Sikkim doctor bags prestigious European award

GANGTOK, 17 June: Dr. Aarti Sarda, a consultant dermatologist from Sikkim, has been conferred the Imrich Sarkany Memorial Award for her contribution on vascular skin disease at the recently concluded European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Spring Symposium held in Verona, Italy (06-10 June,2012). She was invited to present her work at the symposium and was one of the three awardees from Non-European countries.
Dr. Sarda is an alumni of Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok, and graduated from Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences and completed her post graduation in Dermatology from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. She was awarded a National award last year for her research on Prurigo - an allergic skin condition. She was also invited to the World Congress of Dermatology, Seoul, South Korea to present a paper on Lupus Band Test in 2011.
Dr. Sarda is the daughter of SK Sarda and Shobha Sarda of Sikkim and regularly contributes articles in national and international journals and is a freelance writer for local and national newspapers.