Chandigarh : Dr. Pankaj Nepal, Junior Resident, Department of Radiodiagnosis was awarded Dr. S.K. Agrawal Best Paper Award (2nd prize in the oral scientific paper presentation) at the recently concluded SAARC congress of Radiology, organized by Radiological Society of SAARC countries, held at Dharan, Nepal ,on 16-19th Februray,2012. More than 800 delegates attended this SAARC conference which included speakers from USA, UK, France, Italy, Singapore, Austria, besides leading speakers from India and SAARC nations. He presented his work on ‘’The Role Of Spinal Ultrasound In Infants Presenting With Meningitis & Correlation With Lumbar Puncture’’, a study which is being conducted in department of Radiodiagnosis, PGI, under supervision of Dr. Kushaljit Singh Sodhi, Associate Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis and Prof. S. Singhi, Professor and Head, Department of Pediatrics.