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Dr SOUNDARAM V

Paediatric Endocrinologist

M.B.B.S., M.D.( Paediatrics), Fellowship in Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, ESPE fellow ( King’s Collge NHS Foundation Trust , London)

6 years experience overall

Apollo Children’s Hospitals 15, Shafi Mohammed Road Thousand Lights Chennai 600 006 PH:044-2829 6262, Chennai

Specialities
Experience
  • 3 Years of Post Graduation in Pediatrics  – May 2011 to April 2014
  • 11 months as Registrar in Sooriya hospital, Chennai from Nov 2014 to July 2015 and from Dec 2015 till April 2016.
  • 10 months as registrar in Kanchi Kamakoti childs trust hospital , Chennai which includes 7 months in Dept of Pediatric Endocrinology from Dec 2016 to June 2017.
  • 1 year as fellow in Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health , Bengaluru from July 3, 2017 to July 2, 2018.
  • 5 months as Registrar at Rainbow Children’s Hospital , Chennai from Aug 2018 to Dec 2018.
  • Currently working as Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at Apollo Children’s hospital, Chennai from Jan 10 , 2019  and Apollo Proton Cancer Center , Chennai from March 2020 .
  • 3 months as clinical fellow in Kings’s College hospital NHS Foundation Trust , London , England. Gained good experience in diabetes technology (Continuous glucose monitors , insulin pump ) ,  bariatric clinics , endo-gynaec clinics, premature ovarian failure clinics and general paediatric endocrinology clinics .

 

Members ship
  • European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) Clinical Fellowship at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,  London , United Kingdom
  • Fellowship in Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health , RGUHS university, August 2018
  • M.D. Paediatrics- Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , April 2014
  • Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support Provider - Course conducted by Manipal University, September 2011
  • M.B.B.S.- Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry University, December 2009.
Certifications

1. Secured 2nd place in college round of 21st IAP Pediatric quiz for undergraduates, held at PIMS in 2008.

2. Secured 3rd place in intra college psychiatry quiz in October 2007.

3. Awarded Short term Studentship (STS) by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for a period of two months during 2007 for the project titled Fetal monitoring by DFMC(Daily Fetal Movement Count) and NST (Non Stress Test) – does it improve fetal outcome? (21/461/2007)- BMS

4. Secured 1st place in the Divisional Round of 6th IAP Pediatric Quiz for postgraduates, held at KMC Mangalore in 2012

5. Secured 2nd place in the State round of 6th IAP pediatric Quiz for postgraduates conducted during Karnataka state Pedicon 2012

6. Secured 2nd place in the Divisional Round of 7th IAP Pediatric Quiz for postgraduates held at KMC Mangalore in 2013.

7. Attended the ISPAE-PET and APPES Fellows school 2017 held at Pollachi , Tamil Nadu, India.

8. Attended the first instructional course on Paediatric Metabolic bone disease and skeletal dysplasias conducted by the Skeletal dysplasia group, U.K at St.John’s Medical College, Bengaluru in October 2017.

9.Selected as a participant for the 18th ISPAD Science School for physicians 2018  held at Kanagawa, Japan.

10. Was invited as a speaker to give lecture on “Approach to short stature” at the CME organized by Institute of Child Health, Chennai on Jan 28th , 2019 .

11. Organised the CME on “Approach to DSD” and gave a talk on “Endocrine evaluation of DSD”  at Salem IAP chapter on 5/5/2019.

12. Was an invited speaker on “Endocrine disorders in adolescents” at the CME organized by the Trichy IAP chapter on 16/5/21.

13. Organised the “ The 1st paediatric pituitary conference” (virtual conference) on Oct 10th , 2021 and “the 2nd Paediatric pituitary conference” (virtual) on Dec 4th , 2022

14. Organised CME on “Practical management of diabetes in children” at Apollo Children’s hospital for the nurses and post graduates on 25th Nov , 2021 .

15. Gave lecture on “ Approach to short stature and recent updates “ on 17/8/2022 in the CME organised by Chengalpattu Medical College and Hospital .

16.I am a teaching faculty for postgraduate students at Apollo Children’s Hospital.

17.I am a teaching faculty for the online diabetes education courses conducted by ISPAE(Indian Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology) – BEST , IDEAL courses

 

THESIS

 "Study of Total Parenteral Nutrition in Very low birth weight neonates” during MD.

PRESENTATIONS

1. Presented paper (oral presentation) “Fetal monitoring by DFMC(Daily Fetal Movement Count) and NST (Non Stress Test) – does it improve fetal outcome? “ at the first Asian and Second National Students’ Research conference , Pune Feb 2008 organised by Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine, Pune.

2. Presented poster on “Efficacy and safety of total parenteral nutrition(TPN) in infants weighing less than 1250 grams  – a case control study” at the golden Jubilee National conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics in 2013

3. Presented paper (oral presentation) “Pfeiffer  syndrome  with  extreme  proptosis,  hypothyroidism  and  tail  like appendage “ at the golden Jubilee National conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics in 2013

4. Presented poster of the above said at the Indo-US symposium on Disorders of Developing Brain , 2012.

5. Presented poster “VACTERL association with truncus arteriosus and unilateral radial aplasia in a neonate” at the Manipal Cardiology update -2012.

6.Presented poster on “Clinical and Genetic characteristics of infants with congenital hyperinsulinism” at the ISPAE- 2017 conference .

7.Presented paper “Type 1 diabetes – it’s not just insulin; a study assessing various factors affecting metabolic control” at the ISPAD Science School for physicians 2018 held at Kanagawa, Japan.

 

PUBLICATIONS

1. Pfeiffer Syndrome with Extreme Proptosis, Hypothyroidism and Tail like appendage

Oman medical journal 2014, Vol 29, no.5

 

2.Postnatal growth and short term complications in very low birth weight neonates receiving total parenteral nutrition ; Indian J Child health 2016 Feb 22

3. Association of VACTERL with truncus arteriosus, left sided aortic arch, hypoplastic pulmonary arteries, and severe radial axis defect. Iranian J of Neonatology 2017 Dec: 8(4)

4. Rabson Mendenhall syndrome with medullary nephrocalcinosis- a novel mutation reported. VIMS Health Science Journal Vol 5, Number 1, March 2018, pg 40-41

5.Successful matched unrelated donor hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for Infantile Wolman disease – Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal , 2022

6. LPL gene mutation in Type 1 familial Triglyceridemia presenting as Recurrent pancreatitis and complicated by COVID 19 . J Pediatr  Genet 2022

 

Services
Languages spoken

English,Hindi,Tamil

Gender

Female

Apollo Children Hospital Chennai

Apollo Children’s Hospitals 15, Shafi Mohammed Road Thousand Lights Chennai 600 006 PH:044-2829 6262, Chennai, Tamil Nadu - 600006