Bharat Jyoti Award to Prof. Shelly

Bharat Jyoti Award to Prof. Shelly

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, September 10, 2012: City based Neurologist Professor Bhaskara P Shelley was honoured with the prestigious and globally reputed ‘Bharat Jyoti Award’ and ‘Certificate of Excellence’ by India International Friendship Society.  Prof Dr. B. P. Shelley received the award from Dr. Bhishma Narain Singh, former Governor of Tamil Nadu and Assam, in the presence of Shri GVG Krishnamurthy, former Chief Election Commissioner; Shri S. Joginder Singh (IPS) former Director of CBI; and Shri Syed Sibte Rizvi (former governor of Jharkhand) at the India International Centre in New Delhi recently. The India International Friendship Society, a voluntary organization confers Bharat Jyoti Awards annually to individuals for outstanding leadership in fields such as education, medical services, engineering, architecture and other exceptional performance of high order and services.

 

 

Dr. Shelley is a cognitive behaviour neurologist trained at United Kingdom and has worked at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, his alma mater; later at a teaching university hospital in Oman. He was a research fellow at the Institute of Neurology, London in 2002 & subsequently research fellow at Cambridge (UK) in 2007. He returned to India to work at Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore. Being an academician with a passion for teaching and medical education, he was the founding editor in chief of a peer reviewed national medical journal, Muller Journal of Medical Sciences & Research, during his tenure at FMMC, Mangalore. Currently he is the Professor and Head, Department of Neurology at Yenepoya University, Mangalore.

His main areas of interest is brain sciences at the interface between neurology and psychiatry, areas that bridge the divide between mind and brain duality, dementia, healthy brain ageing, and medical education. He is a proponent of ‘healthy brain ageing’  and advocates ‘brain health lifestyle’ as the current best hope for dementia prevention.