KIMS Rheumatologist Showcases Indian Research, Leads Digital Health Team at Seoul, South Korea

Prof. Sakir Ahmed, Rheumatologist at KIMS, was invited to Seoul, South Korea to talk on telemedicine to the Asia Pacific League against Rheumatology annual meeting. He talked on the rising importance of telerheumatology and presented work done by his team across Asia-Pacific and in India in particular.

He conducted a workshop on AI usage for Rheumatologists along with other experts in the field such as Dr. Anindita Santosa (Singapore); Prof Rebecca Grainger (New Zealand); and Dr. Lisa Trabacco (Philippines). Besides the invited talk, he presented three other research works such as Development and Validation of the Reactive Arthritis and Peripheral Spondyloarthritis Activity Score (RAPSAS); Manual Assessment of Explainable AI using Large Language Models based Agents to Diagnose Rheumatoid Arthritis and Effectiveness and Safety of Sequential Therapy of Infliximab and Tofacitinib in Axial Spondyloarthritis. These Research works were carried out in the department collaborating with other Schools of KIIT University, as well as national institutes like various AIIMS branches, PGIMER Chandigarh, NIMS Hyderabad, and others. Finally, he had taken over as the chair for the APLAR Digital Health Special Interest Group (SIG) and presided over its business meeting.

Dr. Sakir expressed his thankfulness to Prof. Prasanta Padhan (Rheumatology); Dr Murari Mandal (Computer Engineering), and the collaborators from other institutes for these research works. He also extended gratitude to The Founder, KIIT, KISS and KIMS for making such collaborative and inter-disciplinary research possible.