Group Members

Dr. Sourabh Dutta, MBBS and MD (Pediatrics) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi PhD (Neonatology) from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh Awarded FRCPC in Pediatrics and FRCPC in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine by Royal College of Physicians of Canada, in November 2011 Currently Professor of Neonatology in the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and Additional Professor of Pediatrics, PGIMER, Chandigarh. Authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles in indexed journals.

Professor, PGIMER, Chandigarh.

He is working as Professor of Pharmacology in PGIMER, Chandigarh. Is a member of many pharmacological societies like British Pharmacological Society, American College of Clinical Pharmacology , Life Member Indian Pharmacological Society, Indian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology, Life member International Society for Heart Research, Indian Section, Member of the Science Advisory Board, U.K. He is in the editorial committee of various journals and has many national and international publications to his credit. Has a keen interest in Evidence Based Health care.

MD (Physician),MD (Pharmacology),DM,FCP
Professor, Deptt. Of Pharmacology, PGIMER

Dr. Bhavneet Bharti is a pediatrician working as Professor in the Dept of Pediatrics PGIMER, Chandigarh. She has also done masters in Hospital and Healthcare Administration. She has done training in statistics from Punjab University, Chandigarh. She has done diplomate in environment and child health from WHO & American Academy of pediatricians. She has many national and international publications in various indexed and non-indexed journals. Her research specializations include Acute respiratory Infections, Child Nutrition, School & community health, Sleep disorders in children and epidemiology & immunization.

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER

Dr. Joseph L. Mathew is a Pediatric Pulmonologist at the Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He has developed expertise in three areas of health-care viz pediatric respiratory disease, immunization/ vaccines of public health importance, and evidence-informed health-care. Dr. Mathew is a pioneer of the EBM movement in India; he was a founding member of the South Asian Cochrane Network Centre, and continues to be a Member of the Steering Group.. He created the EURECA section published in Indian Pediatrics. Dr. Mathew has attempted to bridge the gap between research evidence and clinical practice through his involvement with Health Technology Assessment (HTA). He is the Founder Chair of the HTAi and the Programme Manager of the SIGNET Capacity and Capability Building Initiative for health-care professionals, in the science of evidence-informed decision-making in health-care.

Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Currently working as Additional Professor in Department of Pharmacology. She is a Clinical Pharmacologist. She has two Cochrane reviews published to her credit. She has been author of some books and has chapters published in various other books. She has over 40 publications in indexed in pubmed and over 13 publications in non-indexed journals. She is a life member of many scientific societies. She has won many awards for paper presentations at various conferences (national & international).

Additional Professor, Department of Pharmacology, PGIMER

Dr. S. Venkataseshan is working as a Associate Professor in Neonatal unit of Paediatrics department of PGIMER. His research interests are primarily in severe sepsis, perinatal asphyxia and cardiovascular hemodynamic. His research work has received many awards. Recently has been awarded Asian Society of Pediatric Reasearch (ASPR) Best Research Award as a co-investigator in the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting held at Denver, Colarado, USA, May 2011. He has many publications in indexed journals to his credit. He is member of many research societies like Asian Society of Pediatric Research, National Neonatology Forum and the Indian Academy of Pediatrics and also Member of the Equipment Committee and Neonatal Database & Regional Networking Committee of the National Neonatology Forum.

Associate Professor, Neonatal Unit, Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER

Dr. Pramod Kumar Gupta working as Associate Professor in Department of Bio-Statistics, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical and Education research, India After doing his PhD from BHU in statistics had many post doc fellowships and visiting fellowships to his name. He has 14research papers published in various national and international journals.Many research projects are to his credit. Has a keen interest in evidence based health care.

Associate Professor, Department of Bio-Statistics

Mrs. Neelima Chadha, has been working at Dr. Tulsi Das Library, PGIMER, Chandigarh for the past 22 years as In charge of various sections in the institute library. She is M.A. in Psychology , M.LibSc., M Phil. in Lib. & Inf. Sc. and presently working as Incharge, Book Section. She has seven publications in journals/book and has recently been presented the “BEST PAPER PRESENTATOR AWARD” by the Chandigarh Librarians Association and Punjab Librarians Association.

Senior Library & Information Assistant.
Tulsidas Library PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr. Nishant Premnath Jaiswal, working as Senior Research Officer (Medical) in ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence Based Child Health at PGIMER. Completed his MBBS in 2006 after which he started working in department of Pediatrics Govt. Multi-Specialty Hospital, Sector 16 Chandigarh. Has a keen interest in pediatric research and evidence-based medicine and is currentlypersuing PhD from Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has scientificpublications in peer-reviewed national and international journals to his credit. He is a life member of Indian Science Congress and also a member of G-I-N (Guidelines International Network).

