This is a postgraduate degree in
Gynecology, and is the equivalent of being Board
Certified. Did further training in IVF at King's College
Hospital, London, on a R D Sethna Scholarship
Educational Distinctions, Honours, Prizes
Secured a Rank in the Merit List in the Secondary
School Certificate Examination in Maharashtra State, 1976.
Awarded a National Scholarship from the Ministry
of Educational and Social Welfare, Govt of India, 1977
Secured a Rank in the Merit List in the Higher
Secondary Certificate Examination in Maharashtra, 1978.
Awarded Open Merit Scholarship by the Maharashtra
Board for 1976, 1977, 1978.
Secured Distinction in Human Anatomy in First
M.B.,B.S. Exam, Bombay University, 1979.
Secured Distinction in Community Medicine
in Second M.B.,B.S. Exam, Bombay University, 1981.
Won Second Prize in the Leprosy Essay
Competition in Bombay, organised by the Ackworth Leprosy Society,
1982.
Won the Awabai Ratanshaw Dadabhoy Scholarship
for standing first in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the College
Competitive Examination, 1982.
Awarded the Dr Menino de Souza & Medical
Welfare Trust Prize for the Best All-round Student of Seth G.S.
Medical College, 1983.
Awarded the Ramabai Nowrungay Travelling
Fellowship by the Bombay University in 1989, for further specialised
training abroad in Gynecology.
Was a fellow at the IVF Dept of the King's
College Hospital, London, UK
Publications
The effect of calcium anatagonists on uterine
contractions. The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India. Vol 38,
pp 15-17. 1988.
New technic for managing second trimester intrauterine
fetal death. International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Second trimester abortion with ethacridine
lactate plus carboprost- which is the best time to administer
the carboprost? Advances in Contraception.
A comparison of two prostaglandin analogues
in combination with ethacridine lactate for second trimester abortion.
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India.
Ethacridine lactate plus sulprostone for second
trimester abortions- an intrauterine pressure monitoring study.
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India.
Sperm Cryobanking for Therapeutic Insemination
by Donor. Bombay Hospital Journal, 32: 76-79, 1990.
Office Techniques for Sperm Processing to
Enhance Male Fertility. Bombay Hospital Journal. Aug 1990.
Simplifying Assisted Conception Techniques
to make them Universally available - a view from India. Accepted for publication. Human Reproduction. Vol 7, N 2 (
1992) pp 49-50.
Invited as a Guest Editor to edit Special Issue
on Infertility of the Bombay Hospital Journal. April 1993.
A New Technique to End Male Infertility. Invited article. Biomed. Jul-Aug 1996.pp 68-69.
Sperm Cryopreservation for Sperm Banking. Invited to author this Chapter in the book, Infertility Update,
published by the Federation of Obstetric and Gynecologic Societies
of India, Dec 1994.
Making IVF Affordable. Medicine Digest. October 1993. pp Published in the UK.
How the Family Physician can Help the Infertile
Couple. Integrral Physician's Digest. April-May 1994. pp 29-35.
Active Management of Infertility. Bombay Hospital Journal. Vol 35 Number 2. April 1993. pp 11-12.
Ultrasound guided procedures for treating infertility.
Bombay Hospital Journal.
Vol 35 Number 2. April 1993. pp 67-70.
How the GP can help the infertile couple. Bombay Hospital Journal.
Vol 35 Number 2. April 1993. pp 164-165.
Retrieval of epididymal sperm. Fertil Steril (1996 Feb) 65(2):448
Microinjection using Testicular Sperm - A new
Treatment Option for treating Azoospermic men. Indian Journal of Urology. ( Sept 1997) 14: 45-47.
Correlation between testicular histology and
outcome after intracytoplasmic sperm injection using testicular
spermatozoa Hum Reprod (1996 Nov) 11(11):2567
Preconceptional sex selection. CMAJ. 2002 Feb 5;166(3):301.
PGD and sex selection. Hum Reprod. 2002 Feb;17(2):517.
Preimplantation sex selection for family balancing
in India. Hum Reprod. 2002 Jan;17(1):11-2.
Putting new drugs to good use. Hum Reprod. 1999 Feb;14(2):572.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for gender
selection for family balancing - a view from India Reproductive BioMedicine Online 2