Our Faculty

• Neonatology
• Management of Critically Ill Newborns
• Neonatal Procedural Competence including Central Line Insertion, Umbilical Catheterization, Exchange Transfusion, and Neonatal Dialysis
• Neonatal Resuscitation
• Neonatal Nutrition

• MBBS
  Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi (2007)
• MD (Pediatrics)
  Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi (2011)
• Fellowship in Neonatology
  Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi (2013)
• MRCPCH
  Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, UK (2016)

• Associate Professor and Consultant
  Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi (July 2013 – Present)

• 10th Annual conference of Paediatric cardiac society of India at AIMS, Kerala in Nov-2008.
• 38th Annual conference of Endocrinology society of India at AIMS, Kerala in Dec 2008.
• Completed Orthopedic Instructional course 2009 – Pediatric foot at Kochi in April 2009
• Participated in workshop on good clinical practice in March 2009 at AIMS, Kochi.
• CME in Clinical Endocrinology; Organized by Dept of Endocrinology & Diabetes. Aug 1-2, 2009, at AIMS – Kochi.
• Completed “Advanced Cardiac Life Support” course conducted at Amrita.
• Attended South Pedicon 2009 at Mahabalipuram in Aug 2009
• Attended CME – Advances in Pediatrics at AIMS- Kochi in Aug 2009.
• Completed NRP course at EMC , Kochi in Aug 2009 .
• Genetics For Pediatricians; Held on 8th September 2009 at AIMS – Kochi.
• Attended Mid term CME Programme; Kerala Association of Neurologists. Held at Thrissur 13th December 2009.
• 47th National conference of Indian Academy Pediatrics PEDICON; 7-10 January 2010, Hyderabad.
• The Amrita Pediatric Endocrinology update 2010; 13th March 2010.
• UNIVENT 2010; The southern regional workshop on Non-Invasive Ventilation. Department of Pulmonary Medicine. Held on 14th march; AIMS- Kochi.
• Completed “Advanced Paediatric Life Support” training program conducted by the Bridges Social Development Canada on the 12th – 14th of May 2010.
• Attended “PIDCON”, 13th Pediatric infectious disease conference held at Cochin on the 25th – 26th September 2010.
• Completed “Basic life support” course conducted by the American Heart Association (AHA), at Kottayam on the 21st of October 2010.
• Attended “NCPCC”, 12th National conference on Pediatric critical care held at Surat on 29th – 31st of October 2010.
• Completed Certificate course on “Law and Medicine”
• Completed “Pediatric Advanced Life Support” course held at kottayam on 11th -12th Jan 2011.
• Attended the Pediatric Academic societies meet held at Boston, USA in May 2012.
• Attended the Kerala NEOCON, 2013 held at Thrissur.
• Completed training for the PALS instructor course held at Kottayam in February 2013.
• Attended the Pediatric Academic Societies meet held at Washington DC, USA in April – May 2013.
• Attended the International Congress of Pediatrics held at Melbourne, Australia from 24-29 august 2013.
• Attended the Pediatric Academic Societies meet held at Vancouver, Canada in April – May 2014

