Vice Chancellor's Biography

Dr.Basavana Gowdappa Dr. H. Basavana Gowdappa
Vice Chancellor .
J.S.S. AHER, S S Nagar
Mysore – 570 015, Karnataka
Academic Qualifications : MD,FICC,FACP
Phone : +91-821-2548391; Fax: +91-821-2548394
Email : vc@jssuni.edu.in

Dr. H. Basavana Gowdappa, MD,FICC,FACP,
Vice Chancellor, JSS AHER, Mysore
Professor of Medicine & Principal, JSS Medical College
Dean faculty of Medicine, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysuru

Prof Hathur Basavana Gowdappa, Principal of JSS Medical College Mysore and Dean faculty of Medicine of JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, has been working for the past thirty-two years, actively and involved in uplifting the standards of Medical education in the institution and professional ethics. He has vast experience in medical, primarily as a teacher, as a guide for research scholars & PG students and as clinician for providing compassionate patient care. He has worked hard with commitment at JSS Medical College since 1987 and helped for all round development of the institution. He has also contributed for streamlined academic activities of various academic organisations.

Dr.Basavana Gowdappa, is currently the secretary of Mysore Physicians Medical & Research Trust( MPMRT). Through this organisation, he has been organising annual Medicine update every year for the last 15 years, with lot of emphasis on clinical medicine with more of problem-solving sessions and evidence based principles of medicine. He has been contributing for upgradation of medical knowledge of several thousands of PG students, practicing physicians and Family practitioners for last 15 years with innovative continuing medical education program. He has also served as the past chairman of Association of Physicians of India (Karnataka chapter). He was the founder President of Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI). He has also served as past president of Cardiological Society of India & Association of Physicians of India -Mysore chapter. He has helped in streamlining the academic activities and functioning of all these organisations.

Academic recognitions

He was awarded: 4 gold medals & 2 cash prizes by University of Mysore for securing highest marks in Medicine
He was voted as best teacher for 3 consecutive years (1993-1995)
He has received the best teacher award by Lions club of India in the year 2005
He was awarded fellowship by Indian College of Cardiology for academic contributions in the field of non-invasive Cardiology in the year 2004
He has been now awarded the Fellowship of American College of Physicians for his academic expertise in Internal Medicine in the year 2018
He has been the external expert member of Academic council of Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University)
He received research grant of Rs. 53 Lakhs from ICMR for an epidemiological study of tribal population
He has been involved in more than 20 multicentric global clinical trials

Dr.Basavana Gowdappa has to his credit several national and International publications (43) and has initiated several international collaborations through bilateral, academic and research exchange programmes. He has to his credit, the honour of having organized several national Symposia, State conferences and few international meetings and conferences. He is actively involved in the education initiatives in Medicine, update courses & workshops. In recognition of his invaluable services in the field of Medical education, he has been awarded 11 oration awards.

Dr. Basavana Gowdappa is the Life member of Association of Physicians of India & Indian College of Cardiology. He is actively involved himself in the professional activities of the API & CSI for advancing the medical profession in India & Karnataka in particular. He was unanimously elected as the founder president of Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI-K). He streamlined the organisation activities and gave proper guidelines in preparing academic agenda as well as formulated the research grant policies.

Societal responsibilities

He took up the responsibility of making Suttur- as a model health village, the programme was his concept and he worked as chief co-ordinator. This programme was inaugurated by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi-the then leader of opposition at Lok-Sabha.
He is the Key-co-Ordinator of SMARAN project- Somashekar Munavalli trust for upgradation of health awareness in North Karnataka
He was involved in several health awareness exhibitions as part of Suttur Jathra exhibition, as part of health camps and health awareness talks in All India Radio.
He played key role in several public awareness activities by organising: World heart day, World diabetes day, World AIDS day, and Doctors day
Contributed for economising the health care through subsidised streamlined therapeutic plans

