Dr Pramod conferred Safdarjung NABI Professorship 2012 Award

March 13, 2012

The National Academy of Burns, India Conferred the Safdarjung NABI professorship 2012 award on Prof Dr Pramod Kumar for his recent research work in burn care. He received the award from the former President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at NABICON 2012, held in New Delhi from February 3 to 5, 2012. He also received the Safdarjung oration certificate from the founder president of NABI, Dr JL Gupta.


Dr Pramod is the professor and head of plastic surgery at KMC, Manipal.  He has done extensive work on burn excision, post burn reconstruction and wound healing. He is the founder president of the society of wound care and research.


His research on burns in finding the biomarkers to know the severity and survival potential of burn patients has generated a lot of interest in the country. He has innovated new technique of wound dressing titled, LAD. This method saves time, energy and most cost effective method of managing difficult non-healing wounds.