Theme: 360 Degrees

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Pope Paul Auditorium
St Johns Medical College Road
Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560034
India

Anil Abraham

Dermatologist+Director+Improv artist

Dr. Anil Abraham is the former Professor and Head of Dermatology at St. John’s Medical College. He won the Pope Paul Award for Best Graduate and the Katariya Gold Medal for Best Postgraduate with over 11 University Gold Medals. He subsequently trained at Stanford University , USA and was also a Rotary Exchange student to Birmingham. He has more than thirty years of teaching experience and has often been voted among the best teachers of the institution. He has simultaneously indulged in his passion for theatre with performances with the likes of Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq and the ART production of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has written and directed the hilarious play ‘ Gentlemen’ which has been performed to full houses in Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkatta and Mumbai. .

Anshu Pandey

Professor

Anshu Pandey did his Masters in Chemistry from IIT-Bombay, and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He works at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His current interests are in the areas of nano-materials and spectroscopy

Antony Robert

Paediatric and neonatal surgeon

Dr Antony Robert Charles is a paediatric and neonatal surgeon, based in bangalore, working for the KinderSurge Group. He is an alumnus of St Johns where he passed out as the best outgoing student winning the Pope Paul Prize. He continued his Surgical training at the Tata Memorial Hospital in mumbai and finished at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi. He subsequently worked at the Children hospital at Westmead, Sydney where he won the prestigious Lorimer Dodd Best Surgical teacher award two years in a row. Started career in St John's medical college and moved onto work in the private sector. He has a keen interest in neonatal and paediatric urological surgery. He was part of the Tsunami relief emergency team from St Johns to the Nicobar islands and has a keen interest in Medical Ethics. Identifying himself as a Surgical philosopher, he finds his work here unfinished and strives through his discontentment to reach the elusive horizon.

Beard Of Harmony

Musical artists and vocalists

Beard Of Harmony is a duo based in Bangalore, composed of Sreejith ‘The Beard’ Nair on vocals and acoustic guitar and Ruben Simon on another vocal and another acoustic guitar. Sreejith’s strident and deep tone handles the ‘main’ vocals that push the lyrics of the music, Ruben’s more reedy, melody-oriented voice usually handles the harmonies, and there are points on their albums where the singing is so clear and the two so locked in that your brain can’t tell that there is more than one incredibly versatile voice.

Harish Bhuvan

Therapeutic Clown - Trainer - Counsellor - Life-Coach

Harish Bhuvan is a therapeutic clown and believes in using humour and spontaneity to facilitate the process of holistic healing and wellbeing of individuals in need. Having a degree in psychology from Christ University, Bengaluru allows him to analyse human behaviour and suggest mechanisms for adaptive and healthy functioning. This ignited the beginning of a whole new and unique concept of pop-up counselling. Additionally, he has also acquired professional skills at delivering NLP techniques (trained under NLP Master Practitioner in Christ University) using hypnosis in therapies (certified and trained under the leadership of the past president, Mrs Radha C Mohan, ISCEH) and training children especially those diagnosed with dyslexia (under DR JP Das, Director, J.P Das Developmental Disabilities Centre, University of Alberta, Canada). These made him proficient to open his own Counselling centre too.

Kirtana Kumar

Actor, director, dramaturg and Film-maker

Kirtana Kumar is an actor, director, dramaturg and an award winning film-maker. She trained and performed as an actor with The Asian-American Theatre Project at The Los Angeles Theatre Centre (LATC) and has a Master’s Degree in European Classics and American Literature. Her abiding interest is in creating new works with her company, Little Jasmine, with an emphasis on indigenous forms, texts, visuals, sounds, ideas used as a lens for contemporary concerns.

Kit Patrick

Philosophy of science, epistemology of law, geology and ethics

Dr Kit Patrick teaches philosophy at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. He was educated at Cambridge and Bristol universities in England, and moved to India two years ago. His main research focuses on how scientists reason. Outside of this, he has interests in economics, law and ethics. In his spare time he runs the History of India podcast.

Lizzy Chittilapilly

Doctor

After completing MBBS in St John's, this religious sister found her calling in a remote village in Uttar Pradesh. Over the past 26 years, she has single-handedly started an entire hospital from scratch. And therefore greatly improved the lives of all the people living in the nearby villages especially the women and children. She is the resident doctor at Our Lady Of Grace's Hospital in Sardhana and is now trained in Obstetrics and gynaecology. She performs all the deliveries, surgeries and ultrasounds for women from 128 neighbouring villages.

Sachin Samson

Visual Artist

Sachin Samson’s life as an artist began in Kochi Kerala, where he used to draw and paint with his father. He soon discovered the discipline he wanted to get into - animation and visual art. Today he is proficient in painting, electronic art, animation, clay and mental sculpting. He aims to improve his sketching and storytelling narratives through his art and discover more about himself.

Smriti Rana

Palliative Care Professional

Smriti Rana is the Director of Projects and Programmes at Pallium India, a charitable trust dedicated to integrating palliative care into healthcare across India through delivery of services, education, building capacities, policy, research, advocacy and information.Within Pallium India, Smriti oversees the programs and projects run by the organisation, including National Outreach, gender equity in healthcare, children’s palliative care and several others, apart from training and mentorship programmes. Smriti has a special interest in caregiver empowerment, addiction issues, global dynamics in drug control policies and health equity, and advocacy for advance medical directives.