Notre Dame Assistant Provost for Internationalization Visits India Gateway
Warren von Eschenbach, associate vice president and assistant provost for internationalization at Notre Dame, and Dhiraj Mehra, Notre Dame's director of initiatives in India, visited the Ohio State India Gateway on January 12, 2018. The meeting was held to discuss various collaborative projects, and to strengthen the university's existing partnerships in India, build new opportunities across the country and work closely with different centres, institutes and colleges to increase engagement opportunities with India.
Priya Kurle, assistant director of the Ohio State India Gateway, arranged and facilitated the engagement and will play a key role in upcoming joint projects.
Women in STEM Roadshow Success for India
Over 360 young women participated in nine Women in STEM Roadshow workshops in Delhi, Kolkata, Patna, Hyderabad, Kurnool and Aligarh, India, in February 2018. The goals of the workshops were to strengthen ties between the United States and India, create awareness for young women on higher education opportunities in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields and encourage more Indian students to consider higher education opportunities in the United States by interacting with university alumni in India and promoting Education USA.

Each workshop focused on STEM fields from international and local experts, teaching and learning pedagogies, hands-on electronic experience including Education USA programs and connections to the Roadshow Network. Workshop participants created relationships with women in STEM fields who will mentor and encourage young, female students to be involved in STEM fields.

The workshops were organized by the U.S. Mission India Public Diplomacy Grants Program, the U.S. Department of State, and Ohio State professors Sultana Nahar, Anil Pradhan, Karen Irving and Director of Intalage Inc. Nasreen Haque through a grant from the U.S. Consulate New Delhi.

Priya Kurle, assistant director of the Ohio State India Gateway, coordinated and arranged these workshops.
Crouser Completes Medical Training in Mumbai
Seth Crouser, a medical student at The Ohio State University, completed training at Seth G.S. Medical College and King Edward VI Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India from February 5-23, 2018. 

At King Edward VI Memorial Hospital, Crouser worked with the department of Ayuveda under Nirmala Rege, head of pharmacology and therapeutics, and her team who has researched various Ayurvedic herbs and its effects on humans. At the Ayurveda Research Centre, Crouser was actively engaged in the research activities pertaining to the traditional system of medicine. 

Crouser spent two weeks of his research period working with S. R. Parkar, head of the Department of Psychiatry. He gained understanding and knowledge by observing patients, symptoms and treatment as well as learning about and conducting alcohol group therapy, narcotic group therapy, community awareness programs, community drug addiction development programs and structured recreational activities. 

The Ohio State India Gateway Assistant Director Priya Kurle facilitated the elective training opportunity and Administrative Manager Vinod Rani organized the logistical support for Crouser's visit.
Chandrasekaran Conducts Executive Excellence Program in India
Arvind Chandrasekaran, Fisher College of Business associate professor and Center for Operational Excellence associate director, conducted a two day executive excellence training program for Tata Group senior executives in Pune at the Tata Management Training Centre in February 2018. More than 25 senior leaders from Tata Group attended this program. 

Designed specifically for senior executives, it provides a framework, and a systems approach, necessary to make and sustain performance gains across an organization. From developing sound strategy to setting expectations, to organizing and energizing resources, the program encourages leaders to embrace their roles in order for the company to achieve "execution excellence" across the organization. The four subsystems-problem-solving, daily management, strategic alignment and people development-can all be improved through communication and collaboration. At the end of the two days, the participants developed skills, which could be useful to design, develop and measure their performance on these systems for their respective organization. 

Manoj Garai, the Ohio State India Gateway international corporate manager and Priya Kurle, assistant director, facilitated the visit.
Fisher College of Business Collaborates with Mahindra & Mahindra
The Ohio State Fisher College of Business will partner with Mahindra & Mahindra to train their senior executives in a variety of areas including data analysis and operational excellence. The collaboration will be formalized through a memorandum of understanding. 

