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Professor & Head of
Clinical Microbiology Division,
Department of Laboratory Medicine,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS)

New Delhi-1100029, India
Ph: (+91-11) 2658-8484 / 2659-4977
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CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPS/TRAINING ORGANISED

Orrganized International & National Conferences / Symposia and Workshops

	Member Organising Committee- National Congress of Medical Microbiologists, at All India Institute of Sciences, New Delhi, October, 1992.
	Member Organising Committee , XXXIII National Conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, November 1992.
	Organising Secretary-National Symposium on Toxoplasmosis in India. First symposium held at AIIMS, New Delhi from September 27-28, 1995.
	Member- International CME on Laboratory Approach to Paediatric Problems, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, October 11-13, 1995.
	Course Director- Three Months Certificate Course on Molecular Methods in Infectious Disease Diagnosis (Govt. of India Programme) March- June 1996.
	Organising Secretary-National Continuing Medical Education Programme on Molecular Methods in Infectious Disease Diagnosis, AIIMS, November 21, 1997.
	Organising Secretary-National Symposium on Rapid Diagnosis of Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts, AIIMS, November, 22-23, 1997.
	Course Co-ordinator for WHO-AIIMS-NIB Hands-on Workshop on Molecular methods in Infectious Disease Diagnosis. July 5-15, 1999.
	Organising Secretary-First National Conference of Laboratory Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi from January 27-29, 2000.
	Course Co-ordinator- Hands-on Workshop on Molecular Methods in Disease Diagnosis. January 21-25, 2000.
	Course Director- DBT-AIIMS, Hands-on Wet Workshop on Automation and Molecular Methods in Infectious Disease diagnosis. December 1-23, 2000.
	Organising Secretary, Hands-on Workshop on Molecular Methods in Infectious Disease Diagnosis, February 16-20, 2002.
	Organising Secretary, Second National Conference of Laboratory Medicine, Feb. 21-23, 2002.
	Organising Secretary, International Symposium on Leishmaniasis, New Delhi, Feb. 23-24, 2002.
	Course Director- DBT-AIIMS Hands-on Workshop on Molecular Biology in Infectious Disease Diagnosis, May 1-23, 2002.
	Course Director- DBT-AIIMS Hands-on Workshop on Molecular Biology in Infectious Disease Diagnosis, August 4-23, 2003.
	Course Director- DBT-AIIMS Hands-on Workshop on Molecular Biology in Infectious Disease Diagnosis, February 17- March 5, 2005.
	Course Director- Hands-on Workshop on HIV Viral Load monitoring, March 25-26, 2006.
	Course Director- Hands-on Workshop on Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis, March 25-26, 2006.
	Course Director- Hands-on Workshop on Laboratory Diagnosis of Opportunistic Intestinal Parasites in AIDS Patients, March 25-26, 2006.
	Course Director- Hands-on Workshop on Laboratory Diagnosis of acute Toxoplasmosis in AIDS, March 26, 2006.
	Organising Secretary, International Conference on Opportunistic Pathogens in AIDS (ICOPA-INDIA), New Delhi, February 27-29, 2006.
	Chairman, International Conference on Opportunistic Pathogens in AIDS (ICOPA-INDIA), New Delhi, February 27-29, 2008.
	Chairman, Organising Committee, Second National Conference of Tropical Parasitology (Tropacon-2), New Delhi, October 30- November 2, 2008.