Social honours

Lifetime achievement award by MPMRT (Mysore Physicians Medical Research Trust) for contribution to societal concerns and academic upliftment in 2005
Life time achievement award by API-Mysore (Association of Physicians of India, Mysore chapter) in 2009
Honour & felicitation by Cardiological Society of India, Mysore chapter
Lifetime achievement award by RSSDI-Karnataka (Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India) in 2011
Lifetime achievement award by Brhamara Trust for societal and academic contributions in 2017
Kannada Rajyothsava award by Mysore district kannada Social honour and award by Dr. Mruthyunjayappa trust in 2012 & Samskruthi division in 2014
Social honour at Siddarameswara Jayanthi at Honnali in 1983 for having achieved high academic performance

Leadership at JSS Medical College, Mysuru a constituent College of JSS AHER

Joined the institute as Assistant professor of Medicine in the year 1987 was given an early responsibility to head the unit in Medicine in 1995.streamlined the activities of medicine unit and was liked by all the students and interns. Was responsible for good academic activities of the academic society as secretary and chairman in the year 1996 & 1998 respectively. Was given the responsibility to head the department of Medicine in the year 2006 and developed the academic activity as well as improved the committed clinical care by all the faculty of the department. Was given the responsibility of heading the institute in the year 2009.Was able to realise the dream of our leader-the vice chancellor of deemed to be university by streamlining the academic activities of all the departments. The publications of the institute were very few before 2009 and it went on steadily increasing to 10 times over next 9 years. Worked with all the faculty and HODs to improve the infrastructure and made policies for optimised utilisation of the same. Faced several MCI assessments at regular intervals and contributed in developing the institutes calibre as follows

Increase in MBBS admission number from 150 to 200
Increase in Postgraduate seats in all the departments ( General Medicine : from 08 to 14, General Surgery : from 08 to 16, Paediatrics from 02 to 9, Dermatology from 1 to 6, Anaesthesiology from 02 to 08, ENT from 01 to 04 , Ophthalmology from 01 to 04, Psychiatry from 01 to 03 , Community medicine from 01 to 04, Pharmacology from 01 to 04, Forensic Medicine from 01 to 03 , Microbiology from 01 to 04 , Pathology from 02 to 08,Anatomy from 01 to 03,Physiology from 01 to 03, & Biochemistry from 01 to 03)
He worked for Starting of 2 new PG courses: MD – Emergency Medicine & MD- Hospital Administration. Both these courses have been recognised by MCI
Worked hard for Starting of 4 Super-speciality Courses: DM – Gastroenterology, DM – Neurology, DM – Nephrology & M.ch – Urology. All these courses have been recognised by MCI
Formulated the idea in starting Centre of excellence in Molecular Biology (DST-FIST) & Centre of excellence in Clinical research-CDSA (DBT)
Made policies for Enhancement in quality of medical education and increase in students’ performance- both at UG & PG level
Social honour at Siddarameswara Jayanthi at Honnali in 1983 for having achieved high academic performance• Streamlined the activities of Academic society
Infused better interpersonal relationship among faculty through humanities workshop
Significant enhancement in quantity & Quality of publications: From mere double digit in 2008 to nearly 250 publications every year
Significant increase in total consultancy through clinical trials from Few lakhs rupees to nearly 2 Crores
Took the image of institution to greater heights to the extent that- the College is most sought after by students from all over the country for undergraduate as well as post graduate level

Leadership at JSS AHER, Mysuru (Deemed to be University under section 3 of the UGC Act)

Dr.BasavanaGowdappa assumed the office of Principal of JSS Medical College and dean faculty of Medicine of JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, a Deemed to be University, (formerly known as JSS University, Mysore) on the 2nd April 2009 and worked to the expectations of the Vice chancellor and worked hard with all the team mates for realising the dreams of the leader. He was member of the Board of Management, Academic Council, Boards of Studies and other committees and contributed significantly to strengthen the efficiency and functionality of the academy in line with the legacy of its parent society the JSS Mahavidyapeetha and the Sri Suttur Math.

With the co-ordinated team work of D. BasavanaGowdappa with all the deans and other colleagues the JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, in the last ten years of its establishment has several achievements to its credit and the salient ones are listed below:

Accredited ‘A’ grade with CGPA of 3.47 (2nd Cycle) by National Assessment and Accreditation Committee (NAAC)
JSS University Ranked consecutively among the top 50 universities of the country by NIRF, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India (35th Rank in 2016, 45th rank in 2017 and 37th Rank in 2018).
Quacquerelli and Symmonds (QS) the international ranking and rating agency has rated JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research with 4 Star rating, making it the first health sciences-based university in India to achieve this distinction.
The Deemed University was Ranked no 1 among the young universities of state of Karnataka and 3rd among the overall ranking of universities in Karnataka State University Ranking Framework (KSURF).
Centre of excellence in Molecular Biology & Regenerative Medicine declared by Karnataka Vision Group of Science & Technology and FIST, DST
Approved by CDSA (DBT) GOI, as Centre of Excellence for Clinical trials.

