Details of Chief Guest and Guest of Honour for International Women’s Day 2021

Chief Guest

Dr. Shalini Nalwad

Chairperson ICATT Foundation

Dr. Shalini Nalwad graduated from Mysore University and obtained her Fellowship in Anaesthesia from the College of Anaesthetist, Ireland. She also has a Membership from the Royal College of Anaesthetist, UK. She secured the prestigious medical training programme of The Northern Ireland, Deanery. During her tenure as a trainee in a medical rotation, she led the Cardiac Arrest Team, the Mobile Cardiac ICU and has lysed the patients in the community, and successfully resuscitated cardiac arrests in the community.

She has gained extensive experience working in the Tertiary Intensive Care Unit in Belfast for three years which mainly deals with trauma. She is associated with Europe’s leading Air ambulance company and has transferred Level 2 to Level 3 patients across the world. She was able to retrieve patients from 5 countries, 2 continents in 72 hours and has undeterringly airlifted patients from Libya in midst of the turmoil. She was also part of the Panel at the 6th Annual Conference of Indian College of Anaesthesiologists in collaboration with University of Minnesota, USA, Nov 2014.

Dr. Nalwad is an ECMO specialist from Leicester Glenfield Hospital UK, (June 2015) and will be launching the first ever Airborne ECMO in India. Realising the gaps in Indian medical system she, along with others have associated to form ICATT, which can help make the emergency medical transfer a reality in India and also make it affordable to the needy.

Guest of Honor

Mrs. Nandini Murthy

Nutritionist and Wellness Consultant

Mrs. Nandini Murthy is a leading consultant Nutritionist with a long-standing career in VLCC in Hospitals and Clinics in Bangalore and Mysore. She was into teaching, and some of her nutrition-related articles have been published in leading newspapers. With an experience of more than 20 years, she realized that many patients with diabetes from all walks of life including the highly educated are not entirely aware of diabetes.

She has been spreading awareness by delivering talks on obesity and wellness. She offers therapeutic counseling for patients such as corporate professionals and school children. She worked as a Patient educator in her earlier stint.  Mrs. Murthy is certified and trained in Acupressure, Acutouch, Magnetic therapy, Auricular therapy, Mudras, Meditation and Yoga.

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