Telemedicine Expertise

  1. Head, Apollo Telemedicine Network Foundation.
  2. Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, (IIT Madras) since 2005 & School of Electronics and Telecommunications Anna University since 2000. Only medical doctor on the faculty.
  3. Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon to the Armed Forces Medical Services.
  4. Member National Task Force on Telemedicine.
  5. Founder Member and Joint Treasurer, Telemedicine Society of India.  
  6. Member Health Care Subcommittee Confederation of Indian Industry Southern Region.
  7. First Indian based doctor to join online postgraduate course on Medical Informatics conducted by the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.
  8. Chief Guest Address, National Symposium on “Instronics 2006” RMK Engineering College, Chennai, 2006.
  9. Invited Guest Lecture, “Telehealth in Clinical Practice ” & Live Demo & Invited Guest Lecture, “Management of Head Injuries” Apollo KH Hospital, Ranipet, 19th Feb 2006.
  10. Invited Guest Lecture, “Telehealth in the Indian Context- An overview” & Live Demo, FORUM, 26th February 2006.
  11. Chief Guest Address- Workshop on Ergonomics in Healthcare held at Chennai on 15th February 2006, Chennai Division, Southern Railway.
  12. Invited Guest Lecture,   “Business Aspects of Telemedicine” Regional workshop organized by ITCOT 30th January, 2006.
  13. Invited guest Lecture “Health Care Management using Telehealth”: National Conference on Geomatics for Infrastructure Development. Jan 4-6 2006. Chennai.
  14. Keynote Address- ‘Telehealth- An Overview’ at the inauguration of KG- Apollo Telemedicine Unit at K.G Hospital, Coimbatore. October 2005
  15. Indian Medical Association Vaniyambadi Branch, Telelecture on “ Medical Sciences in  2010- Peep into the future” 19th Sep 2005, from Chennai
  16. “Telemedicine in Neurosciences” Invited guest lecture at main session: 13th World Congress of neurological Surgery, Marrakech, Morocco. 24th June  2005.
  17. Telemedicine in Neurosciences &  Linac based Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations- An analysis of 240 cases. Guest lectures at the 23th Spring annual Meeting of the Korean Neurosurgical Society held in Cheju Island, South Korea  on Apr 14-16, 2005.
  18. Attitudes of  1000 families in two villages in Tamilnadu, towards using  Wireless Internet kiosks for telehealthcare  K. Ganapathy, Sasi Rekha , Varadarajan V:   paper  presented at the International Telemedicine Conference India – Bangalore March 17-19, 2005.
  19. E Health bridging the gap :  Invited lecture at the International Telemedicine Conference India – Bangalore March 17-19, 2005
  20. Social issues in telemedicine: presented at the International Telemedicine Conference India – Bangalore March 17-19, 2005
  21. Invited guest speaker at First International Conference of Telemedicine in India (Telemed 2000 April 2000) Special lecture on ‘A Clinicians perspective of Telemedicine and Strategies for Introducing Telemedicine in India’.
  22. Lecture on Telemedicine at the Royal Army Hospital Jordan October 2000
  23. Presentations on telemedicine to the Minister for Health Baghdad as member of the Govt of India approved FICCI delegation October 2000
  24. Invited guest speaker (only one from Asia), Telemedicine in India at the First International conference on Arab Telemedicine January 2001 Cairo
  25. Presentations on telemedicine to the Minister for Health Bangladesh at Dhaka Feb 2001
  26. Invited to talk on Telemedicine at National Brain storming session held by Research Laboratories of Hewlett Packard, Bangalore March 2001
  27. Guest lecture in workshop on Needs-based Telemedicine Project for Gujarat May 2001, Development and Educational Communication Unit, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad.
  28. Only Speaker from Asia Participated in a live inter-continental multi point telemedicine symposium from Madras held as a part of the VI International Conference on Telemedicine. June 19th 2001 Upsaala Sweden
  29. Organising Secretary of First Neurosurgical Video Teleconference with Fujita Health University, Nagoya, Japan held on Tuesday, 7th August 2001 from Madras
  30. Lectures on Telemedicine at Ananthapur District Hospital, Port Blair Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thiruvananthapuram, Bilaspur and several other hospitals in India.
  31. Member National Task Force on Telemedicine
  32. Invited guest, delivered Guest Lecture on Computers in Neuro Sciences at the first National Conference at Medical Informatics at Hyderabad, 1999.
