Approval of minutes of General Body meeting held on Oct , 2004 in Jaipur and action taken.
Approval of valid nominations for life membership of the society.
Sponsorship of young gastroenterologists to international conference
ISG to host APAGE conference in 2008
Audit of accounts for year 2004-5.
Proposed budget for year 2005-6.
Election results of office bearers
Venue and dates of future conferences
ISG 2006
ISG 2007
Mid term conferences of ISG 2006.
Any other issue with the permission of the chair.
Minutes of General Body Meeting
The General Body Meeting of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology was held under the chairmanship of Dr KR Palaniswamy (President, ISG).
The minutes of the General Body meeting held in October 2004 in Jaipur were approved.
81 valid nominations for life membership of the society were approved.
The members expressed their deep appreciation on the sponsorship of 5 young members for attending the WCOG in September 2005 in Montreal Canada. It was decided that the society should continue this activity of sponsoring members to attend international conferences according to the criteria used this time. Also, it was felt that young members being sponsored should have either completed or be registered for training in gastroenterology at the time of applying.
Members congratulated Prof Rakesh Tandon ( ISG representative to APAGE) for winning the bid and bringing the APDW conference to India in 2008. The members approved Delhi as the venue, Prof Rakesh Tandon as the chairman and Prof Subrat Acharya as the organizing secretary for the conference.
The members approved the audit statement for the year 2004-5, and the proposed budget for the year 2005-6.
It was pointed out that the constitutional requirement for an applicant for the post of Honorary Secretary was that he/ she should have served the society as a governing council member. Extension of the same criteria for applying for the posts of Honorary Treasurer and President-elect was approved.
The election results were announced. Prof Subrat Acharya (President elect), Prof Shobna Bhatia (Hon Treasurer) and Prof Prabha Sawant and Dr TS Chandrasekhar (Governing Council members). The other members co-opted to the Governing Council were Dr Malathi Sathiyasekaran, Dr Sadiq S Sikora, Dr Randhir Sud and Dr YK Chawla. Their candidature was approved.
Mumbai was approved as the venue for the ISG Annual conference 2006 and Prof Prabha Sawant as Organizing Secretary. The proposed dates November 8-12, 2006 were approved.
Kolkata and Bangalore bid for the 2007 ISG conference; Bangalore was provisionally approved as the venue for the ISG Annual conference 2007. It was pointed out that there was no viable state chapter (Karnataka) to bid for the conference. Dr Sathya Prakash and Dr Naresh Bhat were requested to (re)create and register the Karnataka chapter of ISG in the next 3 months, following which the venue and organizing secretary of the 2007 conference could be confirmed.
The 2 mid term ISG conferences were awarded to Chandigarh ( Prof Deepak Bhasin) and Mangalore ( Dr BV Tantry)
Several SAARC members pointed out that the membership fee for them was too steep. The members decided to reduce the membership fee for SAARC country members to Rs 5000/- ( India rupees), at par with Indian members.
In response to a petition by Dr SP Singh ( Cuttack), 28 July, the birthday of Prof Blumberg, was designated as Hepatitis B Eradication Day.
It was proposed and approved that a scroll be presented to the president of ISG after his presidential oration, each year.
The need for organizing a joint meeting of the ISG along with the 2 sister societies (INASL and SGEI) during the annual ISG meetings was felt. The Hony Secretary of ISG was authorized to interact with the executives of the 2 sister societies to try and draw up a combined program for future years.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.
Agenda for General Body Meeting
2007-09-10
Jaipur, 2nd October, 4.00PM, 2004
Approval of minutes of General Body meeting held on Nov 21, 2003 in Chennai, and action taken.
Approval of valid nominations for life membership of the society.
Participation in World Congress of Gastroenterology conference 2005 in Montreal.
ISG website
ISG Task Force(s)
Audit of accounts for year 2003-4.
Proposed budget for year 2004-5.
Election results of office bearers
Venue and dates of future conferences a. ISG 2005 b. ISG 2006 c. Mid term conferences of ISG 2005.
Any other issue with the permission of the chair.
Minutes of General Body Meeting
The General Body approved the minutes of General Body meeting held on November 21, 2003 in Chennai, and action taken.
Eighty-five valid nominations for life membership of the society were approved.
Participation in World Congress of Gastroenterology conference 2005 in Montreal.
The General Body approved and appreciated the initiative by the ISG to sponsor 5 young gastroenterologists to the above meeting
The new ISG website and the ease with which abstracts had been submitted on-line for the ISGCON2004 was appreciated.
ISG Task Force(s) The General Body approved and appreciated the creation of the ISG Task Forces for various diseases and nomination of the respective coordinators.
Audit of accounts for year 2003-4 were approved
Proposed budget for year 2004-5 was approved
Election results of office bearers
President elect: Prof Deepak Bhasin (Chandigarh)
Governing Council members: Prof Ashok Chacko (Vellore), Dr Pramod Garg (New Delhi) were approved.
