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Dr. Suma Balan

Professor, Department of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Kochi

Qualification: MBBS, MD
sumab@aims.amrita.edu

Bio

Dr Suma Balan trained in India at JIPMER in Paediatrics following which she went to the UK and undertook a rigorous tertiary paediatric training programme from Nottingham,UK (the second largest Children’s Hospital attendances in the UK) with further focussed Special Interest training in Paediatric Rheumatology. Her areas of interest are juvenile idiopathic arthritis, J SLE and regional pain syndromes in childhood.

She has presented and published in international paediatric rheumatology and nephrology conferences and is an active member of the paediatric rheumatology faculty in India. Dr. Suma Balan currently serves as Professor at the Department of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Kochi.

 

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2021

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a neonate, temporally associated with prenatal exposure to SARS-CoV-2: a case report

Cite this Research Publication : Prof Mahesh Kappanayil, Suma Balan, Sujata Alawani, Satish Mohanty, Sreelakshmi P Leeladharan, Sreja Gangadharan, Jessin P Jayashankar, Soumya Jagadeesan, Prof Anil Kumar, Atul Gupta, Prof Raman Krishna Kumar "Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a neonate, temporally associated with prenatal exposure to SARS-CoV-2: a case report"

Publisher : Lancet Child Adolesc Health,

Year : 2021

Management of rheumatic diseases in the time of covid-19 pandemic: perspectives of rheumatology practitioners from India.

Cite this Research Publication : L. Gupta, Misra, D. Prasanna, Agarwal, V., Balan, S., and Agarwal, V., “Management of rheumatic diseases in the time of covid-19 pandemic: perspectives of rheumatology practitioners from India.”, Ann Rheum Dis, vol. 80, no. 1, p. e1, 2021.

Year : 2016

Approach to Joint Pain in Children.

Cite this Research Publication : S. Balan, “Approach to Joint Pain in Children.”, Indian J Pediatr, vol. 83, no. 2, pp. 135-9, 2016.

Publisher : Indian J Pediatr

Year : 2010

Approach to a child with monoarthritis

Cite this Research Publication : A. S. Prabhu and Balan, S., “Approach to a child with monoarthritis”, Indian Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 77, pp. 997-1004, 2010.

Publisher : Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Qualification
  • MBBS: JIPMER, Pondicherry
  • MD Paediatrics: JIPMER, Pondicherry
  • MRCP Paediatrics (UK)
  • CCST UK
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