Department Activities

Clinical services

Service	Details
In-patient	15 beds
Respiratory ICU	9 beds
Chest Clinic	Mondays and Thursdays
Lung Cancer Clinic	Tuesdays

Work load of the department in the past 3 years

*NOTE: Following outbreak of COVID-19, non-essential services (including outpatient registrations, non-emergency admissions, and elective procedures) were deferred from the 3rd week of March 2020. **NOTE: Several services were were not fully functional during 2020-2021, due to COVID-19-related restrictions.

Educational activities

Activity	Details
Post doctoral (DM) Course in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine	9-11 at any point of time
Rotational posting of MD Internal Medicine residents	6-10 at any point of time
Short-term clinical attachments	2-6 per year
Dr. S. K. Malik Memorial Oration	Once a year
Annual Update on Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine	Once a year

Dr. S. K. Malik Memorial Oration

Dr. S. K. Malik was our founder, who established this Department in its current state. In his memory, we have instituted an Oration called Dr. S. K. Malik Memorial Oration, which is given to an eminent scientist once in two years.

S. No.	Year	Speaker	Topic
1	1992	Dr. S. K. Tripathy, Director general, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi	HIV and Tuberculosis
2	1996	Dr. Ian Greg, Former Director, Epidemiology in Clinical Practice, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK	Bronchitis and asthma: thoughts on their nature, clinical investigations and management
3	1998	Dr. J. S. Guleria, Former Dean and Head of the Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi	Problems of high altitude hypoxia
4	2000	Dr. J. G. Ayres, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Warwick, Consultant Physician and Director Research, Heartlands hospital, Birmingham, UK	From smog to nanotoxicity: air-pollution and health in the year 2000
5	2003	Prof. Udaya B. Prakash, Scripps Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School and Mayo Postgraduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA	Clinical approach to hemoptysis
6	2005	Prof. Nirmal K. Ganguly, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi	Relevance of tuberculosis research in India
7	2007	Dr. Ruby Pawankar, Professor of Rhinology and Allergy, Department of Otolaryngology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan	The versatile role of mast cells in allergic airway inflammation and remodelling
8	2011	Dr. Daniel Banks, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, USA	Asbestos exposure in the US and India – two different paths
9	2013	Dr. Robert Baughman, Profesor of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, USA	Sarcoidosis: Current perspectives
10	2016	Dr. Suman Laal, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, USA	Diagnosis of TB: progress, problems and potential