About us

Leading center for pediatric pulmonology in South Asia. The division is providing state of art services to children with all respiratory diseases.It was first center to start DM coursein “Pediatric Pulmonology and Intensive Care” in India. It provides long-term and short-term training to fellows from India and neighbouring countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, SriLanka and Iran. The division is running Module based annual workshops. It is conducting periodical asthma training module (ATM),Respiratory Tract Infection Group Education Module (RTIGEM), Tuberculosis Module, Cystic.

Fibrosis module, reading Chest X Ray module and Cough module for residents. The division provides high-level care to critically ill children. The 8-bedded PICU is well equipped with various monitoring and therapeutic modalities. The unit provides training to MD residents, DM fellows, and nurses. The unit also provides training to MD residents and DM residents from other departments as well as fellows from other states and neighbouring countries. The unit is involved in multiple research projects including RCTs. We are also involved in organizing workshops and capacity building for various cadres.

Faculty

	Dr Rakesh Lodha, MD Professor, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics Office address: Room no 834, 8th Floor, Mother and Child Block, AIIMS, New Delhi- 110029 E-mail: rakesh_lodha@hotmail.com Telephone: 011-26593621 Areas of interest: Pediatric intensive care, sepsis, dengue, HIV
	Dr Jhuma Sankar, MD Additional Professor, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics Office address: Room no 839, 8th Floor, Mother and Child Block, AIIMS, New Delhi- 110029 E-mail: jhumaji@gmail.com Telephone: 011-29576864 Areas of interest: Sepsis and septic shock
	Dr Kana Ram Jat, MD, FCCP, MAMS Additional Professor, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics Office address:Room no 804, 8th Floor, Mother and Child Block, AIIMS, New Delhi- 110029 E-mail: drkanaram@gmail.com Telephone: 011-29576822 Areas of interest: Pediatric Pulmonology
	Dr Nitin Dhochak, MD, DM Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonology and Intensive care (ICU), Department of Pediatrics Office address: 812, Mother and Child Block, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029 E-mail: nitind.aiims@gmail.com Areas of interest: Pediatric intervention bronchoscopy, Cystic Fibrosis, Non-CF bronchiectasis, Pediatric interstitial lung disease (ILD), Tuberculosis.

Current DM (Pediatric Pulmonology and Intensive Care) students:

Other team members:

• Nurse: 1, Physiotherapist: 1
• PICU: 24 nurses; 5 Technical staff
• Non-DM SR: 2

Research staff:

• SROs/ROs: 5-6
• Nurses: 4-6
• Medical social Scientists: 2-3
• Attendant: 1
• Data entry persons: 3-4
• Lab staff: 3-4

Division is providing OPD services to all general Pediatric patients. It hasspecial clinic, Pediatric Chest Clinic (PCC), once a week dealing with respiratory diseases like asthma, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, primary ciliary dyskinesia, bronchiectasis, congenital airway and lung malformations, primary and secondary immune deficiency disorders including HIV infection. The division is also running once a week Tuberculosis clinic that provides care to drug sensitive as well as drug resistant tuberculosis in children.
First and largest centre of India providing specialized care to children with cystic fibrosis since 1994. Till now more than 700 children with CF are enrolled in our services.

PICU provides care to the critically ill children with diseases involving various organ systems apart from severe infections. The common conditions include severe respiratory infections, ARDS, shock, septic shock, various organ failures and multiple organ dysfunction.

The division is running DM course in Pediatric Pulmonology and Intensive care and first batch successfully completed course in Dec 2018. The specialized services provided are:

1) Pulmonary Function Test: Newborn to adults including spirometry, impulse oscillometry, infant pulmonary function test, plethysmography, and diffusion lung capacity (DLCO).
2) Bronchoscopy and EBUS/ EUS: for all age groups.
3) Sweat test by indigenously developed method.
4) Allergy Tests: skin tests and total IgE, Specific IgE, Specific IgG for selected antigens
5) Exercise test
6) High Speed Video Microscopy, NasalNO, FENO,
7) 24 hours esophageal pH monitoring.
8) Intervention bronchology services in development as of now being provided in consultation with Department of Pulmonology, Sleep disorders and Critical care AIIMS

The broad research areas of the division are depicted below:

● The division had >30 extramural research projects (generated >12 crores funding) completed or ongoing on acute respiratory infections, asthma, cystic fibrosis, air pollution, respiratory health, sepsis, septic shock, ARDS, Scoring systems, diaphragmatic functions in critically ill, COVID-19 and MISC, antimicrobial resistance etc.
● A cohort of newborn is being followed up for >6 years for ARI and respiratory health.
● A cohort of asthma is being followed up for >7 years. We have completed 2 multicentre RCTs in pediatric critical care and have ongoing projects funded by DST and ICMR
● ICMR Center for Advance Research in Pediatric Pulmonology (CF, PCD, ILD, infection in immunodeficiency disorders, Strengthening of services in country).

IGIB, THSTI. We have collaboration with THSTI for ongoing projects on septic shock and with IIIT Delhi. We have been actively collaborating with PALISI group, USA in multicenter studies in global health.

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