Dr. Ajit Surin

Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Name: Ajit Kumar Surin
Sex: Male
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
Present Address: Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha PIN -751005
Present Position: SENIOR CONSULTANT RHEUMATOLOGIST
Registration Number: 13880 (Orissa Council of Medical Registration) / 86102 (Tamil Nadu Medical Council)
Office: +91 674-6661066 / 6661016
Residence: +91 6742544553
Mobile: +91 8093060133
E-Mail: ajitcmc@gmail.com

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Fellowship in Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology: Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore, India (2010)
MD (General Medicine) : VSS Medical College, Burla, Orissa, India, Sambalpur University (2006)
MBBS : M.K.C.G Medical College, Berhampur, Orissa, India, Berhampur University (1998)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

General Medicine: OVER 6 YEARS (2002 – 2008)

Rheumatology & Immunology: OVER 12 YEARS (2008 – TILL DATE )

Consultant Rheumatologist: Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Consultant Rheumatologist: Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India (August 2011 till September 2014)
I was in charge of outpatient and inpatient departments. I handled cases of lupus, early arthritis, spondyloarthritis and crystal clinic apart from looking at patients in Intensive Care Unit and referred patients.

Consultant Medicine and Rheumatology: Baptist Christian Hospital, Tezpur, Assam, India
I was in charge of patient care in OPD, inpatient department, ICU and emergency department. I was given the primary responsibility of patient care in medical ward, infectious disease ward, Intensive Care Unit and casualty. I was involved in teaching programmes for postgraduate students.

Registrar in Rheumatology: Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India (March 2008 – March 2010)

I handled patients in wards as well as ICU. I looked into diagnosis, complications, co-morbidities and treatment strategies for each and multidisciplinary approach involving Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Orthopaedics and so on.

Consultant Medicine: Baptist Christian Hospital, Tezpur, Assam, India (November 2006 – February 2008)

Consultant Medicine: Vivekananda Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India (September 2006 – October 2006)

Registrar in Department of Medicine: VSS Medical College, Burla, Orissa, India (2003 –2006)

Medical Officer in Community Health Centre, Kashipur, Rayagada District and Primary Health Centre, Mandibisih, Rayagada District, Orissa, India (2002 – 2003)

Internship: M.K.C.G Medical college, Berhampur, Orissa, India (December 1998 – December 1999)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

#	Title of the Study	Principal Investigator	Co-Investigator	IRB No.
1	Prevalence and Predictors of Common Mental Illnesses in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis in a Tertiary Care Center	Dr Ajit Kumar Surin	Dr Debashish Danda	–
2	Study the efficacy, safety and compliance of pulse Oral Cyclophasphamide as induction therapy in SLE	Dr Ajit Kumar Surin	Dr Vishad Vishwanath	–
3	Efficacy of Methotrexate and Sulphasalazine in Axial Spondyloart	Dr P. Sandhya	Dr Ajit Kumar Surin	–
4	Study of clinical and genetic predictors for efficacy of Methotrexate and Sulphasalazine in Axial Spondyloarthritis	Dr P. Sandhya	Dr Ajit Kumar Surin	–
5	Pilot study on oral microbiome in rheumatic disease using community metagenome sequencing approach	Dr P. Sandhya	Dr Ajit Kumar Surin	–

 

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Ajit Surin, Aswin Nair, George Jacob and Debashish Danda (2014),” Lupus Enteritis: An Important Cause to Be Considered in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients with Acute Abdomen – A Case Report”, International Journal of Case Reports in Medicine, Vol. 2014 (2014), Article ID 608426, DOI: 10.5171/2014. 6084

2. Ruchika Goel, T. Sathish Kumar, Debashish Danda, George Joseph, Visali Jeyaseelan, Ajit Kumar Surin, and Paul Bacon,Childhood-onset Takayasu Arteritis — Experience from a Tertiary Care Center in South India Journal of Rheumatology, DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.131117

3. Janardana R, Nair A, Surin AK, Prakash JA, Gowri M, Danda D. Clinical Rheumatology. 2019 Jul
15. doi: 10.1007/s10067-019-04659-2.Unique clinical and autoantibody profile of a large Asian Indian cohort of scleroderma-do South Asians have a more aggressive disease?

4. Sharma D, Sandhya P, Vellarikkal SK, Surin AK, Jayarajan R, Verma A, Kumar A, Ravi R, Danda D, Sivasubbu S, Vinod S . Saliva microbiome in primary Sjogren’s syndrome reveals distinct set of disease associated microbes.Oral Disease 2019 Sep 12. doi: 10.1111/odi.13191

5. Shivraj Padiyar , Suvrat Arya , Ajit Surin , Vishad Viswanath, Debashish DandaComparison of safety, 25 May 2020 efficacy and cost between oral pulse cyclophosphamide versus intravenous cyclophosphamide pulse therapy in severe systemic lupus erythematosus doi :10.1111/1756- 185X.13823

PAPERS PRESENTED:

1. Poster presentation titled “Study of Thyroid Function Status in patients of Chronic Renal Failure” in 60th Annual Conference of API held in Mumbai.