International Conferences / Seminars / Workshops/ Attended
	International Symposium on Amoebiasis: held at New Delhi, Dec. 14-16, 1990.
	VII International Conference on AIDS/STD, Florence, Italy, June 16-21, 1991.
	International Congress of Infectious Diseases, Nairobi, Kenya,June 7-11,1992.
	2nd International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, New Delhi, November 9-12, 1992.
	International CME programme on AIDS, New Delhi from November 7-9, 1992.
	IX International Conference on AIDS & International Conference on STD, Berlin, June 6-11, 1993.
	Workshop on Animal Ethics. University of Health Sciences, Chicago, March 1994.
	Seminar on Radiation Safety. University of Health Sciences, Chicago, August 1994.
	X International Conference on AIDS and International Conference on STD, Yokohama, Japan, August, 1994.
	International workshop on Diagnosis of parasitic infections. Cincinnati, USA, Nov. 12, 1994.
	Annual Congress of American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Cincinnati, USA, Nov. 13-17, 1994.
	Third International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Chiang-Mai, Thailand, Sept. 17-21, 1995.
	International CME on Laboratory Approach to Pediatric Problems, New Delhi, Oct. 11-13, 1995.
	Global Meet on Parasitic Diseases, New Delhi, March 18-22, 1996.
	International Symposium on Kala-azar Research, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, March 22-24, 1996.
	9th International Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host. Assisi, Italy, June 17-21, 1996.
	XI International Conference on AIDS. Vancouver, Canada, July 7-12, 1996.
	Second Global Meet on Parasitic Diseases, Hyderabad, India, August 18-22, 1997.
	10th International Symposium on Infections in Immunocompromised Host, Davos, Switzerland, June 21-25, 1998.
	XII International Conference on AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland, June 28-July 3, 1998.
	Tenth International Conference of Immunology, New Delhi, November 1-6, 1998.
	International Conference and Workshop on recent advances in medical Toxicology and Legal Medicine. New Delhi, November 2-7, 1998.
	International CME of American College of Physicians and American Association of Physicians from India, Hyderabad August 12-14, 1999.
	XIII International Conference of AIDS, Durban South Africa, July 2000.
	Workshop on Ethical Issues in International Health Research, organized jointly by Harvard and Tuft Universities of USA and Univ. of Natal, South Africa, Durban, South Africa, July 2000.
	5th International Meeting on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases. Hyderabad, India. November 12-16, 2000.
	ICMR-WHO symposium on Kala-azar. December 18-19, 2000, at Hotel Imperial, New Delhi.
	WHO-Safe injection Global Network Annual Meeting held at New Delhi, August 29-31,2001.
	Annual Conference of Australian Society for HIV Medicine, Melbourne. October 3-7,2001.
	Sixth International Congress on AIDS in Asia & the Pacific,Melbourne,Australia, Oct. 5-10, 2001.
	III International Conference of AIDS-India 2000, Chennai, December 2-5, 2001.
	VIII International CME of Mediciti, Hyderabad, December 27-30, 2001.
	International Symposium on Leishmaniasis, New Delhi, February 23-24, 2002.
	First International Conference of the Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, As Rapporteur. New Delhi, March 9, 2002.
	10th International Conference of Infectious Diseases. Singapore March 11-14,2002.
	12th International Symposium of International Immunocompromised Host Society,Bergen (Norway), June 21-26, 2002.
	14th International AIDS Conference, Barcelona (Spain), July 5-11, 2002.
	International Symposium n Toxoplasmosis. Only Representative from India.Paris, Oct 11-12, 2002.
	3rd International Conference on Integrated Medicine, organised by Mediciti, Hyderabad, January 4-5, 2003.
	International Conference of HospiMedica, Bangkok, Thailand, September 4-7, 2003.
	3rd International Conference of AIDS India. Chennai, India, November 9-12, 2003.
	8th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Pacific Rim", at Dhaka, December 11-12, 2003.
	3rd Global Meet on Parasitic Diseases held at Bangalore, January 12-16, 2004.
	11th the International Conference of Infectious Diseases, Cancun, Mexico, March 4-8, 2004.
	Biomeriux Science Foundation International Conference on Tuberculosis. Annecy, France. July 1-4, 2004.
	10th Annual International Continuing Medical Education Program HIV Update at MediCiti Hyderabad, India. August 7-8, 2004.
	First Asia /Pacific Conference on Women, Girls & HIV /AIDS Best Practices, Islamabad, Pakistan. November 31-December 1, 2004.
