Dr.Sivabal V, Final Year Junior Resident, Department of Medicine, has been nominated as a winner of oral poster presentation of his dissertation work entitled 'Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and its association with cardiovascular disease' at the 44th Annual Conference of Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India-2016 (RSSDI-2016) held at Hyderabad from 18th to 20thNovember 2016. His work was also included for presentation as best free paper at the same conference. Dr.Sivabal V has been awarded with a cash prize and certificate for his presentation by the Honorary Secretary of RSSDI.

The paper was co-authored by Dr.M.Vadivelan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Dr.Abdoul Hamide, Professor (Senior Scale) & Head, Dept. of Medicine, Dr.A.Ramesh, Additional Professor, Dept. of Radiodiagnosis and Dr.G.P.Senthil Kumar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, JIPMER.