2. Presented my thesis “Serum Magnesium and Calcium status in Hypokalemic Disorders” in the State API – Orissa Chapter Conference.

3. Poster presentation Titled, “Effect of Mycophenolate in Lupus Nephritis” in IRACON 2008 (Indian Rheumatological Association)

4. Two poster presentation in IRACON 2012, Ahmedabad

5. IG4 Related Diseases: A report of 6 cases (IRACON 2012, Ahmedabad, India))

6. Safety, efficacy and compliance of pulse oral Cyclophoshamide as induction therapy in Systemic Lupus Eythematosus(IRACON 2012, Ahmedabad, India)

7. Presented Scleroderma – Vellore data in IRACON 2013 in Kolkata, India

8. Delivered lecture titled “ What new in Osteoporosis” at Christian Medical College , Vellore on 24 March , 2018

9. Presented oral abstract presentation at APLAR – ARA 2019 ( Asia Pacific League against Rheumatism – Australian Rheumatology Association ) on IgA nephropathy in a female patient with Spondyloarthropathy masquerading as Poncets Disease (or Extrapulmonary TB) : A case study , at Brisbane, Australia.

10. Presented “ Lupus Nephritis “ – A case based presentation In Imphal , Manipur ( Annual Conference of East Zone Rheumatology Association “ on 13 th September, 2019.

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND CMEs

1. Symposiums on Rheumatoid arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in March and April respectively organized by the Department of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology: Christian Medical college and Hospital, Vellore, India, (2013)

2. CMEs on Inflammatory Disease (July), Inflammatory Myositis (August), Antiphosphospholipid Syndrome (September) organised by Department of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology: Christian Medical college and Hospital , Vellore, India, (2013)

3. Workshop on “Ethics in Research & Good Clinical Practice” in (2013)

4. Workshop on Muskuloskeletal Ultrasound Department of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology: Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India (2013)

5. Principles and practice of Epidemiology conducted by community health department, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India (2012)

6. Attended CME on Ten points on Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, Department of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology: Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, (2012)

7. Workshop on Immunity and Infection: Cellular and molecular basis of protective immune responses, conducted by Department of Gastrointestinal sciences , Christian Medical college and Hospital ,Vellore in collaboration with American Society for Microbiology (2009).

8. Workshop on Economic evaluation for health care intervention conducted by Department of community Medicine, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore (2009)

9. Indian Rheumatology Association Conferences in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013

10. Annual Conference of the Association of Physicians of India, Mumbai, India, 2005

11. Training of Medical Officers on Reproductive Tract Infection and Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Department of Community Medicine, M.K.C.G Medical college, Berhampur,Orissa, India 2003( sponsored by UNFPA)

12. Attended Health Management Course in Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata , India in 2003 (sponsored by State Institute of Family Welfare, Orissa)

13. Conferences and workshops of ACR (American college of Rheumatology) at Sanfrancisco (2015) Washington(2016), Chicago ( 2018), Atlanta( 2019)

14. Classes of Ten Topics in Rheumatology, London, UK (2016)

15. Conferences of EULAR(European Union of League against Rheumatism) Madrid, Spain (2017), Rome, Italy(2015)

PRESENTATIONS AT CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, VELLORE, INDIA

1. Classification , structure and Anatomy of joints

2. Examination of Hand and Wrist

3. Osteoporosis and Osteopenia

4. Acute phase reactants

5. SLE – Diagnosis and evaluation

6. Treatment of Immune Thrombocytopenia

7. Arthroplasty – TKR and THR

8. Bioliogicals – Tocilizumab

9. Update on Coticosteroids

10. Urate lowering Therapies

11. Approach to knee pain

12. Hypereosinophillic syndromes

13. Diagnostic value of Anti topoisomerase

14. Diagnosis, Management of Scleroderma Renal Disease

15. Early Inflammatory Arthritis versus Rheumatoid arthritis

16. Imaging Tools for Inflammatory Myositis

17. Adalimumab in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

18. Radilogical Changes in Rheumatoid Arthritis

19. Tocilizumab – Long term safety and efficacy

20. Bone Markers

21. Hyaluronic acid

22. Hypersensitivity Reactions

23. Diagnosis and Complications of Rheumatoid arthritis

24. Undifferentiated connective tissue disease

REFEREES

Dr. Sunil Chandy, MD, DM Cardiology, FCSI, M Phil Director,
Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu – 632 004, India.
Phone: 04162282010
Email : sunilchandycmc@gmail.com

Dr . Debashish Danda MD , DM Clinical Immunology FRCP Professor
Department Of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology
Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore Tamil Nadu – 6320 04, India
Phone: 0416 – 2282529
Email – debashisdandacmc@hotmail.com

Dr. Samuel George Hansdak MD Medicine Professor and Head of Medicine IV
Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu – 632 004, India. 
Phone: +919894391277
Email : hansdaksg@yahoo.com