Indian doctors host KMA-IDF Oration 2017

Indian Doctors Forum hosted its biannual event ‘KMA-IDF Oration 2017’ yesterday at 6 pm at the Al-Baraka Ballroom, Crowne Plaza hotel. This is the 7th oration hosted by the IDF. The event was held in collaboration with Kuwait Medical Association (KMA).

“We select our speaker based on his body of work and international reputation. We always select a doctor who is working in India, is leading a big research team and has a large body of published literature. Our aim in holding this oration is to showcase Indian medical talent to the Kuwaiti medical fraternity, encourage medical tourism to India and to encourage Kuwaiti doctors to seek training in centers of excellence in India,” said Dr Abhay Patwari, President, IDF.

Past recipients of this award have been Dr Mammen Chandy, Dr Talwar, Dr Ramchandra, Dr Khurru, Dr Nageshwar Reddy and Dr V Mohan. This year, an IDF committee has chosen Dr Moni Abraham Kuriakose, Professor and Director of Surgical Oncology and Director of Translational Research at the MazumdarShaw Cancer Center, Bangalore, India. Dr Moni Kuriakose is an international authority on oral cancer and is working towards making cancer care affordable in developing countries. He will present his work during this visit to Kuwait.

In addition to the KMA-IDF oration on ‘Digitally Connected Cancer Care - Oral Cancer as a model’, Dr Moni Kuriakose will give two more additional talks; ‘Translational Research in Oral Oncology’ at the Kuwait Cancer Control Center (KCCC) and ‘Targeting Cancer Stem Cells for Oral Cancer Chemoprevention’ at the Faculty of Medicine Health Science Center, Kuwait University today.