About Us

Leading center for pediatric tuberculosis in South Asia. It was one of the first specialty services in India. The division is providing services to children with drug sensitive as well as drug resistant tuberculosis.The division is actively contributing to development of National tuberculosis Elimination program (NTEP). Division generated data: to facilitate inclusion of children in national program, improve airway sampling using bronchoscopy, EBUS/EUS, role of newer molecular diagnostic tests including biomarkers etc.

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 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.

Division is providing OPD services to all general Pediatric patients. It hasspecial clinic, Tuberculosis (TB) clinic, once a weekprovides comprehensive care to children with drug-sensitive as well as drug-resistant Tuberculosis in children.

The division provides clinical care, training of students (MD pediatrics, DM Pulmonology and Intensive Care, DM Infectious Diseases).

1. Specialized services: division provides following specialized services.
2. Airway sampling for microbiology investigations.
3. Bronchoscopy and Bronchoalveolar lavage, brush biopsy, transbronchial biopsy.
4. EBUS/EUS.
5. Image guided samples (in collaboration with Radiodiagnosis).

The broad research areas of the division are depicted below:

● The division had >10 extramural research projects (generated >5 crores funding) completed or ongoing on Pediatric Tuberculosis.
● Role of CBNAAT in intrathoracic pediatric Tuberculosis
● Role of Lipoarabinomanan (LAM) as diagnostic point of care test in Pediatric TB
● Role of micronutrient supplementation in children with intrathoracic Tuberculosis
● Validation Xpert ultra on stool samples in the diagnosis of intrathoracic TB

University of Bergan, THSTI, Kalawati Saran Children Hospital

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