Director
About The Director
- Qualification: MBBS (Gold Medallist) MD (Pharmacology)
- Present Position: Director, Center for Education, Awareness & Research on Chemicals and Health (CEARCH)
- Past Position: Head, Poison Information Centre, National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad - 380 016, Gujarat.
- Experience: Research and Teaching in Toxicology for 29 years Area of Interest: Acute and Chronic health effects of Pesticides and chemicals.
Membership of Professional Bodies:
- Life member, Society of Toxicology, India
- Life member, Indian Association of Occupational Health
- Life member, Environmental Mutagen Society of India
- Member, Indian Pharmacological Society
- Member, Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology
- International member, American Academy of Clinical Toxicology
Invitations to International Meetings and Conferences
- UN expert group meeting on Women and Health, at Tunis, Tunisia, 27 Sept.- 2 Oct, 1998
- Invited by IPCS/WHO to participate in the workshop/working group during Third International Congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT) at Penang , Malaysia from 11-16 Oct., 2001.
- Strengthening the role of poison centers in chemical safety in the Asia Pacific Region"
- Community -based studies on pesticide poisonings"
- IPCS sponsored symposia on Children's vulnerability to environmental toxins and the Epidemiology of Pesticide Poisoning.
- Invited to First Pesticide Surveillance Group Meeting Of The Project On Epidemiology of Pesticide Poisoning at PAHO, Washington from 5-6 July 2002.
- Invited to International conference on Pesticide exposure and Health held at Bethesda, Maryland from 8 July - 11 July 2002.
- Invited to Poisons Information Monographs (PIMs) Working Group Meeting of the INTOX Programme/Pesticides Project 18-20 December 2002 Penang, Malaysia
- Invited to First meeting of IPCS INTOX users group at Cardiff from 28-30 April , 2003.
- Invited to review draft manual on " Multilevel course of safe use of pesticides and on the Diagnosis and treatment of pesticide poisoning held at Jakarta, Indonesia from 20-23 August, 2003.
- Invited to International Society for Environmental Epidemiology conference - Johannesburg, September 2005 to present "Acute and Chronic health effect studies on Pesticides in India: Opportunities for networking, research collaboration and capacity building"in a symposium on South-South Collaboration.
- Invited to WHO workshop on " Protecting children from established and uncertain chemical threats: Tools and mechanisms for information towards prevention", at Geneva from 17th to 19th October, 2005,
- Invited by WHO To review the draft WHO Guidelines for the Public Health Management of Chemical Incidents and Emergencies, WHO Office, Beijing, China, 23-25 April 2007
- Invited by WHO to Review PIMS (Poison Information Monographs) at Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2007
- Invited by ATSDR, CDC, USA for HSEES ( Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance ) meeting, at Washington, USA in December, 2007
- Invited by WHO for PIMS (Poison Information Monographs) review meeting at Cardiff, UK in March, 2008.
- Invited to WHO-SEARO Informal Meeting Poisons Centres and Chemical Safety 12, February 2013, at SEARO, New Delhi
- Invited to WHO Informal Consultation on Regional Capacity for Detection and Response to Chemical and Radiological Events, 20-22 March 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Invited to WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety at Bangkok, 23 -26 June 2013
- Invited as Expert in session on Toxicology during 1st State conference on Critical Care held in Ahmedabad from 25-27 Oct, 2013 organized by Indian Society for Critical Care Medicine, Gujarat State.
- Invited to the meeting as Temporary Adviser for preparing 'Guidelines for the prevention and management of lead poisoning' organized by the WHO from 24-26 March 2014 at London, United Kingdom.
- Eighth Meeting of Users of the IPCS INTOX Data Management System from 24-26 November 2014 held at Cardiff, United Kingdom.
- Psesented a paper on 'Toxicology for Occupational Physicians' at IAPSMCON-2016 Pre-Conference Workshop on "CME on Occupational Health" on 06th January 2015.
- Invited to the meeting as Temporary Adviser at the 'Review Meeting for WHO Guidelines on the management of lead poisoning' from 7-9 December 2015 held at Geneva, Switzerland.
- Invited for a series of lectures on various types of poisoning for Critical Care Tutorials on 14th Februray,2016.
- Invited to the meeting as Guideline development group member for 'WHO guidelines on the management and prevention of lead poisoning' including participation in a guideline meeting from 5-7 Dec 2016 at London, UK.
- Invited to ICMR-NIOH workshop on 'Prevention and Management of Lead Poisoning' in collaboration with WHO from 14-16th June, 2017 and presented a paper on 'Lead Poisoning due to Ayurvedic drugs, Experience with Penicillamine'.
