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Biography

- Developed the first skin bank in Central India in 2011 at CH&RC;
- Training the harvesting teams of upcoming skin banks;
- Burn fellowship program since 2011. Have trained 28 fellows in Burn care;
- Senior Surgeon with expertise in Breast, wounds, and anal diseases.
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Speciality

General Surgery and Burn Surgery
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Experience (In years)

46 Years
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Fields of Expertise

- Burn Surgery, prevention, and rehabilitation;
- Skin Banking;
- Have conducted training programs in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia;
- Breast diseases;
- Diabetic foot;
- Hemorrhoids, fistula, fissure, and pilonidal sinus.
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Fellow Membership

- Founder secretary of the Indore chapter of Burns Association of India;
- Honorary member of the South African Burn Society.
- Honorary member of the European Pediatric Burn Association;
- Past President of National Burns Academy India;
- Founder President of Burn Care Foundation, Indore;
- Co-Founder, Inter burns;
- Past Regional representative for SEA nominated by ISBI;
- Past President Associations of Surgeons of Indore;
- Director Inter burns training center, Indore.
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Past Positions

- Registrar in General Surgery 1978-79, Jain Clinic Group of Hospital Bombay;
- Senior Registrar in Surgery 1979-1981, Choithram Hospital & Research Center, Indore;
- Full-time Consultant in Surgery 1981-1988, C.H.R.C. Indore. Senior consultant in Surgery from 1988 till date, C.H.R.C. Indore;
- Chief of Burns Unit, CHRC, Indore from 2000.
-Founder Secretary of the Burns Assoc of India, Indore branch;
- Founder President of Burn Care Foundation, Indore;
-Director Inter Burns Training Center, Indore, India,
- International Network for Training, Education, and Research in Burns;
- Past President of the National Academy of Burns India.
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Publications

- A retrospective analysis of early excision and skin grafting from 1993-95. Burns,1998, 24, 177-180;
- Prospective controlled trial of Nitrogen Laser on infected wounds. Laser and Technology, 1996, vol 6, 35-40;
- Epidemiology of pediatric burns in Indore, India Burns,2001, 27-1, 33-38;
- Problems of managing burns in a private hospital. Agnivarta, march 2001;
- Heterograft in Major Burns. Indian Journal of Surgery Sept 2002;
- Retrospective analysis of incidence and outcome of patients developing Multidrug resistant infection in our burn unit; Indian Journal of Burns, vol13, no 1,2005;
- Tracheal stenosis in post-burn patients. Indian Journal of Burns, Vol 13/no01/2005;
- Tiny steps towards climbing the mountain, letter to the editor. Indian Journal of Burns, vol13, no1, 2005;
- In vitro effect of Nitrogen and He-Ne laser on the apoptosis of human polymorphonuclear cells and effect of Nitrogen Laser on the infected burn wounds. Indian Journal of Wound Management, Vol. 1 Number 2 2006 1-15;
- Potokar T S, Ali S, Chamania S, Prowse S, Whitaker I S. A global overview of burns research: A 10-year analysis of 1321 original articles in Burns from 1996 -2006; highlighting the need for developing burns;
- networks with the developing world. Burns, 2007;
- Ali S, Potokar T S, Chamania S, Lohana P, Price P, Whitaker I S. A novel, effective escharotomy simulator and trainee assessment. Burns, 2007;
- Inter burns publication in IJPS;
- Contributed to a chapter on Childhood Burn prevention in India, for publication in a textbook on Pediatric Burn management edited by Hanuma Dass and Mathangi Ramakrishnan;
- Burn care and training in Rural India, IJPS, Sept 2010;
- Pauliene Jetten, S Chamania: Burn prevention intervention evaluation, Burns.2010 June;
- Contributed to WHO publication on Burn Prevention, Success Stories Lessons Learned, 2011;
- Chamania Set al Pilot project in rural western Madhya Pradesh to assess the feasibility of using LED and solar-powered lanterns to remove kerosene lamps and related hazards from homes. Burns, Vol 41, Issue 3, May 2015, Pages 595-603;
- Jagnoor, J, Bekker, S., Chamania, S., Potokar, T., Ivers, R., Identifying priority policy issues and health system research questions associated with recovery outcomes for burns survivors in India: a qualitative inquiry. BMJ Open (accepted 7 Feb 2018);
- “Tom Potokar” t.s.potokar@swansea.ac.uk, “Richard Bendell” richard.m.bendell@gmail.com, “Shobha Chamania” shobhachamania@gmail.com, “Sian Falder” sian@csj.myzen.co.uk, “Richard Nnabuko” richard.nnabuko@npmcn.edu.ng A Comprehensive, Integrated Approach to Quality Improvement & Capacity Building in Burn Care and Prevention in Challenging Environments: an overview. Burns open access, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2020.05.029;
- Contributed a chapter in the Indian Plastic Surgery textbook, Burns vol: Epidemiology and demography of burns in low and middle-income Countries 2020;
- IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON GLOBAL BURN CARE has been accepted for publication by Burns Nov 2021.
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Awards and Recognitions

- Oration Nabicon, Bhimandas Bilwani, 2018;
- Oration Phoolan Devi Gupta, Nabicon, 2007;
- LNJP Professorship oration 2019, at NABICON;
- Invited faculty at Skin Banking Symposium at PGI, Chandigarh, 2017;
- Invited faculty at Sion Hospital Burn update, 2017;
- Nabicon 2019 Prayagraj. Antibiotic stewardship in Burns;
- Invited orator at Pediatric Burn Surgery, Zurich University Nov 2019;
- Decorated with Zora Janzecovich award by the World Congress of European Club for pediatric burns, August 2023, Toronto;
- Invited faculty at several international burn webinars.
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Appointment Days and Timings

TUE & THU (9:30 AM - 1:00 PM)