Dr. S. Moied Ahmed has been awarded the Academic Staff Commonwealth Fellowship

ALIGARH, November 2: Dr. S. Moied Ahmed, Associate Professor and In-charge ICU, J N Medical College, AMU has been awarded the Academic Staff Commonwealth Fellowship for the year 2009-2010. He was posted in the Intensive Care Unit of, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds University Teaching Hospitals, one of the biggest hospitals in Europe.

Dr. Ahmed qualified the Good Clinical Practice module to pursue his research project entitled “Lung Protective Strategies in Mechanically Ventilated Patients”, in which he used High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in ARDS patients. His research project was accepted by the European Society of Critical Care Congress at Barcelona. He has also been the sub-investigator of four International trials ‘Phoenix trial in Sepsis’, ‘OSCAR trial in ARDS patients’, and ‘Eurotherm Trial in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients’.

Dr. Moied undertook training in ultrasound guided central venous access, radial artery access and the basics of echocardiography and its role in patient management subsequently doing an audit on auxiliary venous access. He also attended the International Conference on Critical Care at Manchester, Annual Spring Meeting of Intensive Care Society at Leeds, Workshops on Total Intravenous Anaesthesia at Leicester, Focused Echocardiography in Emergency Life Support at Birmingham, Management of Difficult Airways at Huddersfield, Advanced Mechanical Ventilation at Leeds, 3 day Regional Anaesthesia Course at Leeds, Symposiums on Acute Lung Injury and Acute Kidney Injury at Royal College of Anaesthetics, London, and Cather Related Sepsis at Chester.

Dr. Moied said that the Commonwealth Fellowship has been of great help in improving his clinical acumen, updating his knowledge and practicing the protocol based management as per international guidelines. He learnt to take a holistic approach while managing a critically ill patient. Recognizing his knowledge and experience the General Medical Council in UK has given him full registration for license to practice in UK.

The commonwealth is doing an excellent job by sponsoring people from developing countries with an intension to upgrade the standard of the recipient in respective field. The fellowship has not only been his personal gain but beneficial to the University as well. The University is all set to open a new ICU. It would be a great achievement if he is able to implement at least 50% of what he learnt in Leeds. The faculties of LGI have assured him to liaison with his department to develop the ICU and regional anaesthesia course. The FEEL course in Birmingham is also willing to coordinate with the department and conduct the course at Aligarh.