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| Curriculum vitae | |
| Personal profile: | |
Name : |
Hari Kumar B Nair |
| Masters Student Health and Society in South Asia South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. www.doctorhari.com Email: doctorhari@gmail.com |
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Nationality : |
Indian |
Date of birth : |
26th March 1976 |
Languages known : |
Malayalam, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil(speak),English, German (basic). |
| Formal Education : | |
June 2008- onwards : Masters Health and Society in South Asia, South Asia Institute,Heidelberg. (http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/ETHNO/mahassa/index.php?page=students ) |
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| Work Experience: | |
July 2008 onwards :Vaidya (Ayurveda consultant,part time ), Medical Park Ruhr, Castrop- Rauxel, Germany. (www.medicalparkruhr.de ) December 2000- April 2008 : Medical Superintendent, KNM NSS Ayurveda Hospital, Vallamkulam, Kerala, India, on study leave. (http://nss.org.in/institutions/hospitals.htm ) April 2005- April 2008 : : Medical Superintendent, NSS Ayurveda Hospital, Aranmula, |
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| Teaching Experience : | |
November 2008, May 2009, Introducing Ayurveda for Medical students, at Ambulanz fur Natural Heilkunde and Integrative Medicine,Department of Gynecological Endocrinology, University of Heidelberg. (www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/frauenklinik/Gyn_Endokrinologie/images/PDF/WahlfachAthena10-08.pdf ) April 11-20 2008, Introduction to Ayurveda for General medicine practitioners (GP s) in the Ayurveda study tour to Kerala, organized by the Prince Charles Foundation for Integrated Health, UK. (http://www.bhma.org/userfiles/file/India%20flyer.pdf )(www.fih.org.uk ) December 2000- April 2008 :Faculty of Ayuveda ,in the Ayurveda awareness course for International students, Vijnanakalavedi Centre for Cultural studies,Aranmula, Kerala, India. (www.vijnanakalavedi.org ) June 2006- April 2008 : Visiting faculty of Ayurveda, Mar Athanasios Center for advanced Studies,Thiruvalla, Kerala ,India. (http://www.macfast.org/ ) |
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| Presentations : | |
28th May 2009 : Department of International Health, University of Heidelberg , Ayurveda as a cultural system .( for the Masters course Anthropology as a tool for Public Health). 4th May 2009 : Department of Indology, University of Copenhagen, An Introduction to Ayurveda- practitioners perspective in the course -Yoga and Ayurveda taught by Prof.Kenneth Zysk. 20th October 2005 : AGE Medical Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Department of Ethnology,University of Heidelberg, Rituals and Healing in Kerala Temples; an Ayurvedic perspective. April 2002 : Ambulanz fur Naturalheilkunde, University of Heidelberg , Gynecological treatments in Ayurveda. |
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| Social activities : | |
Vice Chairman, Oachira Tsunami Charitable trust, working for rehabilitation of victims of Tsunami. Organizer of Free Ayurveda Medical camps and Public health initiatives using traditional medicine against Emerging infectious diseases in South India. Worked as Consultant in UNDP` s Endogenous tourism project for Aranmula village, for the conservation and propagation of Medicinal plants. Pro active regarding the health impacts of Climate change in the tropics. |
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| Work under progress : | |
Ayurveda and Rituals in Mental Health in Kerala , Masters thesis, field study planned from 18th July 2009 . Chikungunya ; Tracing trajectories and searching for solutions – on the Public health initiative from traditional medicine practitioners in the management of Chikungunya(an emerging infectious viral disease) in South India in 2006 and 2007. |
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| Affiliations: | |
Registered practitioner of Ayurveda, under the Travancore- Cochin Medical Council, Kerala, India. Member Ayurveda Medical Association of India.(http://www.ayurveda-amai.org ) Member International Association for the study of Traditional Asian Medicine (www.iastam.org ) Member International society for Complementary Medical Research (www.iscmr.org) |
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| Media stories: | |
UK Medical team visit Kerala , The Hindu, April 18, 2008. Project to promote cultivation of Herbs, The Hindu,August 06,2005. In the Land of Four star Asceticism, New York Times |
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| Research interests | |
| Rituals and Healing Ayurveda and Mental Health Anthropology of Traditional Medical practice Integrated Medicine Indigenous studies and Engaged anthropology South Asia Studies Kerala Studies. |
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