Venue

The Ramada Jarvis hotel, also known as the Grand hotel, is located in the Leicester city centre. Trendy bars, excellent Asian food and great shopping are on your doorstep. Further afield, visit the National Space Centre three miles from the hotel or explore Leicestershire countryside in Bradgate Park nine miles away.
Relax with cocktails under chandeliers and classical columns in the Lounge Bar. There is onsite parking, the East Midlands Airport is 26 miles away and the main railway station is only a short distance away. Belgrave Road, the UK's longest Asian shopping street, and Asian Restaurants of London Road are within a mile.

Facilities available:

104 bedrooms
Summit Conference Centre
Largest meeting room holds 450
Club Restaurant and Club Bar
The Lounge
Parking for 120 cars
Located in Leicester Centre
Conference halls:

Kings Hall and Queens Hall:
These grand rooms have their own private entrance and can accommodate 450 and 320 delegates respectively for a conference.

Alexandra, Tudor, Charnwood and Empress Rooms:
A stylish suite of rooms that offers a number of options to suit the needs of conference organisers. The Charnwood can accommodate 80 delegates; with the Empress, Alexandra and Tudor accommodating 60 delegates each. The Charnwood, Empress and Tudor Rooms each have air-conditioning.

Cromwell Room:
This oak panelled Summit Room can comfortably seat 100 delegates and is equipped with air conditioning.
http://www.ramadajarvis.co.uk/hotels/leicester.aspx

N.B. As we need extra rooms to suit our requirements, we booked additional accommodation at Premier Inn hotel as well, which is across the road from Ramada Jarvis. They will keep our booking open till end of March 2010. We have to surrender the un-booked rooms by that date. Hence, we would like to request you to register with us at the earliest possibility and inform us your choice of accommodation, either Ramada Jarvis or Premier Inn. We will honour your wishes on first come first served basis.

Invited Faculty

Dr Nori Dattatreyudu M.D., FACR, FACRO, Professor and Executive Vice Chairman of the Radiation Oncology Department at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. In addition, Dr. Nori is Chairman of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Cancer Center at the New York Hospital Queens, in which capacity he heads that organization's cancer program. Dr. Nori completed his undergraduate training at Kurnool Medical College (1971) and received his postgraduate medical degree from Osmania University (1976).

Dr. Madhusudan Rao Chittaloor, MBBS from Kurnool medical college (1981), MS (ENT) (1986) from Postgraduate institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, established endoscopic surgical and micro ear surgeries in the township of Nandyal, Kurnool district. He is well known in educational, philanthrophic and cultural fields. They conducted various cultural activities in the fields of drama and dance and won several state and national level competitions.
We are planning to bring a cinema star from Tollywood.

 

Sceintific Programme

Speakers confirmed to date are:

Dr Dattatreyudu Nori : Advances in prostatic surgery
Dr Madhusudhan Rao Chittaloor: Advances in Endoscopic sinus surgery
Mr Madhava Rao Vempali : Recent advances in Opthalmology
Dr Jyothi Nippani: 'Hot flushes' what do we do?

Entertainment

We planned the following events on the occasion of our Silver jubilee meeting. The success of the programme will depend upon your participation. Please feel free to contact us with your suggestions. Your input will be much appreciated.

Please send your nominations for taking part in the activities below by contacting the cultural secretaries/ Convener. Entry is free. This is your/our function.

Cultural Events:

1. Telugu Tene palukulu: Entry for children up to the age of 18.

We have three prizes in this category. We would like this competition to be an enjoyable experience for your kids, besides encouraging their fluency in speaking our mother tongue. So encourage your kids to participate.

The means of testing will be in the form of:
a) Showing a picture and asking the student to tell that word in Telugu,
b) Translation of simple words from English to Telugu.
A bowl will contain pictures or English words which could be Numbers 1-10, Days of the week and other common words. If they pick a picture they have to tell the corresponding Telugu word. If they pick an English word they have to tell the corresponding Telugu word.
In each round the contestant will be given two (2) choices. If they pass the first choice, they move to the next round. If they miss the first choice, they will be given 2nd choice.
c) Speech/Elocution - Speak about a topic given at the time for a minimum of 1 minute to a maximum of 2 minutes.
Points of scoring will be based on pronunciation, tense, sentence structure, completion within time and relevance to the topic.

2. “AMGR has got talent!”

Yes, by all means ! Show us what you have got!!!
You can perform any item you are proficient with. Preferably, reflecting Telugu / Indian culture.
These are the guidelines (which are subject to change):
Group performances or single performances are acceptable
An individual cannot participate in more than one performance.
Example: Dancing and singing performances, could be other performances as well.
The act cannot be more than 5-6 minutes long. If you need more time, you will need to get approval from the cultural committee.
If interested, you need to submit a 3 minute video of your act. You can email, or mail the video to the convener/ cultural committee.
All participants MUST REGISTER for the Event.
The cultural committee reserves the right to accept or reject an act.

3. Fashion show: We are planning a Fashion show on this occasion. We are thinking of themes related to India. We request the participants to get in touch with us in advance. Vinjamuri Ragasudha garu kindly accepted to choreograph and direct the show. Aiyeppas Sarees from Leicester agreed to sponsor the fashion show. We are open to your suggestions as well.

4. Songs and Dances: Please let us know about your participation.

5. Drama: Dr. Vikekananda murthy garu has been active with his team for performing a memorable event on this special occasion. We are sure, this will be brilliant.

6. Career Networking for Youth: Interested Specialist Registrars and Consultants will provide guidance at the meeting for the youth if they need any clarification with their career paths. Dr. Jack Srinivas will look after the event
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7. Women’s forum

8. Photography and painting and crafts exhibition: I know there are many members in our organisation with keen interest in above mentioned fields. We will be arranging a photo exhibition besides painting and crafts show on the first day of the reunion function.

Literary Contributions

You can send your mails in Telugu or English, as you wish.
This is your/our section.

Please send your contributions for the magazine to Dr Bapuji Rao garu on bvelaga@btinternet.com.

Dr Velagapudi Bapuji Rao garu has kindly agreed to produce this year's magazine as well. Please send in your contributions to the magazine to Dr Bapuji Rao garu by 30th March 2010. As this is the Silver Jubilee year of AMGR, we expect to come out with a spectacular magazine. Please send in any pictures that evoke nostalgia, memories / events of your experience over the years you spent over here, your achievements / awards and any charitable work & contributions and any articles, photos and information on Kurnool medical college / Sri Venkateswara Medical college will be gracefully received.