In 2017, QMed was awarded three badges from GlobalGiving. This year - we got a fourth badge - for Effectiveness.

QMed does its first two workshops in AIIMS Bhubaneswar on April 26 and 27 AIIMS Bhubaneswar is the second AIIMS to have our workshops; the first being AIIMS Jodhpur. We have done workshops at the RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences and Institute Rotary Cancer Hospita, AIIMS Delhi; a few years ago We have also delivered lectures at AIIMS Raipur, Delhi and Bhubaneswar.

Vasumathi Sriganesh mentors around 25 participants of MECOR MECOR is an annual event conducted by a section of the American Thoracic Society, to strengthen research skills in India. Vasumathi Sriganesh has participated in this for years; this was the seventh year. This year, participants were made to view her recorded lectures before the event, work on search strategies for their topics and get mentored to improve them. The experiment was pretty successful! Her contributions to this program are well appreciated by the faculty from the American Thoracic Society