Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (RD)

Mangalore, Jan 13: Eric Christopher Lobo, chairman and managing director of Lobo Teachers Foundation, has been nominated as the executive committee member of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBI) at the recently held National Conference ‘ACBICON – ‘07’ at New Delhi. He is the first Mangalorean to achieve this post in the 35 years of existence of the ACBI. 

ACBI is affiliated body of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC). He has also been invited to undergo a fellowship programme in ‘Point of care testing and critical care diagnostics’ under IFCC Overseas Fellowship Programme. He is also a recipient of the Gallwas grant sponsored by the American Association of Clinical Chemestry in ‘Pediatric and Maternal Fetal Division’ and ‘Clinical diagnostics management sciences; from the Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics Atkaiser Franz Josep Hospital and Preyer Children’s Hospital, Vienna, Austria.

He is currently serving as the member of board of studies of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS).

Eric C Lobo is at the helm of managing St Ann’s Nursing College and Chethana Hospital at Mulky, with their mission to provide medical studies to poor students in the society and rendering health care service to economically backward community in the rural areas.