Venue and dates of future conferences
ISG 2005: Vishakapatanam was approved following the inspection report of the venue by Prof Philip Abraham and Dr K R Palaniswamy. Dr E Peda Veerraju , the organizing secretary, informed the dates :: CME on November 11, 2005, and conference on November 12-14, 2005
ISG 2006: Mumbai was voted as the venue with Dr Prabha Sawant as the organizing secretary
Mid term conferences of ISG 2005.
Ooty: Organizer: Dr KR Palaniswam Two other bids had been received:
Ahmedabad: Organizer: Dr Sudhanshu Patwari
Mysore: Organizer: Dr R P Wadhwa -Normally only 2 mid term conferences of ISG are awarded every year, for which the society pays a token amount of Rs 40,000/- (increased from the earlier amount of Rs 20,000/-) each. The bid for Mysore was considered and approved to be held under the aegis of the ISG as it was the first time a bid had come from that city.
ISG representation in APAGE and bid for conference. The general body was apprised that
Prof Rakesh Tandon had sought the permission of the Governing Council to bid for the APAGE conference in India (New Delhi) for the year 2007 / 8 on behalf of the ISG, which was granted.
The council requested Dr Tandon to name an organizing secretary, should the conference be awarded to ISG. Prof SK Acharya, (AIIMS) was nominated the Organizing Secretary.
It was clarified that if the APAGE is hosted by India, the ISG annual conference that year would be held in conjunction with APAGE, and the scientific program would be decided jointly by the following: i. The ISG representative to APAGE ii. The Organizing Secretary of the conference iii. The Hony Secretary of ISG
Dr F P Antia Memorial Achievement Award: Proposal for instituting a Life Time Achievement award annually by the society. Prof HG Desai offered a sum of Rs 3 laks toward instituting this award. There was considerable deliberations regarding the composition of the jury for selecting the awardee, which was finally decided to consist of
a. President of Indian Society of Gastroenterology b. Editor, Indian Journal of Gastroenterology c. Dr H G Desai OR Head of Gastroenterology, BYL Nair Hospital and T N Medical College, Mumbai d. Head of Gastroenterology, AIIMS, New Delhi
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.
Minutes of General Body Meeting
Indian Society of Gastroenterology
2007-09-10
Chennai Nov 21, 2003 Prof Philip Abraham, President ISG chaired the meeting
Resolution of condolence for late Dr FP Antia and Dr Venkataswarulu was passed. The members stood in silence for a minute, in mourning.
The minutes of the previous general body meeting held in Cochin on 22nd Nov 2003 were passed. The Hony Secretary informed the members of the actions taken.
The members approved the 32 valid nominations for life membership of the society.
The Hony Secretary informed the members of the new awards and prizes instituted in 2003. This included 32 prizes of Rs 5000/- each in the following breakup Young Investigator Session : 4 a. Oral papers : 3 b. Posters : 25 The awards were sponsored by the Organizing Committee of the ISGCON 2003 (20) and JB Chemical and Pharmaceuticals (12). The members appreciated and endorsed the move and expressed their gratitude to the sponsors.
The members were informed about the payment and settlement of the pending membership dues of ISG to World Congress of Gastroenterology (OMGE) and the Asia Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (APASL). ISG is a member society of these 2 international societies. The members appreciated the efforts of the treasurer in clearing the payments that had been pending for 3 years.
The problems faced in running the current ISG website which is presently hosted and run by Walter Bushnell, were discussed. The members agreed that the website should be run by the society directly, rather than by a pharmaceutical house, and authorized the secretary to develop and host the ISG website by the summer of 2004.
The members appreciated the efforts of the President, Prof Philip Abraham in creating ISG Task Forces to gather Indian data and draw up management guidelines for common gastroenterological problems applicable to India. They unanimously felt the need to encourage and develop this activity further.
The audited accounts for year 2003 were presented by Dr YK Joshi (2002- Sept 2003) and Dr Shobna Bhatia (Sept 2003 to Nov 2003), and approved.
Vishakapatnam was chosen as the venue for the annual conference of ISG in 2005. It was decided that Dr E Peda Veerraju would be the organizing secretary. As Vishakapatnam has never hosted the ISG conference earlier, a team of ISG inspectors are required to visit Vishakapatnam for site inspection before the 2004 ISG conference and apprise the members about the conference infrastructure in the next general body meeting to be held in Jaipur.
The 2 mid term ISG conferences for the year 2004 were awarded to Delhi (Dr YK Joshi, next president of ISG, as per norms) and to Guwahati (Dr RM Saikia).
The president-elect informed the members that he had received only one valid nomination for membership of the Governing Council (2 posts, 2004-2007), and none for the post of president-elect. Prof B Ramakrishna was elected unopposed to the Governing Council 92004-2007). Prof Philip Abraham was asked to seek nominations and conduct elections for the 2 vacant posts (president-elect and one post of GC member) within 2-3 months.
Dr Ramesh Roop Rai, the organizing secretary of the ISG conference 2004 to be held in Jaipur was requested to finalize the conference dates and inform the members at the earliest. The members expressed their appreciation with the organization of the Chennai conference and the standards to remain high in Jaipur.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.
