Senior Post Graduate Registrar
Christian Medical College and Hospital
Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
I am Dr. Adrian Keith Noronha, a full time ID Enthusiast, working as a Registrar in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the prestigious Christian Medical College, Vellore. What drove me to enter into this field was the stark lack of awareness of this fields existence in our country. Of course, COVID made the world realise that ID is the in-thing today, tomorrow and forever.
I completed my undergraduation in Stanley Medical College, Chennai and subsequently went on to do my post-graduation in Internal Medicine from JIPMER, Puducherry. A brief stint as a Consultant in Critical Care followed which opened my eyes to the vastness of the field of Infectious Diseases. From there on, I decided to take a plunge and delve into the depths and breadths of our amazing field.
As a trainee in Infectious Diseases, what I enjoy the most is the variety of cases we get to see in our clinics and the sound clinical approach needed to solve many of these mysteries. I love my bedside rounds, interacting with patients and their caregivers and enjoy sending them home with a smile on their faces. As we know, the limit of knowledge in ID is the sky and beyond and I have a keen interest in learning as well as sharing knowledge among colleagues, peers and spreading the same to my juniors as well.
What started out as an interest, grew into a passion and has now become one of the joys of living. Working under my mentor, Dr. Priscilla has been an amazing and pleasurable experience and has given me so many more insights to look forward to in the future. I am looking forward to learning something new each day and hopefully some day, I will make a contribution of some sort to help ID physicians worldwide.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM US ET