Scientific Presentations

• Co- author for poster presentation at National Pediatrics Conference PEDICON 2009 at Bangalore in Jan 2009.
• Presented poster  “Auto immune Hemolyic Anemia with Giant cell Hepatitis” at South Pedicon 2009 at Mahabalipuram in Aug 2009.
• Oral presentation at Kerala association of Neurologist- Mid term CME programme held at Thrissur in Dec 2009, Floppy baby with a large head – Walker Warburg syndrome.
• Poster presentation on Antenatal diagnosis of bilateral dysplastic kidneys; at National Pediatric conference Pedicon 2010 at Hyderabad in Jan 2009.
• Oral Paper presentation on Caudal regression syndrome – A case series at National Pediatric conference Pedicon 2010 at Hyderabad in Jan 2009.
• Poster presentation on An unusual cause of Abdominal Angina, At the 12th National conference on Pediatric critical care held at Surat on 29th – 31st of October 2010.
• Co-author in e-poster presentation on ‘A Case Of “ABDOMINAL ANGINA” In An Adolesecent Boy’, at the 1st Global Congress for Consensus in Pediatric and Child Health held at Paris, France on 17th -20th of Feb 2011.
• Co-author in e-poster presentation on ‘An Unusual cause of Fulminant Hepatic Failure’, at the 1st Global Congress for Consensus in Pediatric and Child Health held at Paris, France on 17th -20th of Feb 2011.
• Presented poster titled “Are the risk factors associated with the development of ROP different in developing countries” at the Pediatric academic societies meet held at Boston, USA in May 2012.
• Presented oral paper titled “Are the risk factors associated with the development of ROP different in developing countries” at the Kerala NEOCON held at Thrissur, Kerala in February 2013
• Presented poster titled “Extrauterine Growth Retardation – Associated factors, incidence and outcomes in preterm infants in a tertiary care NICU in India” at the Pediatric academic societies meet held at Washington DC, USA in April – May 2013.
• Co author in poster presented on “Vitamin D deficiency and morbidity in Preterm Infants in the NICU in a developing country” at the International Congress of Pediatrics held at Melbourne, Australia from 24-29 august 2013.
• Presented poster on “Extra Uterine Growth Retardation (EUGR) – Associated factors, incidence and outcomes in preterm infants in a tertiary care NICU in India” at the International Congress of Pediatrics held at Melbourne, Australia from 24-29 august 2013.
• Co author in poster presented on “Medical management of Symptomatic PDA (SPDA) in infants – A controlled study of Paracetamol to Ibuprofen” at the International Congress of Pediatrics held at Melbourne, Australia from 24-29 august 2013.
• Presented poster on “High Prevalence of Vitamin K (K) dependent coagulopathy in preterm infants despite Vitamin K administration at birth in India” at the International Congress of Pediatrics held at Melbourne, Australia from 24-29 august 2013.
• Presented poster on “A Controlled Study of Erythropoietin Administration and the Outcome in VLBW Infants in a Developing Country” at the Pediatric academic societies meet held at Vancouver, Canada in May 2013.
• Presented poster on “Factors Predicting Mortality in Infants With CDH on the First Day of Life in a Developing Country” at the Pediatric academic societies meet held at Vancouver, Canada in May 2013.
• Presented poster on “Medical Management of PDA in VLBW Infants Using Paracetamol – A Controlled Study” at the Pediatric academic societies meet held at Vancouver, Canada in May 2013.
• Scientific talk on Extra uterine growth retardation for the Pan Africa teleconference on 14/10/2014.
• Guest speaker for the Trivandrum Obstetric and Gynecological monthly meet held on 18/10/2014. Topic – Late preterm infants.
• Guest speaker for Cochin obstetrics and gynecology club annual meet on 6th -7th December 2014. Topic – PPROM and neonatal outcome.
• Author of poster on ‘Effects of Early Administration of EPO (erythropoietin) in VLBW Infants and Neurodevelopmental Outcome’ at the pediatric academic societies meet held at San Diego, USA in May 2015. Poster presented by Jayasree C.
• Conducted workshop on Neonatal and Pediatric Ventilation at Kottayam  medical college for residents and faculty of Kottayam medical college by Ashwin S Prabhu, Satyajith Nair, and Akansha Jain.
• Co-author of poster presented on ‘Short term and Early Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Infants born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) in a Developing Country’. Presented at the Pediatric academic societies meet at Baltimore USA in April- May 2016 by Jayasree C.
• Author of poster on ‘Impact of a Nutritional Guideline on the incidence of Extra Uterine Growth Restriction (EUGR) and Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Preterm Infants’. Presented at Pediatric academic societies meet at San Francisco, USA May 6-9, 2017.
• Guest speaker on “Management of Rh isoimmunization in Newborn” at FETOCON held at Kochi from 17-19th Nov 2017.
• Faculty Speaker on ‘Neonatal Resucitation Update’ at AETLS ’18 Emergency Medicine conference held at Kochi from 5-7th March 2018.
• Faculty Speaker on ‘Neonatal Transport’ at State NEOCON 2019, held at Kochi on the 12th -13th of January 2019.
• Faculty Speaker on ‘Neonatal Resuscitation and Post resuscitation stabilization’ at the Cardiology Transport CME held at Amrita Institute of Medical sciences, Kochi on the 1st Feb 2019.
• Faculty Speaker on ‘Identification of sepsis in neonates with Congenital heart disease’ at the Preoperative management of congenital heart disease CME held at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi from 7-9 June 2019.
• Faculty speaker for an internantional webinar on “Children’s HeartLink CoE Webinar Series Session #1: Challenges in Pediatric Heart Surgery in Low Resource Environments: Multidisciplinary Management” on 19th august 2020.
• Faculty speaker on ‘Neonatal Nutrition’ at AETCM Emergency Medicine CME held on 15th November 2021 at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.
• Guest speaker on Panel Discussion held on the topic ‘Nutrition in ICUs’ at AETCM Emergency Medicine CME held on 15th November 2021 at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.
• Faculty Speaker on ‘Neonatal Transport’ at monthy IAP meet, held at IMA house Kochi on the 13th November 2022.
• Faculty Speaker at Cochin Obstetric and Gynaecology Society on PPROM and neonatal Outcomes in May 2023.
• Invited Speaker at the IMA west Cochin meeting on Congenital Hypothyroidism in April 2024.

GRAND ROUNDS Presentation AIMS:

• “A Gigantic Challenge” – A case of Autoimmune hemolytic anemia with Giant cell hepatitis.
• “An Unusual Cause of Fulminant Hepatic Failure”.
• “Prevent: better than cure” – A case of I-cell disease. (Pediatric Genetics)