Global REACH: India Platform
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Welcome to India

Learn more about our partnering collaborators in India.

Overview

The India Platform spans a number of multi-disciplinary partnerships across some of the country’s leading institutions. The University of Michigan’s relationship with All India Institute of Medical Science, in New Delhi, stretches back to 2011 with more recent collaborations with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, in Kochi, and Manipal University, in Udupi City.

Partnerships focus on trauma and surgery, antimicrobial resistance, genetic research of developmental disorders, and more. Michigan Medicine’s Kellogg Eye Center has a longstanding relationship with India’s unique Aravind Eye Care Center and the Global Surgery Center recently entered into a new partnership with GVK, India’s primary ambulance service provider, that will focus on emergency response training.

Platform Leads
Krishnan Raghavendran Krishnan Raghavendran, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
vineet Chopra Vineet Chopra
Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine
Platform at a Glance

Partner Institutions:
All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi
Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Kochi
Manipal University, Udupi City
Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai

Activities:
Capacity Building
Research Training
Student Exchange

Platform Leads:
Krishnan Raghavendran, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Primary Focus Areas:
Emergency Medicine
Trauma Surgery
Oncology
Ophthalmology

Featured Collaborations
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GVK Partnership

GVK Partnership
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Aravind Training Partnership

Aravind Training Partnership

Publications with Collaborators in India
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View a list of publications authored by Global REACH Faculty Network members with collaborators from India in the 22-23 academic year. Throughout the year, more than 100 Global REACH Faculty Associates (from the medical school) and Faculty Affiliates (from other health science disciplines) published 384 papers with foreign co-authors, including about 30 with colleagues in India.

View all Countries' Publications from 2022-23

India Platform News See all news Man smiling and wearing a dark blazer and tie leaning against a metal railing in a building
Medical School News
COVID-eo Conference: How a U-M physician helped care for patients in India during the pandemic
Krishnan Raghavendran used the videoconference tools popularized during the pandemic to help colleagues in India care for their most difficult COVID cases.
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Medical School News
New Training Grant Finds Kellogg Eye Center Partnering With India’s Leading Eye Hospital
A new NIH-funded project supports partnership between Kellogg Eye Center and Aravind Eye Hospital to develop a clinical research training program.
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Department News
'Delighted with our progress': Pediatric cardiology training program grows in Rwanda
What Professor of Pediatrics David Bradley started in 2022 has grown into a sustainable program, with the first trainee nearing graduation and others close behind in a growing pipeline.
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Department News
New surgery fellowship program in Ghana marks first graduation
A fellowship program to train Ghanaian colorectal surgeons has produced its first graduate and is expanding with continued support from Michigan Medicine and others.
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Medical School News
Reconnecting with Brazilian Researchers to Discuss Spinal Cord Injury Collaboration
A UMMS professor with long history of collaboration in Brazil used a recent international meeting to reconnect with partners there.