Faculty & Staff

Qualification/ Education

Fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology, Bangalore, India 2003

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London 2019

PhD in Pediatric Nephrology, 2023

Observership in Paediatric Nephrology:

Great Ormond Children’s Hospital, London (Nov-Dec 2003)

University of Minnesota, USA (April-May 2007)

Montreal Children’s Hospital, Canada (April-May 2010)

Areas of interest

Paediatric chronic kidney disease and Paediatric Renal Nutrition

Extramural portfolios/ Committees

National roles:
a. Convenor, Remote clinical research mentorship program, ISCR-ACCRI
b. Member, Fellowship committee, Indian Society of Paediatric Nephrology
c. Member, Consensus guidelines for UTI, ISPN
d. Member, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Nephrology
e. Member, National Dialysis Committee, National Health Authority of India

International roles:
a. Chair, Clinical Research Program of the International Society of Nephrology
b. Lead, ISN Mentorship program
c. Subject Editor, ISN Academy
d. Working group member, ISN-WHO project on ESKD for LMICs
e. Executive member, South Asian Regional Board of the ISN
f. Convenor, Scientific Writing Course, International Society of Nephrology
g. Member, ISN-IPNA (International Society of Nephrology- International Paediatric Nephrology Association) webinar committee
h. Member, ISN – SYL (Saving Young Lives) Advisory Board
i. Editorial Board member, Frontiers in Paediatrics
j. Editorial Board member, Peritoneal Dialysis International
k. International Consensus Committee member, paediatric Acute Disease Quality Initiative (pADQI-2021)
l. Working group member, The ISN framework for developing dialysis programs in low resource settings. https://www.theisn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ISN-Framework-Dialysis-Report-HIRES.pdf.

Institutional portfolios/ Committees

Institutional roles:
a. Member, OPD committee of the hospital
b. Convenor, case reporting on “Covid-related mucormycosis.”
c. Member, anti-ragging committee
d. Member, St John’s Creche committee
e. Member, Paediatric PG Curriculum, RGUHS

Membership of professional associations/bodies

Clinical expert for a Training module on Clinical pharmacology- an ICMR project

Awards and Recognitions

ISN-Recognitions:      

• Recipient of the ISN CRP Grant 2010
• ISN R&P Appreciation Award WCN, Vancouver 2011
• Best ISN CRP Poster award, WCN Hong Kong 2013
• Best Paper award, Satellite meeting, WCN Hong Kong 2013 
• Recipient of the Schrier Award, WCN Cape Town 2015
• Invited speaker, WCN Cape Town 2015
• Invited speaker, IPNA Venice 2019
• Invited speaker, ISN Frontiers meeting Delhi, 2022
• Invited speaker, WCN SYL course 2023, Bangkok