Dr. Melody Baruah
Consultant, Department of Microbiology
MBBS, MD (Microbiology), NEIGRIHMS, Shillong
About
Worked as Consultant Microbilogist and Infection Control officer for last 7 years. Involved in training programs for infection control practices.
Member of:
- Indian Association of Medical Microbilogist
- Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbilogists.
Professional Experience
- Former Senior Resident at GNRC Medical
- Formar Junior Resident at Cardiology at NEIGRIHMS
Conference/Seminar
- Attended live webiner on Value od Diagnostics in Antimicrobial Stewardship on 5th Nov 2019 by University of Minnesota.
- Participated in Infection Prevention & Control for Novel Coronavirus on 11 April 2020 by WHO
- Completed trainning on RT-PCR including CBNAAT & Trunat for COVID testing laboratory conducted by CAHO in 2020
- Presented E-paper on COVID at the virtual annual congress of India Association of Medical Microbiologist at E-MICROCON on Dec 2020 and attended the 4 days CME cum E-Conference.
- Attended as faculty in CRITITALK 2019 conducted by ISCCM
- Attended Quality control in clinical laboratory on 29 June 2019
- Attended CME 'Infection Control' conducted by Gleneagles Hospitals, Hyderabad, 2019
- HISICON (National Conference of Hospital Society, India), Guwahati, February 2017.
- Pre-conference workshop on "Surveillance of healthcare associated infection and infection control laboratories on 8th January 2017
- VIROCON (National Virology Conference), NEIGRIHMS, Shillong, OCtober 2015
Research Topic
- 3 publications in index journals.
Achievements
- Recognized by CAHO as Certified Professional for Quality Implementation in Hospitals after completion of Implementation of NABH Pre-Accredited Entry Level CertificationStanderds in Hospitals
- Recognized by CAHO as Certified Professional for Hospital Infection Control, both Basic and Advanced
- Completed training on Quality Management System & Internal Audit in Medical Laboratories as per ISO 15189:2012
- Awarded 3rd prize in oral paper titled "Prevalence of Mycotic infections among immunocompromised patients attending NEIGRIHMS" at NEMICROCON 2013
