Karthikeyan Pethusamy

Dr. Karthikeyan Pethusamy had completed his MBBS with 3 distinctions and a gold medal in Medicine from Kanyakumari Government Medical College, Nagercoil, Tamilnadu.

After MBBS, He took M.D. Biochemistry because of the passion towards the subject. He was the first one to take M.D. Biochemistry in All India Counseling 2012. He has joined AIIMS as an SR and PhD scholar after completing his MD from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. He did his M.D. thesis under the mentorship of Dr. Sarita Agarwal on the effect of inflammatory gene polymorphisms in stroke. Currently, he is studying the epigenetic changes in AML under the mentorship of Dr. Subhradip Karmakar.

He is popular among his students in MAMC as well as AIIMS for his clarity and student-friendly method of teaching. His grip on all subjects is firm, and he brings it into the teaching of the subject of his choice – Biochemistry. He is also actively engaged in teaching students in virtual platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook. He has authored and contributed to many exam-oriented Biochemistry books. Recently, he has been acknowledged in the 31st edition of the Harper’s illustrated Biochemistry textbook for his suggestions and correction.

Besides Biochemistry, he loves nature. He has been riding bicycle to commute around for the past 10 years and motivates others to do the same. During his tenure, as Green Care Secretary of Kanyakumari Government Medical College, he was instrumental in planting around 1000 trees in his vast college campus.

He is an active contributor to Tamil Wikipedia and Quora. Making free YouTube videos to facilitate the learning of Biochemistry, writing scientific books in Tamil and starting an NGO that will work for environmental conservation projects are some of his dream projects.

Prizes, Medals & Awards:

 

  • FIRST prize in essay and elocution competitions in both state and national level
  • BEST OUTGOING STUDENT (Gold Medalist) in Internal Medicine during MBBS (2011)
  • FIRST PRIZE in North Zone AMBI Quiz competition (2014)
  • THIRD PRIZE in the poster presentation competition conducted by AMBI-Delhi chapter CME – “Metabolic syndrome & Tumor markers”- What’s the latest?” (2014)
  • BEST Journal Club Presentation award, Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi (2017)

Membership of Scientific Society etc.:

 

  • Life time member of Association of Medical Biochemists of India (AMBI)
  • Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences (MNAMS)

Research Publications:

1.      Montosh Chakraborty, Shivakrishna Gouroju, Pinki Garg, Karthikeyan P, Prerna Singh. CBL in Medical Education Effective Learning Methodology than PBL. Int J Intg Med Sci 2015, Vol 2(8):140-50.

 

2.      Montosh Chakraborty, Shivakrishna Gouroju, Pinki Garg, Karthikeyan P. PBL: An Effective Method of Reinforcement Learning. Int J Intg Med Sci 2015, Vol 2(6):134-38.

3.      Pinky Garg, Saroj Choudhary, MontoshChakraborty, Karthikeyan P. Indices of Oxidative Stress and Liver Injury in Alcoholic Liver Disease. Int J Intg Med Sci 2017, Vol 4(5):488-92. ISSN 2394 – 4137.

 

4.      Dhar R; Seethy A; Pethusamy K; Singh S; Rohil V; et al. “De novo genome assembly of the Indian Blue Peacock (Pavo cristatus), from Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing” GigaScience http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100559

5.      Montosh Chakraborty, Prerna Singh, Jyothi Maria Prameela D’souza, Karthikeyan Pethuswamy. Fasting and postprandial lipid parameters: A comparative evaluation of cardiovascular risk assessment in prediabetes and diabetes. J Lab Physicians. (in print)

6.      Karthikeyan Pethusamy, Maheshwari Kulandhasamy, Ashikh Seethy, Pinky Garg, Sarita Agarwal et al. Effects of 469 E/K polymorphism of ICAM1 gene in patients of ischemic stroke and its association with stroke severity and outcome – A case control study. (Under communication)

 

Book chapters:

               

  • 9 chapters in Springer Nature – Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior

Remarkable academic contributions

  1. Contributed 4 teaching modules to the ePGPathsala, a Human Resource Development Ministry initiative under its National Mission on Education through ICT NMEICT.
  2. Contributing to SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active learning for Young Aspiring Minds), initiated by Government of India with the aim of providing opportunities for a lifelong learning.
  3. Imparting knowledge to students through YouTube channel with around 4000 subscribers and Facebook page with around 5,700 subscribers.
  4. Acknowledged in the Harper Biochemistry 31st edition for the corrections and suggestions

Karthikeyan’s Virtual presence: