamin noted.
Making house calls
A team consisting of a doctor, two nurses, a social worker and a chaplain visits homes in the suburbs of Bangalore to look after patients facing life-limiting illnesses such as cancer and AIDS.
“Such patients prefer to be at home instead of being in a hospital,” the doctor said. “Our home care team strives to make this possible by providing palliative care at home.”
Anuradha’s team visits 25 homes every week from Monday through Friday. They spend two hours in each home, providing free medicines as well as answering questions and giving counsel to relatives and patients themselves about the stage of a particular disease.
“Many of them don’t know what to do about a patient who vomits or shows symptoms of pain,” Anuradha said. “So we plan ahead the method and medication for each family. (The) chaplain either does counseling or teaches them to pray.”
The hospital began its hospice and home care service in 1995 and, after two years, the team started its house visits. Today, the outreach is funded by interest earned from a significant donor gift.
“Feedback is tremendous,” said M.P. George, the chief Baptist chaplain and coordinator of the hospice and home team, who has been at the hospital for 30 years. “Some people readily accept the message of Jesus when we impress them that death does not mean defeat,” he said. “We fill those minds with courage and hope. I’ve seen many facing death with cheer after they get inspired by the life of Jesus Christ.”
Many families have turned to Christ after their service for the dying, George recounted. “Isn’t this what Jesus wanted us to do?” he added.
“A fresh lease of hope”
“Fear and confusion reign the minds of the dying,” said Nityanand, a Baptist pastor with the home care team. “To them we show the beauty of Jesus’ message. Then they become ready to build relationship with God. Once they believe, they get a fresh lease of hope.”
While some Christian mission groups have been threatened by Hindu militants, the Baptist home care team has so far been welcomed wherever they visit. But the chaplains are well aware that the situation may change at any time.
“In Jesus we walk and we have no fears,” Nityanand said. “We believe in the beauty of our mission.”
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