King Edward Memorial Hospital - Department : Neonatology

Neonatology

Achievements

1. Selected as the Center of Excellence for Kangaroo Mother Care Project for developing countries in 2003.

2. SS Manchanda Gold Medal Award paper entitled "Antenatal Doppler Velocimetry in Fetal Growth Restriction" presented at 40th National Conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics held in Mumbai in January 2003

3. Best resident award to Dr.Suman Rao, Senior Resident by Seth G.S. Medical College & K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, 2004

4. Establishment of Human Milk Bank in 2005

5. Establishment of Ambulatory Kangaroo Mother Care Center, the first of its kind in India in 2005.

6. "Room air &100% Oxygen in Neonatal Resuscitation: A randomized controlled trial" Research Publication in an International journal, Journal of Tropical Pediatrics in August 2005

7. EMBICON Gold Medal for paper entitled "Fluconazole prophylaxis against fungal colonization and invasive infection in Very Low Birth Weight infants" presented at 8th National Conference of Pediatric Infectious Diseases chapter of IAP & EMBICON 2005 held in Mumbai in October 2005.

8. Gold Medal for Best & Original Research work in Neonatology titled "Kangaroo Mother Care for Low Birth Weight Infants- A randomized Controlled Trial" at 25th Annual Convention of National Neonatology Forum held at Indore on 1st to 4th December, 2005.

9. Trophy for 'Clean ICU' awarded to NICU for the year 2006.