Dr. Deepashree R

Doctors Details

MD, DNB, MNAMS (Microbiology)

Microbiology

Assistant Professor, Assistant Surveillance officer, HIC Antimicrobial stewardship officer

Languages Spoken :
Kannada, English, Hindi, Tulu

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Microbiology

Dr. Deepashree R, is presently working as Assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology. She is a Gold medallist and a postgraduate alumni of JSS Medical college. She completed her MBBS from K.S. Hegde Medical academy. She has completed 3 years senior residency in hospital infection control, antimicrobial stewardship and clinical Microbiology in Dept of Microbiology, JIPMER, Puducherry. She presently working as Assistant surveillance officer, HIC and Antimicrobial stewardship officer, JSS Hospital. .She is a motivated, enthusiastic and dedicated educator who is committed to the academic growth of her students. She is involved in teaching medical, paramedical UG and PG students. She is passionate about research activities and has guided MSc medical Microbiology students, MBBS students, and Msc students from various other institutions in their project work. Her main focus is hospital infection control and antimicrobial stewardship.

Clinical Microbiologist
Hospital Infection control
Antimicrobial stewardship

Member, Indian Academy of Medical Microbiologists

Ongoing projects:

Impact of conducting hand hygiene audit in COVID-19 care locations of India—A large scale national multicentric study

[Role – PI]

Effectiveness of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines against severe COVID-19 in India, 2021: Multi-centric hospital-based case control study [Role – Co – PI]
Surveillance of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria for the VITEK®2 user centres—A large scale national multicentric study

[Role – Regional coordinator and Co – PI]

Comparison of antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods for colistin against carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae in a tertiary care hospital of Southern India.

[Role – PI]

A Multimodal interventional strategy to increase hand hygiene compliance in Intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital in South India – ICMR STS. [Role – Guide]

Publications:

Deepashree R, Khanum S, Tejashree A, Prasad N. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage among health care personnel in nonoutbreak settings in tertiary care hospital in Mysore. American journal of infection control. 2021 Jun 25.
Sarumathi D, Rajashekar D, Sastry AS. Comparison of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods for Colistin against Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Southern India. Journal of Clinical & Diagnostic Research. 2020 Jul 1;14(7).
Sarumathi D, Anitha G, Deepashree R, Rajeev Thilak C, Sastry AS. A Case Report of Cardiobacterium hominis Endocarditis in a Pregnant Woman. Cureus. 2020 Aug;12(8).
Samantamy S, Deepashree AC, Anitha AS. Linezolid resistant Enterococcus faecium in sepsis.&n

Third place prize in National level QUIZ in First National Conference-cum workshop on Antimicrobial Stewardship Practices in India, ASPICON 2018; AIIMS-RISHIKESH, December 3rd -4th, 2018
First place prize in Poster competition on ‘Appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy for culture, proven blood stream infections’’ in First National Conference-cum workshop on Antimicrobial Stewardship Practices in India, ASPICON 2018; AIIMS-RISHIKESH
MD Microbiology – Gold Medallist, JSSMC, JSS University, Mysore. Karnataka

Author, Essentials of Infection control, first edition
Co-editor, Essentials of Medical Microbiology, second edition and third edition
3 years of experience as senior resident in Hospital infection control and antimicrobial stewardship in JIPMER, Pondicherry
Guest Speaker: 25 at various institutes including JIPMER, AIIMS Raipur, and AIIMS Rhishikesh.
Resource Person : in more than 10 events including HICC Workshop at HISICON 2021, JIPMER HIC workshop AIIMS Raipur, AIIMS Rishikesh and MICROCON 2017 AIIMS Ranchi.