	International Symposium on Emerging Trends in Tuberculosis. ICGEB, New Delhi, November 15-17, 2004.
	9th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Kyoto, Japan, December 7-10, 2004.
	International Conference on Functional Genomics for Vaccine & Novel Drug Design against Mycobacteria, IIT Kharagpur (WB) February 10-14, 2005.
	Asian Regional Workshop on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Seattle Biomedical Research center, USA and JNU, India, New Delhi, March 8-10, 2005.
	Indo-US workshop on Diarrhoeal diseases held at NICED, Kolkata from October 3-5, 2005.
	5th International Conference on AIDS India. Chennai, India, October 22-24, 2005.
	International Conference on “Global Clinical Trials in India-Prospects & Challenges” organised by FICCI, at New Delhi, November 14-16, 2005.
	International Conference on Opportunistic Pathogens in AIDS, New Delhi, March 27-29, 2006.
	International Workshop on “Defining the Future- HIV/AIDS next 25 years” Chennai, December 18-20, 2006.
	Organising Secretary, International Conference on Opportunistic Pathogens in AIDS (ICOPA-INDIA), New Delhi, February 27-29, 2006.
	International Workshop on “Laboratory Diagnosis of Enteric Parasites” Calcutta from February 17-20, 2008.
	XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, 3-8 August 2008.
	International Conference on Opportunistic Pathogens in AIDS (ICOPA-INDIA), New Delhi, February 27-29, 2008.
National Conferences / Seminars / Workshops Attended
	Computers: A management Tool: CMC limited 16-17, December 1985.
	XXVIII Annual Conference of ISG, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Nov. 26-29,1987.
	XIII National Congress of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologist, Jaipur, November 10-12, 1989
	XXXI National Conference of ISG, Jaipur, November, 25-29, 1990.
	XXXII National Conference of ISG, Trivandrum, October, 6-9, 1991.
	National Symposium on Eye Banking (North Zone),guest lecture on "Rapid diagnosis of corneal ulcers" New Delhi, August 25-26, 1990.
	Workshop on "Ophthalmic Microbiology and Pathology, Lectures and demonstration on Acanthamoeba keratitis Dr. RPC for Ophthalmic Sciences, New Delhi, September 17-19 1991.
	Workshop on "Media in Medical Education", CMET, AIIMS, New Delhi,Jan.2-3,1992.
	ICMR sponsored Workshop on " Parasites in AIDS-Cryptosporidium",Department of Parasitology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, April 27-29, 1992.
	XIX National Conference of Indian Immunology Society,Bangalore January 8-11,1993.
	XXXIV National Congress of ISG, Panji (Goa), October 13-17, 1993.
	Centenary Conference of Indian Veterinary Research Institute,Mukteshwar Campus, Mukteshwar, Nainital (Invited speaker), December 2-3, 1993.
	National Symposium on Toxoplasmosis, New Delhi, September 27-28, 1995.
	37th Annual congress of Veterinary Science and Avian Research, IVRI, Bareilly, February 22-23, 1996.
	Panellist-Workshop on Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratory. April 26-28, 1997, New Delhi.
	Guest Speaker, DBT Sponsored Training programme on "Immunopathology- Modern trends in Diagnosis & Control" Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Sciences, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar, UP, February 17-19, 1998.
	Seminar on Accreditation of Clinical Laboratories, New Delhi,February 28,1998
	Zoonotic Parasites-their diagnosis and control-III National Training Programme, Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Parasitology, Veterinary College, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, March 15-17, 1998.
	Delivered a lecture on Molecular diagnosis of Kala-azar during 13th National Congress of Indian Society of Parasitologists, February 24-26, 1999,Bangalore.
	Delivered an invited lecture on "Current situation of HIV AIDS in India"in an Annual Symposium of Immunology Society of India "An update on Clinical Immunology", Srinagar, August 24-5, 1999.
	Participated in 49th National Conference of Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologist at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi from November 15-19, 2000.
	Participated in Ranbaxy Science Foundation- 7th Round Table Conference on Tuberculosis. New Delhi, September 2000.
	National Conference of Laboratory Medicine. 27-29 Jan, 2001. "Gross Anatomy to Molecular Biology".
	Delivered an invited lecture on Recent advances in molecular tools in the Diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis in a DBT-IVRI workshop at IVRI, Izatnagar, Bareilly, UP. March 26-27, 2001.
	Participated in NACO/UNICEF workshop to draft a module on Mother-to-child-transmission of HIV. Gurgaon, Haryana, July 4-5, 2001.
