Ladies in red and men in black suits, was a sight to behold on the eve of 9th November 2019 at Saveetha Dental college “INSIGNIA 2019”. Insignia is an annual event organised at Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai which rewards the efforts of students and staffs from the dental college. The event was presided by DrN.M.Veeraiyan. The Chief guests were Dr. Janak Raj Sabharwal, Dr Vijay Sankar, DrVasanth Kumar, Dr.K.Hisamuddin Papa, DrD. Rajagovindan, Dr. Rosy Vennila and Dr.Arumalla Sridhar Reddy.
The evening began with an Inaugural dance which was followed by the award ceremony. About 250 awards were given to BDS Students,Dental technicians, Postgraduates, Teaching and Non teaching staffs based on various criteria’s. The students also showed their talent by performing cultural events with thundering performances from both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The chief guest for first year BDS awardswas Dr.D.Rajagovindan. The awards were given for 5 toppers from Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Dental Anatomy, Fundamentals of Dentistry, and Behavioral Science. Awards for overall toper and the student with maximum number of publication were also given.Thariny.E, TahamaraiSelvi,V.T, Sarojini. K, Anu Ishawarya.J and Deepti Sogasu bagged awards in almost all the categories. Blessy Pushparathma. S was given the research topper award for 3 publications in Scopus indexed journals.
DR Rosy Vennila awarded the II BDS students for their acheivements in 8 academic subjects and research publications. The overall toppers were VaishnaviDevi.B, Ramya.G, Akshaya. K, ShamaaAnjum. And ThaslimaNandhini .Also received the research topper award with 5 publications in indexed journals.
The third year BDS students collected their awards from Dr Vijay Sankar.The students were awarded for the subjects General Medicine, General Surgery, Oral Pathology and additional subjects including Medical Emergencies, Imageology and Practice Management. The overall toppers were Meghana Reddy Jangam Reddy, GayathriKarthikeyan, KeerthigaNagarajan, KeshaavKrishnaa.P and Pranathi.T. The third years also received clinical awards for their achievements in clinical aspect as well; the overall clinical topper was Keshaav Krishnaa.P and Keerthiga Nagarajan recieved the award for Research.
Dr.Arumalla Sridhar Reddy awarded the Final BDS students for their performance in 10 academic subjects, clinicals and research publications. The overall toppers were Sahil Choudhari, Geethika. B, Subashri.A, Jembulingam.S and Vaishali. S. The clinical topper for the fourth years was received by Subasri.A and the research topper was Sarvesh Kumar with 4 publications in Scopus indexed journals.
The hardwork of the Interns was recognised with the clinical award for the maximum number of procedures. It was handed over Dr.K.Hisamuddin Papa. Shamit Thaper for Conservative dentistry, Abijeth.B for Oral medicine and Sharanya. H for Oral surgery, Khushali K Shah for Public Health Dentistry and Sri VasaaviKadiyala forPeriodontic and Prosthodontics, Nivetha Srinivasan for Orthodontics and Sahana.R.Yfor Pedodontics. The best intern of the year award was given toNandhakumar.E. The research Topper award was given to Sahana. K with 6 publications.
The dental technicians were awarded for their excellence in academics and clinical work. The highest procedure count was received by SaiRam (1st year),Naresh (2nd year) and Balaji (3rd year). For acedamic excellence Sheik Abdullah ,Dhanalakshmi and Ajithbagged the awards.
Dr. Janak Raj Sabharwal, also handed over the awards to the postgraduates basedon academics and the skillful clinical workfor the year 2018-2019 in their representative departments. Shivanagini. Y won the best researcher award for 4 publications and Hema Shree. K received the award for her publication with highest impact factor among the postgraduates.The best outgoing postgraduate was Dr. Hannah. R from the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.
DrVasanth Kumar handed over the prizes to the esteemed faculty for their untiring drive towards teaching. DrRajeshkumarrecived the most punctual and workaholic award. Research awards were also given to the faculty.
Clinic 3 won the best clinic award and best cleanliness award .The Departments with the highest academic scores were Prosthodontics and Dental Anatomy. The departments with highest Batch average Prosthodontics and General Pathology. The Academic award for highest number of distinctions was bagged by the Department of General Pathology .Among the faculty, Dr.VishnuPriya was awarded the Best Faculty with the highest CAFE Score. The Best Research Department was won by Biochemistry. The Overall Best department award was won by the Departments of Biochemistry and Prosthodontics.