  33. Invited guest speaker Computers in Neuro Sciences Second National conference on Indian Society of Health Administrators Bangalore 1999
  34. Member High power committee on Telemedicine ISRO
  35. Teleconsultant in Neurosurgery SHAR Space Center, Kalpakkam
  36. Member of the Board of Directors of Kosava Foundation for three years from June 2001. The Board of Directors of this Foundation are basically whos who in world telemedicine and other dignitaries and personalities from USA, Europe and Asia".
  37. Guest Lecture Telemedicine in the care for the less than abled National conference on INTEND 2001 Information Technology in enabling care for persons with disability Anna University, Chennai, June 26th 2001.
  38. Invited guest speaker on Telemedicine in international conference on IT, Communication Technology and Bioinformatics September 2001 Madras Confederation of Indian Industry Southern Region
  39. Distinguished Speaker Telemedicine in Action The Apollo experience at the IT FOR THE COMMON MAN Conference on 2nd November 2001, as part of Bangalore IT.Com 2001 scheduled on November 2nd Bangalore Department IT, Government of Karnataka, STPI & Trade Fairs & Conferences International.
  40. Invited Guest lecture Telemedicine in Action The Apollo experience at the International Conference on Medical informatics November 23rd 2001 Hyderabad
  41. Invited Guest lecture Computers in Clinical Practice at the International Conference on Medical informatics  November 23rd 2001 Hyderabad
  42. Member Advisory Committee International Conference on Medical informatics November 23rd 2001 Hyderabad
  43. Consultant and Advisor Telemedicine proposed project IIITM/K Govt of Kerala
  44. Invited Guest lecture Teleradiology at the annual CME programme of the Tamilnadu Sate Chapter of The Indian Association of Radiology
  45. Organising Secretary of Second Neurosurgical Video Teleconference with Dept. of Neurosurgery UDMNJ New Jersey Thursday 6th December 2001
  46. Guest speaker Telemedicine and Neurosciences A historical perspective of the global and Indian scenario Golden jubilee conference of the Neurological Society of India December 2001
  47. Several articles published and accepted for publication on Telemedicine
  48. Invited Faculty IT Scenario in India- Retrospects & Prospects organised by Anna University January 24 & 25th 2002, Chennai Lecture on Telemedicine in India an Overview.
  49. Invited speaker intercontinental tele-staff neuro-surgery /trauma emergency medicine & disaster management Tunisia Chennai Geneva Paris March 27th 2002 International Discussant for a case presentation in Neurosurgery from Tunisia March 27th 2002
  50. Invited Guest Lecture Media Lab Asia Asian Regional Network Conference April 25, 2002 at New Delhi Digital Village: Towards a Sustainable Future
  51. Invited expert ISRO high power meeting on "Telemedicine in North Eastern India" 15th May 2002 Bangalore.
  52. Invited Guest Lecture Telemedicine and Neurosciences August 2002 MidTerm Annual conference of the Neurological Society of India, New Delhi
  53. Have supervised more than 400 teleconsultations from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
  54. Role of Telemedicine in Neurosciences Invited Guest Lecture at MidTerm Annual Conference of the Neurological Society of India, August 2002 New Delhi.
  55. Participant of Workshop on Needs-based Telemedicine Project for Gujarat May 2001, Development and Educational Communication Unit, Indian Space Research Foundation, Ahmedabad.
  56. Invited faculty First Balkan Seminar on Telemedicine October 25 27 2002 Pristina, Kosovo. Lectures on Telemedicine in India - An Overview and Telemedicine and Neurosciences
  57. Invited guest lecture on Telemedicine and Neurosciences at the Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons Biannual conference at Hong Kong November 2002
  58. Live demonstration of telemedicine from Chennai to Engineering College of Anna university in Madurai to the President of India Dr.Abdul Kalaam on December 14th 2002
  59. Faculty member World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Post Graduate Course at Dhaka Bangladesh Feb 4th to 6th 2003 . Invited lectures on Telemedicine and Neurosciences
  60. Guest speaker Telemedicine and its applications in critical care . Convenor of programme for Live demonstration of telecritical care ( Jaipur- Chennai, Jaipur New Delhi, Conference venue- Jaipur)
  61. Telemedicine and Neurosciences in Developing countries. Surgical Neurology 58, 388-395, 2002
K Ganapathy