	Annual Conference of Australian Society for HIV Medicine, Melbourne, October 3-7,2001.
	Sixth International Congress on AIDS in Asia & Pacific,Melbourne,Australia, October 5-10, 2001.
	III International Conference of AIDS-India 2000, Chennai, December 2-5, 2001.
	VIII International CME of Mediciti, Hyderabad, December 27-30, 2001.
	Second National Symposium of Society for Immunology & Immunolopathology, Pant Nagar, December 14-15, 2001.
	CII-CSIR Conference on Medicines in malaria. Hotel Hyatt, New Delhi. February 11-12, 2002.
	Rheumatology Update (Delhi Chapter). New Delhi. February 17, 2002.
	Second National Conference of Laboratory Medicine, February 21-23, 2002.
	CII Sponsored HIV/AIDS Meeting, Hotel Tajmahal, New Delhi. February 27,2002.
	Third Sir Dorabji Tata Symposim on Diarrhoeal Diseases. Bangalore, March 21-22,2002.
	XXVI Annual Conference of IAMM, Bangalore, November 21-24, 2002 .
	Short term training course on Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights, Bangalore, 8-13 December, 2002.
	Lecture on HIV-TB co-infection, King George Medical College, Lucknow, December 27-29, 2002.
	Delivered a Talk on "TORCH Group of Infections", Chhattisgarh Association of Pathologists at Raipur, Chhatisgarh, February 15-16, 2003.
	Workshop on Veterinary Medicine at IVRI, Izzatnagar, Bareilly, February 27-28, 2003.
	Brainstorming session on "Molecules of therapeutic importance from Marine and Estuarine environment" Calcutta, April 17-18, 2003.
	Public Lecture on Waterborne diseases, Organised by an NGO, Gurgaon, April 26, 2003.
	27th National Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, to be held at Mumbai, November 5- 9, 2003.
	National Conference on Management of HIV/AIDS in Resource Restricted Setting from February 20-22, 2004.
	Third Convention of Society for Immunology and Immunopathology & National Symposium on Cytokines and Signal Transduction, JALMA, Agra, February 13-15, 2004.
	28th National Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, held at Lucknow, November 25- 28, 2004.
	Summer School Programme of Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, October 10, 2005.
	29th National Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, held at Chennai, October 21- 23, 2005.
	17th National Congress of Parasitology. Held at Dibrugarh, Assam, October 24-26, 2005.
	4th Biennial Conference of The Indian Association of Leprologists at JALMA, Agra, from November 12-14, 2005.
	4th National workshop on “Simple Diagnostic Methods in Infectious Diseases” JIPMER, Pondicherry November 22-26, 2005.
	Speaker and Chairperson of scientific session, XXX National Conference of Medical Microbiologists” at Nagpur, October 26- 27, 2006.
	46th Annual Conference of National Academy of Medical Sciences” at Hyderabad, October 27- 29, 2006.
	Speaker and Chairperson of scientific session 18th National Congress of Parasitology” at Kolkata, November 22-24, 2006.
	Delivered a Talk during UP-MICROCON to be held at Lucknow on February 16, 2008.
	Chaired the Scientific Session in “Society for Free Radical Research – India (SFRR)-India) Satellite Meeting”at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi on February 12, 2008.
	Delivered a lecture on “Methods HIV Testing” during the First Hands-on Workshop on Training course on HIV/AIDS for Medical Officers and Laboratory technicians, National Institute of Biologicals, NOIDA, January 16, 2007.
	Delivered a lecture on “Methods HIV Testing” during the Second Hands-on Workshop on Training course on HIV/AIDS for Medical Officers and Laboratory technicians, National Institute of Biologicals, NOIDA, February 12, 2007.
	Delivered a lecture on “Methods HIV Testing” during the Third Hands-on Workshop on Training course on HIV/AIDS for Medical Officers and Laboratory technicians, National Institute of Biologicals, NOIDA, February 19, 2007.
	Provided hands on-training and Delivered a lecture on Recent Advances in the Diagnosis of Leishmaniasis during the Andhra Pradesh Chapter of IAMM, Hyderabad, February 9, 2007.
	Delivered a lecture on Quality Assurance in Molecular Diagnostics. Microbiology Update. Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi. March 9, 2007.
	Lecture on Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis. National Seminar & Workshop on Johne’s Disease. Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar. August 8, 2007.
	Delivered guest lecture on indigenous developments in the leishmania diagnostics. National Conference of Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology (Tropacon), Chennai, October 6-7, 2007.
	Horizontal spread of HBV among contacts of HBV-CLD patients. Indian Journal of Gastroenterology March, 2008 vol. 27 (supplement 1) S17.