Dr Anil Chauhan is consultant in Evidence Based Health Informatics & Health technology assessment in Regional Resource centre at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has worked as Senior Research Officer under ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence Based Child Heath at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He pursued his Ph.D under Dr. Meenu Singh in the field of asthma and allergy in children. He did his masters degree in the field of Biochemistry from PGIMER, Chandigarh. He pursued International Fellowship course on Health Technology Assessment from School of Public health, PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has been involved in conducting systematic reviews, capacity building, literature searching from medical databases and guidelines in the field of Evidence based medicine. He is also a life member of Telemedicine society of India.

Professor Mukhopadyay is presently the Chairman of Paediatrics at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital,U.K. He discovered a novel mechanism causing eczema and asthma and the role of this gene defect on a number of aspects of the development of allergy and asthma in children. He also discovered a gene change that substantially reduces the efficacy of the commonest asthma medicine, the ‘blue inhaler’, in children. His recent randomized controlled trial testing this hypothesis through the development of asthma treatments for children that are personalised according to genotype has generated further international interest. He has collaborated with Professor Meenu Singh at the PGIMER, Chandigarh for many years and jointly published the first systematic review in the field of cystic fibrosis, exploring the field of nebulised anti-pseudomonal antibiotic therapy. Susbequently, Professor Mukhopadhyay has participated in a number of systematic reviews in the field of cystic fibrosis and asthma in children. This work has addressed issues of clinical importance within this paediatric sub-speciality.

Chair of Paediatrics
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital

She has passed Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara. She has qualified Junior Research Fellowship examination by CSIR and ICMR in 2011. Presently she is pursuing Ph.D under the supervision of Dr. Meenu Singh and working on allergic disorders in children. She is also associated with the working with the review group of the centre.

Advanced Pediatrics center
PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr. Kiran Kumar Thumburu presently working as Senior Research officer in the “ICMR Advanced centre for Evidence Based Child”, Advanced Pediatric Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh. He completed his masters in Medical Biochemistry from Manipal University and PhD from PGIMER, Chandigarh. Attended several national and international conferences and scientific publications in peer reviewed journals to his credit.

Dr. Amit Agarwal presently working as Senior Research officer in the “ICMR Advanced centre for Evidence Based Child”, Advanced Pediatric Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh has passéd his Masters in Biotechnology from University of Rajasthan. He also worked with Institute of Microbial Technology as a project assistant in molecular biology laboratory. Then after he joined PGIMER in an ICMR project as Senior Research Fellow in 2008. He has qualified ICMR fellowship and GATE. He worked as a study coordinator in IndiaCLEN Severe Pneumonia Oral Therapy study (ISPOT). He is associated with this centre from the beginning. He has done his Ph.D. in 2013 under the guidance of Dr. Meenu Singh. He attended many International and national conference. His research work has received Abstract Scholarship Award in the American Thoracic society held at Philadelphia, USA, May 2013.

Currently working as Senior Research Fellow in ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence Based Child Health. He has done his Master in Clinical Microbiology. He is currently working with the review group of the centre.

Currently working as Library cum Technical Assistant in ICMR- Advanced Centre for Evidence Based Child Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has working experience of more than 4 yrs in telemedicine centre. He Attended various workshops, seminars and conferences at National Level.

Mr. Sunil Kumar Dhatwalia has worked as a Junior Research Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Medical Microbiology, PGIMER, Chandigarh and has 6 years of experience in the field of Mycobacteriology. He qualified for the ICMR fellowship in 2008 and has been awarded with Dr. D.S. Kothari fellowship (Bridging fellow) in 2014. His scientific observations are published in peer-reviewed journals. His current interest is to use systematic approach to solve clinical problems by integrating best available research evidence.

Dr. Ajay Kumar has worked as Junior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Medical Microbiology, PGIMER, Chandigarh. His scientific observations are published in peer reviewed journals and also have presented his work in national and international conferences. His current interest is to use systematic approach to solve clinical problems by integrating best available research evidence.

Ms. Harpreet Kaur worked as Library and Information Assistant in ICMR- Advanced Centre for Evidence Based Child Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh. She holds M.A. (Pub. Admn.), MLISc., PGDLAN and UGC NET(JRF). She has working experience of more than 4 yrs in different college libraries of Chandigarh. Attended various workshops, seminars and conferences at National Level and few papers to her credit. E-mail: harpreet_cancer@yahoo.co.in

She worked as Senior Research Fellow in ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence Based Child Health.