Neonatology and Perinatology

David James Riddell Hutchon has 28 years of experience as a Consultant Obstetrician. In 2003, he realized that clamping the umbilical cord quickly after birth severely disrupted neonatal circulation and interfered with transition. He has published and lectured extensively on the subject and co-operating with UK and international colleagues developed equipment and ways of providing neonatal resuscitation at the side of the mother without clamping the cord. He has co-authored a chapter on neonatal care immediately after birth, co-authored two Cochrane systematic reviews, and has organized five international conferences on the subject of mother side neonatal resuscitation.

Obstetrics, Neonatal Resuscitation

Sajjad ur Rahman is currently working as Clinical Director of Critical Care Pediatrics in HMG Hospitals Riyadh Saudi Arabia. He worked as Senior Consultant Neonatal Perinatal Medicine and Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics in Hamad Medical Corporation and Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College in Doha State of Qatar from 2008 till 2015. He has worked as Professor and Chairman Department of Pediatrics at Peshawar Medical College Peshawar Pakistan. He did his FCPS (Pediatrics) from Pakistan and FRCPCH from UK where he trained in Neonatology and neurodevelopmental Pediatrics. He did his Fellowship in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine from The Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto Canada. He worked as Consultant Neonatologist in UK from 2001-2007. He worked as a co-researcher in many international MRCT’s. He has special interest in Perinatal Epidemiology. He initiated and worked as Lead PI of Perinatal Neonatal Outcomes Research Study in the Arabian Gulf (PEARL Study) which developed Qatar’s first national maternal, neonatal and perinatal database registry called Q-Peri-Reg. He has contributed a number of international publications and a book chapter on Neonatal Mortality and its correlates. He also has a special interest in Perinatal asphyxia, Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy and Therapeutic Hypothermia. He worked as a co-researcher in TOBY trial. He initiated and has been leading his own MRCT “Magcool Study.” He is currently on the editorial board of Journal of Clinical Neonatology (JCN) and World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a reviewer for a number of international journals. He is also an examiner for Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health London. He has delivered invited lectures and presentations in dozens of national, regional and international conferences on Perinatal Epidemiology, Therapeutic Hypothermia and Non-Invasive Ventilation. His first book on Perinatal Mortality was published in 2012 and his second book "Neonatal and Perinatal Mortality: Global Challenges, Risk Factors and Interventions” was published in 2016.

Pediatrics and Neonatology

Gayatri Jape is a consultant neonatologist at Department of Health, Government of Western Australia. Her topics of interest are probiotics, neonatal nutrition and long term neurodevelopment in preterms

Probiotics, neonatal nutrition and long term neurodevelopment in preterms

Lata Bhat completed her MRCPCH (UK) in 2003 and has been conferred FRCPCH (London) in 2015.She did fellowship in neonatology from London in 2005. Prior to that she did Post graduation in Pediatrics from Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi in 1991.She has about 25 years of experience in Neonatology. Currently she is working as a Senior Consultant Neonatologist in Indraprastha Apollo hospital at Delhi, India which is a popular corporate hospital. She has 21 publications in reputed National and International journals, 2 research publications in American journal of Neonatal Biology and she has co-Authored 5 books. Her areas of special interest are use of Bubble CPAP in neonates with respiratory failure and follow up of high risk babies. She is the Founder President of Foundation for High risk babies and Child Development and Convener of Indian Foundation of Preterm Babies

Use of Bubble CPAP in neonates with respiratory failure and follow up of high risk babies

Prashanth Gouda has completed his graduation in medicine at the age of 24 years from Rajiv Gandhi University Bangalore and postgraduate studies from King George Medical University, Lucknow India. He has served at several reputed medical institutions and research centers in India including KLE University and PGIMER Chandigarh. He is currently serves as faculty of Pediatrics at College of Medicine and Health Sciences, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, Oman. He has published more than 40 papers in various journals and has been serving reputed international pediatrics and neonatology journals as editorial board member and referee.

Neonatology