| Dr. S. K. Sharma, Director | | Dr. A. Rajwanshi, Prof. and Head, Dept. of Cytology and Principal Investigator | | Dr. Radhika Srinivasan, Addl. Prof. of Cytology and Co-Principal Investigator | | Dr. S. K. Gupta, Former Principal Investigator | | | The Department of Cytology is a well established full-fledged and an independent department at the PGIMER, Chandigarh. It provides service to all the clinical specialties including outdoor and indoor hospitals in the Union Territory of Chandigarh and neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and other neighbouring states. The department prepares and examines specimens of aspiration cytology, exfoliative cytology (body fluids/urine, GIT, respiratory, CSF, buccal smears for sex chromatin), gynaecologic cytology (cervical smears and hormonal cytology) and gynaecologic histopathology. The department provides training to the M.D. residents of pathology, M.Sc. Medical Laboratory Technology and B.Sc. Medical Laboratory Technology students. The department has a unique feature of starting Post-MD Certificate Course in Cytopathology in the year 1997. The department is actively involved in the research work and has a large number of research papers to its credit which have been published in national and international journals of repute. The department was assigned with the project on "Development of an Atlas of Cancer in India" by the National Cancer Registry, Bangalore in the Year 2001-2002 under the supervision of Dr. Subhash Kumari Gupta, the then Head of the Department of Cytology. Consequent upon superannuation of Dr. Gupta, Prof. A. Rajwanshi has taken over as Head of the Department w.e.f. 1st January, 2003 and has started looking after this project. Dr.S.Radhika, Addl. Prof. of Cytology is the Co-Investigator in the project.
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