Dr. Vinay Timothy Oommen, MD

Educational Qualifications

Professional Experience

Administrative Responsibilities

1. Head of the Department of Physiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore

2. Council Secretary, Christian Medical College, Vellore

3. Vice Principal (UG) at Christian Medical College, Vellore

Research interests

Electrophysiology of chondrocytes

Current projects

Electrophysiological characterization of ion channel expression in cultured bovine chondrocytes.

Research Presentations

Analysis of Voltage Gated Potassium Channels in Ovine chondrocytes using the Patch Clamp Technique. Presented at APPICON 2008, which was awarded the R Srinivasan Prize for the best post-graduate research presentation.

Professional memberships

1. Member of the Association of Physiologists of Tamil Nadu (APT)

2. Member of the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India (APPI)

Publications

1. Laxmi Govindraj, Samuel Santhosh, Serin Cheruvathoor Sunish, Abinaya Vannapatti Gopalakrishnan, Sujith J Chandy, Vinay Oommen and Margaret Shanthi Fx. Effectiveness of teaching medical ethics to medical students on an online platform: An analysis of students' perceptions and feedback. Indian J Med Ethics. 2023 Jan-Mar;VIII(1):32-38. https://doi.org/10.20529/ijme.2022.034

2. Prince N, Rajendran E, Sidharthan A, Amirtham SM, Kanthakumar P, Oommen V and Bhaskar A. Rat skeletal muscle-nerve preparation to teach skeletal muscle physiology. Adv Physiol Educ 45: 869–879, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00143.2020

3. Jennifer Cleland, Vinay Oommen and Amudha S Poobalan. Considering medical education research: Selection into medical school. Current Medical Issues. January 2021. 19(3):194.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/cmi.cmi_28_21

4. Mathew AJ, Nundy M, Chandrashekaran N and Oommen V. Wrestle while you learn: EMG as a teaching tool for undergraduate skeletal muscle physiology teaching. Adv Physiol Educ. 2019 Dec 1;43(4):467-471. [Pubmed] [PDF]

5. Elizabeth Vinod, Deepak Vinod Francis, Tripti Jacob, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Solomon Sathishkumar, Praghalathan Kanthakumar, and Vinay Timothy Oommen. Autologous Platelet Rich Fibrin as a Scaffold for Chondrocyte Culture and Transplantation: An in Vitro Bovine Study. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma. 2019.

6. Mathew AJ, Chandrasekaran N, Oommen V. All play and no work: skits and models in teaching skeletal muscle physiology. Adv Physiol Educ. 2018 Jun 1;42(2):242-246. [Pubmed] [PDF] 

7. Prince N, Oommen V and Bhaskar A. Chicken intestine: an alternative to the mammalian intestine for physiology experimentation. Adv Physiol Educ. 2018 Jun 1;42(2):387-389. [Pubmed] [PDF] 

8. Bhaskar A and Oommen V. A simple model for demonstrating the factors affecting glomerular filtration rate. Adv Physiol Educ. 2018 Jun 1;42(2):380-382. [Pubmed] [PDF] 

9. Sajal SC, Bhaskar A and Oommen V. Pumping the pulse: a bicycle pump to simulate the arterial pulse waveform. Adv Physiol Edu. 2018 June;42(2):256-259. [Pubmed] [PDF]

10. Vinay Oommen, Gnanasenthil Ganesh, Kamalakannan Vadivel and Praghalathan Kanthakumar. The Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation: A Three Dimensional Teaching Model.  Indian J Physiol Pharmacol 2016: 60(1):70-75 [PDF]

11. Oommen V and Kanthakumar P. The gastro-intestinal system: a piece of cake. Adv Physiol Edu. 2015 Jun;39(2):128. [Pubmed] [PDF]

12. Oommen V and Kanthakumar P. A simple model of the accommodating lens of the human eye.  Adv Physiol Edu. 2014 Jun;38(2):183-184. [Pubmed] [PDF]

13. Kanthakumar P and Oommen V.  A simple model to demonstrate perfusion and diffusion limitation of gases. Adv Physiol Edu. 2012 Dec;36(4):352-355. [Pubmed] [PDF]

14. Oommen V, Kanthakumar P, Bhaskar A, Jared S, Snekalatha S, Joseph A and Kamalakannan V. Learning physiology made simple and fun: A review of teaching resources from the journal advances in physiology education. International Journal of Basic and Applied Physiology. 2012; 1(1): 182-191 [PDF]

15. Kanthakumar P and Oommen V.  A simple model to demonstrate the balance of forces at functional  residual capacity. Adv Physiol Edu. 2012 Jun;36(2):170-171. [Pubmed] [PDF]  

16. Oommen V and Subramani S. Analysis of depolarization-induced outward currents in goat chondrocytes using the patch clamp technique. Indian J. Physiol. Pharmacol.2010 Dec; 54(4):361-365. [Pubmed] [PDF]