Awards of Orations, and achievements

Dr.Shashidhar Malaka raddy memorial oration at annual conference of KAPICON held at kuvempu kalamandira, Shimoga On ”DIABETES & SEPSIS” on 14th-May-2004
Presidential oration at annual conference of RSSDI held at Lalithmahal palace Hotel, Mysore on “DIABETIC DYSAUTONOMIA” 24th-july-2004
KRSSDI oration at Hubli “DIABETES CARE IN KARNATAKA AT CROSS ROADS” On 21st-July-2006
RSSDI oration “DIABETIC EPIDEMIC IN INDIA-WHAT HAVE WE DONE & WHAT CAN BE DONE” at Bangalore 10th- Aug-2007
Dr.T.B.Basavarajendra Memorial oration in KAPICON held at Bellary on 6th- Aug-2008 on “FEBRILE THROMBOCYTOPENIA”
Dr.Krishnamurthy memorial oration at Shimoga IMA on Doctors day on 2nd July 2010 on “Obesity”
Dr.A.K.N.Sinha memorial oration “Vignettes in Geriatrics”awarded by Indian medical association during annual conference held at Kollegal on 14th- Oct-2012
Dr.M.Maiah honour oration “Diabetes, dyslipidaemia & Thyroid dysfunction-The metabolic link”-Awarded by Association of Physicians of India ,during annual conference held at Hassan on 14th- May-2012
Dr. A.T.S.Iyengar memorial oration awarded by south Indian Medicolegal Association Conference at Mysore on 11th-nov-2013.topic “Ethics and Medical negligence”
Dr.Shankaregowda memorial oration, at Raichur (2014) Awarded by API-Raichur branch.Topic “Diabetes & Atherosclerosis”
API-Karnataka- Presidential oration, Vijayapura(2015) “Acute undifferentiated fever – challenge to clinician
DIACON-Oration at Bhagalkote (2017)- “Journey from malnutrition to metabolic syndrome”
IMA Endowment oration awarded by IMA-Marnataka at Medicon held at Gadag on 21st-Oct-2018. Topic: ” Hypertensive Crisis”

Awards

Best poster award for “MARFAN SYNDROME” at KAPICON 10th -11th March 2003, Mysore, India
Best paper award for paper on “Study of prevalence of Diabetes mellitus and impaired fasting glucose in rural population of Suttur” at annual national conference of RSSDI on 22nd -24th September 2005, Bangalore, India.
“Best Teacher award by Lions Club of India” in 2004
Fellowship of Indian College of Cardiology (FICC) –was awarded in convocation held at Mumbai on 10th- December- 2003
Life time achievement award by Mysore Physicians Medical Research Trust on 6th Jan 2005
Life Time Achievement Award – 2012 - during Annual conference on 15th & 16th Sept. 2012 at Raichur.
Best Award paper – ‘Visceral Adiposity in Diabetes study in Mysore’ at API Conference -KAPICON-2012 held on 11th – 13th, May 2012 at Hassan.
Unanimously elected as the President of Association of Physicians of India (API), Karnataka State Chapter for the academic year 2014-15
Karnataka Rajyothsava award of Mysore District cultural forum-1st-Nov-2014 by Mysore District Kannada Culture Division as a token of gratitude for commitment in the field of medicine to the welfare of people.
Felicitated with social honour of Basava Prashashthi Award, for the outstanding achievement in the field of Medicine By Akila Bharatha Veerashiva Mahasabha,on Basava Jayanthi on 18th-Aug-2015 at Mysore
Best Case Report in Karnataka Medical Journal at KAPICON-2017,held on 19th-21st of May 2017 Bhramara’s Lifetime acheivement Award for Medical Education and Research was awarded by Bhramara Trust on 10th-March-2018.