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MBBS, MD, DNB (Community Medicine)
Madhava Nagar, Manipal, Karnataka State. Pin 576104
India
Madhava Nagar, Kasturba Hospital Building
576104 Manipal
India
Research activity per year
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Non-communicable diseases, Maternal & child health including vaccine trials, Adolescent health, Environmental health, Health promotion
Deputy Director Research (Health Sciences), MAHE – from 2025 till date.
ICMR INTENT Institutional coordinator for KMC Manipal, MAHE -from 2024 till date.
Additional Professor – Community Medicine, KMC, Manipal from 2023 till date.
Associate Professor – Community Medicine, KMC, Manipal from 2012 to 2023.
Assistant Professor– Community Medicine, KMC, Manipal from 2008 to 2012.
Awards and recognition
1) Selected for @womenlifthealth’s #2025IndiaLeadershipJourney, mentorship & coaching support to expand the power & influence of women leaders in global health. #WomensLeadershipMatters https://bit.ly/2025IndiaCohort
2) Recognized as scientist in the Top 2 percentile of researchers in the world, by c-score in respective sub-field (general & internal medicine), August 2025, Sep 2024, Oct 2023
John P.A. Ioannidis, Top 2% Researcher List, as published in the data-update of the Updated Science-Wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators
3) Effectiveness of a Smartphone and Pedometer-Based Physical Activity Program on Objectively Measured Sedentary Time, Cardiometabolic Disease Risk, and Cognitive Functions Among Sedentary Office Workers – A Three-Arm Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial as Finalist at BMJ South Asia Awards- 2024-2025 under Digital Innovation category, organized by BMJ South Asia on 29th March 2025 held at New Delhi
4) Awarded Bishnupriya Devi Award (Best original article in IJDVL) at Dermacon held on Feb 24th-26th 2023 at Mumbai for the article, Jindal A, Rao C, Pai SB, Rao R. Utility of oral mucosa as a substrate for the serodiagnosis of pemphigus: A descriptive analysis. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2022; 88:156–61, published in IJDVL 2022
5) Awarded Bishnupriya Devi Award (Best original article & Best Award Article in IJDVL) at Dermacon held on 4th -6th Feb 2022 for the article, Arora S, Shetty VM, Rao CR, Pai SB, Rao R. Serration pattern analysis as a practical adjunct tool for categorization of subepidermal autoimmune blistering diseases. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2021;87:778-86, published in IJDVL 2021
6) Awarded 2nd prize in e-poster category for “Evaluation of microbial quality of household drinking water samples from coastal community of Southern Karnataka”, at the 48th Annual National Conference of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine – IAPSMCON 2021, held from 19th-21st March 2021, organized by PGIMER, Chandigarh
7) Awarded Excellence in Teaching for the years -2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 by Kasturba Medical College, Manipal at the College Day & Awards Ceremony
8) Awarded MAC ID Seed grant for the year 2019-2020 by Manipal McGill Centre for Infectious Diseases, KMC, Manipal.
9) Awarded scholarship to attend McGill summer course at Montreal, Canada during June 11th-20th 2018, by Manipal McGill Centre for Infectious Diseases, KMC, Manipal.
10) Awarded Distinguished Alumni Award 2017 by Kasturba Medical College, Manipal at the College Day & Awards Ceremony held on March 28th 2018 at KMC, Manipal.
11) Awarded Indian Council of Medical Research-Professor B.C. Srivastava Foundation Award for the year 2014 for the research work on “Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases” at the ICMR Annual Awards Presentation Ceremony held at New Delhi on October 11th 2017.
12) Awarded best oral paper for “Assessment of obstetric risk factors for pre-term birth in an antenatal cohort” presented at the 61st Annual National Conference of Indian Public Health Association and First State Conference of IPHA Rajasthan (IPHACON-2017) organized by Department of Community Medicine & Family Medicine AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan held on 24th – 26th February 2017 at AIIMS, Jodhpur
13) Awarded KACH Young Scientist Award by Karnataka Association of Community Health at the KACH SilverCon 2013- 25th Annual KACH Conference held on 30th November & 1st December 2013 at Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute at Bangalore.
14) Awarded partial scholarship by the ‘European Society of Hypertension’ for the paper, “A panel survey on high blood pressure prevalence among adults in coastal Karnataka of southern India”, to attend the 22nd European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection held in London, United Kingdom from April 26th-29th 2012
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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