Peter Ward, associate dean, and Aravind Chandrasekaran, associate professor, with the Fisher College of Business, Harsh Kumar, director, and Rajinder Singh, executive dean of Mahindra Institute of Quality, met in February 2018 to discuss the possibility of Ohio State providing various customized training and certification programs for the company. 

This partnership is an integrated approach to promote the excellence of training across processes and operations of a business and facilitates the adoption of a specific management framework and internationally accepted practices. 

Mahindra & Mahindra is India's premier utility vehicle company for more than 68 years. It offers a wide range of mobility products and solutions ranging from SUVs, electric vehicles, pickups and commercial vehicles, small aircrafts and boats. 

Manoj Garai, international corporate manager, and Priya Kurle, assistant director of the Ohio State India Gateway facilitated the visit.
Wexner Medical Center Partners with Nanavati Hospital
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center conducted an Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery workshop at Nanavati Hospital on March 9 - 11, 2018. Ricardo Carrau, MD, Comprehensive Skull Base Surgery program director, and Daniel Prevedello, MD, Minimally Invasive Cranial Surgery program director, with the Wexner Medical Center, highlighted lectures and interactive discussions, live surgery and cadaveric prosections of skull base endoscopic surgeries. 

The main objectives of this workshop were to understand the anatomy of the sinonasal tract, orbit and ventral skull base from the endoscopic perspective, discuss the indications as limitations of endoscopic endonasal surgery of the pituitary fossa, orbit, skull base and craniovertebral junction, understand the exposure offered by endonasal versus open approaches and how to choose the approach and identify how to avoid and treat complications of endoscopic skull base surgery. 

Many neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neuro-oncologists across India participated in this workshop including Chandrashekhar Deopujari, MD, of Bombay Hospital, Deepu Banerji, MD, of Fortis Hospital, Prathamesh Pai, MD, of Tata Memorial Hospital, Renuka Bradoo, MD, of Sion Hospital, Narayan Jayashankar, MD and Suresh Sankhla, MD of Nanavati Hospital and others. 

This partnership will further lead to start TeleStroke consultation, an approach for neurologists to provide remote treatment to stroke victims, with Ohio State. Priya Kurle, assistant director of the Ohio State India Gateway facilitated the visit.
Mumbai Buckeyes Participate in India Alumni Recruitment Training
The Ohio State India Gateway hosted an India Buckeye Alumni Recruitment training led by Marco Chavez, senior assistant director of Enrollment Services, on February 9, 2018. 

Chavez presented background information about international undergraduate student recruitment, admissions and the Student Calling Project, which encourages alumni to engage with recently admitted students and their parents to answer questions and share their own experience as a Buckeye. Two alumni, Radhika Sadana and Karan Bhasin, gained first-hand experience in speaking to students with the Student Calling Project at the training. 

In spring semester 2018, there were 546 students from India enrolled at Ohio State.
Ohio State to Bring Digital Pathology to Nanavati Hospital
Anjali Satoskar, associate professor of pathology, and Abhay Satoskar, professor of experimental pathology and microbiology, visited Nanavati Hospital on March 10 and met Chief Operating Officer Rajendra Patankar to collaborate in digital pathology. Ohio State will bring Mumbai's first digital pathology system to Nanavati Hospital which will enable doctors to send patient reports to specialists around the world. 

The digital pathology team will use high-capacity scanners to convert traditional glass slides into high-resolution digital images. The digital pathology process begins with scanning conventional glass slides and digitally joining consecutive images into a single image, replicating the information on the glass slide. Once the images are converted into millions of pixels, they are transferred onto specially designed desktop systems that enable pathologists to review image details comprehensively, share images for second opinions and report findings to a patient's team of physicians. These enhanced images can be viewed and interpreted on a computer by multiple people across multiple locations simultaneously. The images can also be paired with other clinical information to give pathologists a unified picture of each person's unique cancer. 

Priya Kurle, assistant director of the Ohio State India Gateway, arranged the visit and initiated the collaboration.
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