Important Publications
- Dewan A. A profile of acute poisoning cases reported to the NIOH Poison Information Center. Proceedings of International Seminar, Training Course and Workshop on Poison Control in India and SEARO Countries. Nov. 6-11, 1995
- Dewan, A. 'Role and Relevance of Poison Information Centers in India; ICMR Bulletin, May 1997, 27, 43-47.
- Dewan, A. and H.N. Saiyed. "Acute poisoning due to agricultural pesticides reported to NIOH Poison Information Center". Proceedings of the WHO workshop on Occupational Health in Agricultural Sector, held at NIOH, Ahmedabad, September 23-25, 1997. p.136-142
- Dewan,A. Pandya, C.B. and H.N.Saiyed, Book review on 'Basic Analytical Toxicology'. I J M R, vol.109, 1998,p.109-110.
- Dewan, A. 'Experience at Poison Information Center at NIOH. Essentials of Clinical Toxicology' Ed.S.B.Lall. Narosa Publishing House N.Delhi, 1998,p.280-284.
- Dewan, A. Occupational and Environmental health of women. EGM/ HEALTH/1998/EP.2.United Nations. Paper also at website http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/wohealth.htm
- Dewan, A Book review on 'guidelines for Poisons Control' Ind J Med Res., 1999,109, p.119.
- Dewan, A. Patel A B and Saiyed H N 'Acute Methemoglobinemia- A Common Occupational Hazard in an Industrial City in Western India' J Occup Health; 43(3): pp 168-171 (2001).
- Saiyed H, Dewan A, Bhatnagar V, Shenoy U, Shenoy R, Rajmohan H, Patel K, Kashyap R, Kulkarni P, Rajan B, Lakkad B. 'Effect of endosulfan on male reproductive development. Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Dec; 111(16): 1958-63.
- Dewan A, Bhatnagar V, Mathur M L et al. 'Repeated episodes of Endosulfan poisoning'. J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 2004. 42(4)363-9.
- Sinha, S.N., Patel, T.S., Desai, N.M., Mansuri, M.M., Dewan, A and Saiyed, H.N. 'GC-MS study of endosulfan in biological samples' Asian Journal of Chemistry 2004,16(3-4), 1685-1690.
- Sinha, S.N., Pal, R., Dewan, A., Mansuri, M. M., Saiyed, H.N., Effect of dissociation energy on ion formation and sensitivity of an analytical method for determination of chlorpyrifos in human blood, using gas chromatography - mass spectrometer (GC-MS in MS/MS). International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 2006 (253) 48-57.
- Patel A. B., Pal R., and Dewan A. Distribution profile of paraoxonase phenotypes among the Gujaratis. Ind J Hum Genet 13, 65-68, 2007.
- Dewan A., Ashwin B. Patel, Ramavati R. Pal, Umesh J. Jani, Vinu C. Singel, Maulik D. Panchal. Mass ethion poisoning with high mortality. Clinical Toxicology Jan 2008, Vol. 46, No. 1, Pages 85-88.
- Perri Zeitz Ruckart , Maureen Orr , Anna Palaszewska-Tkacz , Aruna Dewan and Vikas Kapil. A U.S. Partnership with India and Poland to Track Acute Chemical Releases to Serve Public Health. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009, 6, 2375-2386.
- One of the Lead authors on WHO monograph on Health Implications from Monocrotophos use: A review of evidence in India (ISBN 978-92-9022-345-0), 2009.
- Dewan A. Medical toxicology: Need for recognition as a subspecialty. Ind J Pharmacol, Editorial, 2011, 43,1-2.
- Ashwin B. PATEL, Aruna DEWAN, and Bharat C. KAJI. Monocrotophos poisoning through contaminated millet flour. Arh Hig Rada Toksikol 2012;63.
- A.Dewan : Characteristic Clinical and laboratory findings in Chlorpyrifos poisoning. (Abstract, APAMT), Hong Kong j. emerg. Med. Vol. 19(6) Nov 2012, p. 443.
- Nikhil Dikshit, Mudita Tiwari, Aruna Dewan. A case of Sodium Cyanide poisoning in a young male. Natl j med Res. Volume 4, Issue 1, Jan - Mar 2014, p 106 -108.
- Shweta Sharma, Aruna Dewan, Gyanendra Singh. Toxico-vigilance - An inevitable prerequisite to keep a watch on toxins around you. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 45 (2017) 32-35.
Papers presented by CEARCH scientists:
Dr. A.Dewan presented on the topic 'Characteristic Clinical and laboratory findings in Chlorpyrifos poisoning.' In11th Science Congress of Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT), organized in Hong Kong on 29 November - 1 December 2012.
Arun Kavad presented paper on "Case reports of lead poisoning - Commonly undiagnosed poisoning in Gujarat', in International symposium of Forensic Science, Patiala, India dated on 07 to 09 March 2013.