Paediatric Endocrinologist
6 years experience overall
Apollo Children’s Hospitals 15, Shafi Mohammed Road Thousand Lights Chennai 600 006 PH:044-2829 6262, Chennai
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
English,Hindi,Tamil
Female
Apollo Children’s Hospitals 15, Shafi Mohammed Road Thousand Lights Chennai 600 006 PH:044-2829 6262, Chennai, Tamil Nadu - 600006