Dr Kuppachi Memorial Medal for the Best PG Research Paper in Medicine & Allied Specialities - AMC Research Forum & Medicine Dept.

Dr.Kuppachi Krishna Murthy Memorial Medal for the best PG research paper in Medicine & Allied Specialities was conducted on 21st November 2014. (delayed - usually held on his birthday 13th Nov.).
There were 8 papers - 3 from gastro, 2 from neuro, 1 from Endo, 1 from DVL (and one late entry from Medicine).
The medal was awarded to Dr.Anuradha (Neuro) for her study on reproductive endocrine dysfunction and vit. D levels in women with epilepsy.
A special cash prize (sponsored by Ethics Committee of the college) was awarded to Dr.Chaitanya for his paper on cholangiocarcinoma.
Judges were Drs. V.Rama Narasimham, A.Krishna Murthy & P.Ramana Rao.
PG volunteers - Drs. Bindu, Pranay, Harikrishna and others.
Dr.IAV Prasad Lal (former alumnus and cardiology faculty) promised to give Rs.1 lakh to the medal corpus fund.
Mr.Syam Sundar, son of late Dr.Kuppachi who was giving a pure gold medal for about 8 - 9 years and later discontinued due to the soaring gold prizes (for 4-5 years we were giving a gold coated silver medal from the Research Forum funds) promised to resume sponsoring a pure gold medal from 2015 onwards.
thanks to both of them. 
some photos are below.