Dr. Singh has remained leading force in organising hands-on-Workshops (No.), CMEs (no. ), and Symposia/conferences including (No. ) national and 3 International.


National Symposium on Toxoplasmosis, AIIMS, New Delhi (Sep 27-28, 1995) Abstract book is being released by the Director, AIIMS, New Delhi


With Dr. J. P. Dubey. The man who discovered the life cycle of Toxoplasma.	Inaugural Lecture on Molecular Methods in Infectious Disease Diagnosis


Inaugurating National Symposium on Rapid Diagnosis of Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts, AIIMS, New Delhi (Nov 22-23, 1997)	The book "Toxmoplasmosis in India" is being released by Dr. P. K. Dave (Director, AIIMS)


Delivering Welcome Address to the participants of the Symposium.	Expressing Concluding Remarks for the Conference.

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Lamp Lighting Ceremony for the "National Conference of Laboratory Medicine". National Anthem being sung in the beginning of the conference. I am with Mr. N. T. Shambhugam (Health Minister) and Dr. P. K. Dave (Director, AIIMS)


Release of Journal of Laboratory Medicine by Dr. N. K. Ganguly (D.G, ICMR). I am Editor of this journal.	Presenting a momento to Dr. N. K. Ganguly (D.G, ICMR)


"International Symposium on Leishmaniasis". Also present are Mr. C. P. Thakur (Central Health Minister) and Dr. P. K. Dave (Director, AIIMS)	Workshop on Gene Amplification Techniques in Disease Diagnosis (January 21-25, 2000)


Dr. Singh at bioMérieux, Marcy, France with an Indian delegates	Dr. Singh taking part in teaching the scientists with Dr. VM Katoch at CJLI, Agra


Dr. Singh discussing with other conference delegates	Minister of Health , Government of India and Director-General of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi releasing the first issue of Journal of Laboratory Medicine with Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Sarman Singh

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Dr. Singh with Union Ministers of Health & Family Welfare, Lighting the lamp as organizing secretary of the International Symposium on Leishmaniasis, 2002	Dr. Singh organizing International Symposium and Conferences


Dr. Singh organizing CME programmes

Valedictory Function of ICOPA-India 2008. Dr. Sarman Singh is seen with Honourable Minister of Health, Government of India; Director, Dean and Medical Superintendent of AIIMS and his core organising team.