Dr. Manju Kedarnath

OP Timing:

Qualifications & Education:

• MBBS
• MD (Paediatrics)
• FPCEC (JIPMER)
• FPCCM
• Clinical Fellow in PICU & CICU (King’s College Hospital & Great Ormond Street Hospital, London)
• Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto)

Areas of Expertise:

• Paediatric Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine
• Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care
• ECMO & CRRT in Paediatric Critical Care
• Retrieval & Transport Medicine for critically ill children
• Advanced Ventilation & Neurocritical Care
• Paediatric Sepsis, ARDS, and Multi-Organ Failure Management

Clinical Interests:

• Establishment of PICU & Paediatric Emergency Units in underserved regions
• Training & empowerment of nursing staff in paediatric critical care
• Simulation-based medical education (active role in PediSTARS)
• Global health initiatives and NGO-based paediatric critical care
• Outreach programmes for paediatric critical care in India

Professional Experience:

• Senior Consultant – Paediatric Intensive Care, Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Sarjapur, Bangalore
• Consultant – Paediatric Intensive Care, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun
• Locum Consultant – PICU, St. Mary’s Hospital, London
• Clinical Associate – Paediatrics/PICU, Ramakrishna Mission Sevashram Hospital, Haridwar
• Honorary Clinical Associate – Paediatrics/PICU, People Tree Hospital, Bangalore
• Paediatric Intensivist – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Lebanon/Syria Border Region
• Lead Paediatric Intensivist – People Tree Hospital, Bangalore
• Junior Consultant – Paediatric Critical & Emergency Care, People Tree Hospital, Bangalore
• Junior Registrar – Emergency Medicine, Fortis Hospital, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore

Research & Presentations:

• Research on feeding intolerance in bronchiolitis patients on HFNC, predictors of ICU admission, and prognostic value of liver dysfunction in dengue fever
• Quality improvement projects on CRRT in children <10kg, neurological prognosis after cardiac arrest, and extubation readiness in PICU
• Multiple poster and oral presentations at national and international conferences including WFPICCS, PICC, and pCRRT London
• Publications in international journals including European Journal of Pediatrics

Conferences & Workshops:

• Faculty for multiple PCCN & Paediatric Mechanical Ventilation workshops across India
• Organizing Secretary – Critical Care Ultrasound & Paediatric Ventilation Workshops (Dehradun)
• Faculty at PEDICON, PEDICRITICON, PACNephrocon, and SIMULUS workshops
• Completed ECMO & Cardiac Morphology training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
• Active faculty and Joint Secretary – PediSTARS (Paediatric Simulation Society)

Languages Known:

English, Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati