OUR TORCH BEARER
Dr Charandeep Singh Sahni did his MBBS from Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Hospital, Mumbai. He got distinction in biochemistry and pharmacology during MBBS course. He completed MD (Pathology) from Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.
EXPERIENCE
The Tata Memorial Hospital is the national comprehensive cancer centre for the prevention, treatment, education and research in cancer and is recognized as one of the leading cancer centers in this part of the world.
It is one of the largest cancer hospitals in South East Asia. The institute receives around 40,000 histopathology samples a year, which includes small biopsies (GIT, Lung, soft tissues, bone, lymph node and bone marrow biopsies) and large resected specimens.
Approximately 35–40 cryosections are performed daily. The department is well equipped with immunohistochemistry facility. Outside referral includes 8000 samples a year in the form of slides, blocks, biopsies and specimens. Cytology workload includes 10,000 FNAC samples a year.
Dr Charandeep Singh Sahni also worked as Senior Resident in Department of Histopathology at PGIMER, Chandigarh.
He has special interest in histopathology and cytology. He has special interest in oncopathology. He started his practice on 1st January, 2008 by starting the lab under the name of HELIX PATHLABS at Indus Super Speciality Hospital, Phase 1, Mohali.
PRESENTATIONS
- Presented a poster on “Aorto-Left Atrial Fistula” in APCON 2003 at Bhubaneswar.
- Presented a paper on “A Clinico-Pathological Analysis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Study of 173 cases” in APCON 2005 at Pune.
- Presented a paper on “Distribution, clinicopathological characteristics and immunophenotyping of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: A study of 313 cases using WHO classification (2000) in APCON 2006 at Bangalore
PUBLICATIONS
- Bothra R, Pai PS, Chaturvedi P, Majeed TA, Singh C, Gujral S, Kane SV. Follicular dendritic cell tumour of tonsil – is it an under-diagnosed entity? Indian J Cancer 2005; 42 (4): 211-4.
- Charandeep S Sahni, Sangeeta B. Desai. Distribution and Clinicopathological characteristics of non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma in India: A study of 935 cases using WHO classification of lymphoid neoplasms (2000). Leukemia and Lymphoma 2007; 48 (1): 122-133.
- Charandeep Sahni, Sangeeta Desai. Primary testicular precursor B-lymphoblastic lymphoma: A rare entity. Leukemia and Lymphoma 2007
CONFERENCE ATTENDED
- APCON 2003. 52nd Annual Conference of Indian Association Pathologists and Microbiologists held at Bhubaneswar in December 2003.
- XXII CME and PG Course in Pathology held at JN Medical College, Belgaum in June 2004.
- APCON 2004. 53rd Annual Conference of Indian Association Pathologists and Microbiologists held at Pune in November 2004.
- Workshop on the Molecular Basis of Hemato-Oncology held in Mumbai in October 2006.
- APCON 2006. 55th Annual Conference of Indian Association Pathologists and Microbiologists held at Banglore in December 2006.
Evidence Based Diagnostic Pathology at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai in 2005 and 2006.