President's Message

Dear MRA members,
Warm greetings to MRA members.

In three years, the speed of MRA has grown into a tiny plant nurtured by the vision and hard work of the previous Executive Committee particularly Dr. Nachiket, the secretary, and the president, Dr. Kalke. We recently had a well-attended conference at Solapur which was a feature in the cap of MRA. Kudos to Dr. Mukund Ray and Mohini Ganu for the same.

The present committee is keep to work towards further growth of MRA. This can only happen with contributions from our talented and enthusiastic members. We invite the participation of all members to increase the outreach of MRA all over Maharashtra in terms of both academics and research.

All of us have a lot of clinical material but unfortunately do not publish enough. In the past two decades, Maharashtra has remained in the shadows on the national scene due to this.

The intended activities for the next two years are as follows:
1) Increase in publications by collating data through the formation of a split in groups
2) Publishing DNB DM thesis
3) Encouraging Multicenter clinical research by fellows & its publication
4) Increasing awareness of rheumatology amongst doctors through CMEs and for PG students through lecture series.
5) Increasing patient awareness through the website.
6) Revival of fellows teaching program

I would like to request all of you to share your opinion about our planned online academic activities for our fellows. Please post your suggestions so that we can incorporate them same.

I once again extend warm greetings to all of you and wish you a happy festive season. With the cooperation of all our members, I sincerely hope that MRA becomes an organization we can be proud of.

Regards,
Dr. Rohini Samant