The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presented Dr. BC Roy National Awards for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (July 1, 2016) on the occasion of Doctors’ Day
Mumbai 1st July 2016: On the occasion of Doctors Day 2016, The Honorable President of India, Shri. Pranab Mukherjee presented Dr. BC Roy National Award to twenty-five doctors practicing various discipline across the country for their professional achievements at a function held at the Rastrapati Bhavan today (July 1, 2016).
Prof. Dr. C.V. Harinarayan, Director - Diabetes & Endocrinology, Sakra World Hospital, Bangalore. was one of the recipients of this prestigious award.
B.C.ROY award is given annually by the Medical Council of India for doctors of highest accomplishments in the medical field. The B.C.Roy award for the year 2009 is given to Prof.Dr.C.V.Harinarayan, presently working as Director, Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Thyroid and Osteoporosis Disorders, Sakra World Hospitals, Bangalore for his accomplishments in the field of endocrinology and metabolic bone diseases. His work on metabolic bone diseases is quoted in many textbooks of medicine.
From his studies he showed that low vitamin D status of Indian population is the cause of bone disease in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. It is hard to believe that in a sun drenched country like India we have vitamin D deficiency. Later this fact was confirmed by many scientific workers across the country. His land mark population study from south India by his group is the FIRST and ONLY study till date to document the low dietary calcium intake and low vitamin D status in agricultural in laborers residing in villages. Subsequently his group documented that by ampoule model of previtamin D synthesis and showed that we as Indians can synthesize enough vitamin D on exposure to sunlight from 11 am to 2 pm, by exposing 10 to 15% of body surface area for 15 to 30 minutes. His work was the first to show that renal tubular damage is the major cause of metabolic bone diseases in patients with flurosis (Ranked top 10 publications - year 2006 by Internet). The work with BARC, Mumbai helped to indigenously develop intact IRMA radioimmunoassay for parathyroid hormone in India (make in India concept). With all this in background his group developed the “Clinical Practice Guidelines on management of Postmenopausal osteoporosis (2012-13) – Executive summary and Recommendations” for Indian Menopause society. He was instrumental in developing the Department of Endocrinology, SVIMS, Tirupati, (for nearly two decades) with a good dedicated endocrine laboratory infrastructure.
LIST OF AWARDEES
Year 2008
S. No. Name of Awardees
1. Dr. Mammen Chandy
2. Prof. Rajeshwar Dayal
3. Dr. Rohit V. Bhatt
4. Dr. Neelam Mohan
5. Prof. Mohan Kameswaran
6. Dr. Harsha Jauhari
7. Dr. Gopal H. Badlani
8. Dr. Yash Gulati
Year 2009
1. Dr. KH Sancheti
2. Dr. Atul Kumar
3. Dr. Renu Saxena
4. Dr. Kanan A. Yelikar
5. Dr. A.K. Kriplani
6. Dr. G.V. Rao
7. Dr. H.S. Bhanushali
8. Dr. Moti Lal Singh
9. Dr. C.N. Purandare
10. Dr. C.V. Hari Narayan
Year 2010
1. Dr. Nikhil C. Munshi
2. Dr. Tejinder Singh
3. Prof. O.P. Kalra
4. Dr. Amrinder Jit Kanwar
5. Dr. Subash Gupta
6. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
7. Dr. Glory Alexander