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Dr Anoof.P.P is an alumni of Govt Medical College Calicut where he did his M.B.B.S (Sept 1995-April 2002) He worked in the emergency medicine in National Hospital Calicut (May 2002-May 2004).He received his MD in internal medicine from Kasturba Medical College Manipal (June 2004-April 2007).He worked as consultant Physician in Tirur Mission Hospital,Malappuram(May 2007-August 2007 )and worked as Senior Registrar in the dept of medicine deputed to Rheumatology wing at MIMS Calicut (Sept 2007-March 2008) He completed Post Doctoral Fellowship Training(2 yr duration)in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology from Christian Medical College Vellore, a 2000 bedded tertiary care teaching hospital (2008-2010).He underwent Fellowship in Rheumatology (June2011 –August2011)at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, United Kingdom. During the Post Doctoral Fellowship Training at CMC,Vellore he was involved in the care of patients in a 24 bedded Rheumatology ward and worked in Physical Medicines and Rehabilitation dept, Occupational therapy, and laboratories of Autoantibody, HLA, and clinical pathology. He gained knowledge in musculoskeletal USG, and done a short course in biostatistics and clinical epidemiology.

He worked as a Senior Consultant in the Dept of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at Aster MIMS Calicut and Aster MIMS kottakkal. He has many publications, a few of them are (1) Traditional and inflammation related cardiovascular risk factors in Rheumatoid arthritis-Indian journal of Rheumatology 9(2014)2-3 (2) Unusual case of Polyarthritis-Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis-CALFIM Journal of Internal Medicine(Volume3,No.2 December 2007), (3) A review article on Management of connective tissue disease related interstitial lung disease in IRACON 2009 Souvenir. He has attended as a faculty and as a delegate in more than 50 National and International Conferences and meetings and presented many papers. He is recipient of Indo-UK Rheumatology Fellowship 2011(supported by Indian Rheumatology Association and Indo-UK Rheumatology Forum). He attended EULAR Congress held in London in May 25-28 of 2011 and done an advanced training in Rheumatology from Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals. United Kingdom and attended many workshops related to Rheumatology

He has taken active part in Departmental audit meetings and clinical governance, and in organizing Multi disciplinary clinics with different specialties, and organizing monthly symposiums and CMEs while in CMC, Vellore and Aster MIMS. He was Organizing Committee member of (1) First National MID-Term conference of Indian Rheumatology Association held in Vellore in 2008, (2) 27th Annual National Conference of Indian Rheumatology Association(IRACON 2011)held in CMC Vellore in 2011 (3)Annual conference of Indian Rheumatology Association-Kerala Chapter held in Calicut in 2013 (4)Indian Rheumatology Association workshop on Scientific Communication held in 2014 in association with IMA Calicut , (5)organized workshop as part of annual conference of south zone IRA held in 2016,he was joint organizing secretary of SZIRACON 2016 held in 2016 at Calicut and organizing committee member of IRACON 2016 held in 2016 in Cochin. He is member of Academy of Medical Specialties (IMA-AMS) Kerala chapter and Executive Committee member of IRA Kerala state chapter

He has experiences in (1) teaching of Rheumatology Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Nursing students, Physiotherapists and occupational therapists,(2) teaching undergraduate students (MBBS) at KMC, Manipal and (3) teaching of post graduate students(MD,DNB) in the discipline of internal Medicine in CMC, Vellore