Professional Activities

Honors and Awards

• Recipient of Pediatric Academic Society Travel Award for. “Variation in hypoxemia episodes between day and night and its effect on oxygen saturation targeting in preterm infants.”  To be presented at PAS Vancouver in May 2014
• Outstanding Peer Leadership Award, PL-3 June 2011 Maimonides Infants & Children’s Hospital
• Robert J Gilner Award for Best Academic Performance June 2009 Maimonides Infants & Children’s Hospital

 Current Research Projects

Volume guarantee ventilation in preterm infants with frequent episodes of hypoxemia: A Randomized cross over study evaluating role of volume guarantee in preventing hypoxemic episodes in routine clinical conditions

• Longitudinal study of cerebral oxygenation, perfusion and function following intracranial haemorrhage in preterm infants: Observational case-matched controlled study comparing cerebral oxygenation, cardiac output, SVC flow and aEEG over time in infants with and without ICH.
• Synchronized Nasal Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation in preterm infants: Physiological study comparing effect of synchronization on oxygenation and ventilation in preterm infants.
• First extubation failure and prolonged ventilator dependency. Analysis of associated factors and respiratory outcomes: A retrospective data analysis effect of first extubation failure and prolonged ventilator dependency on respiratory outcomes and factors associated with it.
• Use of Caffeine to reduce length of mechanical ventilation in preterm infants: A prospective double blind randomized controlled trial of effect of caffeine on duration of ventilation prior to first successful extubation.