All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur

MBBS, MD Microbiology

Life Member of Indian Medical Association
Life Member of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists
Life Member of Vidarbha Association of Medical Microbiologists
Member of American Society for Microbiology
Training on Antimicrobial Stewardship at ‘3rd Advanced National workshop on Antimicrobial Stewardship’ 24th - 28th June 2025 at JIPMER, Puducherry
Regional training of trainers on air-borne infection control (AIC) measures in Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB) centers under National TB Elimination Programme, 23rd -24th Aug 2024 at Goa
Training on Hospital Infection Control at ‘7th Advanced National workshop on Hospital Infection Control’, 23rd- 26th January 2024 at JIPMER, Puducherry
Hands on training workshop on Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC), Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) and WHONET, 10-11 August 2023 at GMC Aurangabad
Training and Workshop on Genome Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 using Oxford Nanopore Sequencer under USAID RISE at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Nagpur, 19th – 23rd May 2022
Training Program for VRDLs (2019/03), 24th April to 01st May 2019 at Resource Centre for VRDLs (RCVRDL), Diagnostic Virology Group, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pashan, Pune

Shendre P, Poddar S, Chavan S, Sharma R, Agrawal G, Shrikhande S..Faucial diphtheria infection caused due to Corynebacterium striatum in a paediatric patient – A rare case report from central India. Microbiologia Medica. 2025 Jun 5;40(1).

Tiwari V, Shendre P, Nag S, Mishra M, Roy M, Dwidmuthe S.Peri-prosthetic Joint Infection due to Candida albicans in a Young Immunocompetent Patient – A Rare Case Report.Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports. 2024 Feb;14(2):160

Mishra M, Shendre P, Gade N, Shete V, Nag S, Dutta SV. Impact of BioFire FilmArray Multiplex PCR in the Detection of Microbial Agents causing Severe Acute Respiratory Infection in the COVID-19 Era: A Cross-sectional Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Central India. Journal of Clinical & Diagnostic Research. 2024 Jan 1;18(1)

Shete V, Mishra M, Gade N, Nag S, Shendre P. A Brief Update on Inter-lab Quality Control (ILQC) Activities for COVID-19 RT-PCR by AIIMS Nagpur. Cureus. 2024 May 4;16(5)

Shete Vishal, Mishra Meena, Akkilagunta Sujiv, Bidkar Vijay, Gade Neeta, Nag Soumyabrata, Shendre Pooja, Patil Divya. Comparative RT-PCR Cycle Threshold Value Dynamics Among Asymptomatic to Symptomatic Patients of SARS-CoV-2: A Retrospective Analysis.Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4242250

???? Dr. Suresh Jalgaonkar Best Poster Presentation Award at 5th Annual Conference of Vidarbha Association of Medical Microbiologists, Datta Meghe Medical College, Nagpur (29th–31st Mar 2024).
???? Best Poster Award – MAHAMICROCON 2019 XXV Maharashtra State Chapter Conference of IAMM, NKPSIMS & RC Nagpur (20th–22nd Sept 2019)
???? Batch topper in MD Microbiology (Summer 2017) MUHS Exam, MGIMS, Sewagram

Resource Person

Resource person, Workshop on “Combating Resistance: Advanced Methods on CRE Detection” in VAMMCON 2025, AIIMS Nagpur.
Resource person for Regional Training of STI laboratories on Implementation of Enhanced Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (EGASP) in India 25th-26th September 2024
Facilitator, Hands on Workshop on ELISA and RTPCR Techniques for diagnosis of human viral infections held on 27th-28th August 2019 at VRDL, IGGMC, Nagpur

Editor, Microfocus (Newsletter of Vidarbha Association of Medical Microbiologists) for the year 2025-26
Co-Editor, Microfocus (Newsletter of Vidarbha Association of Medical Microbiologists) for the year 2023-24

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