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Jhuma Sankar, MD

All India Institute of Medical Scinces, Delhi, IND

Dr Jhuma Sankar completed her post-graduation training in Pediatrics as well as fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care from PGIMER, Chandigarh. She is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi.
Her areas of research interest include sepsis and septic shock, myocarditis and mortality risk scoring systems in sick children. She is presently involved in 3 multicenter projects 1) ICMR project for 3 years on ‘Procalcitonin guided antibiotic therapy to decrease duration of antimicrobial use ’ in children with sepsis for a sanctioned budget of 87 lakhs 2) DST funded project on ‘signs of circulatory impairment in children’ for a budget of 33 lakhs and 3) AIIMS intramural grant for project entitled predictors of sever disease in children with COVID-19 apart from 5 other non-funded ongoing studies on sepsis and septic shock. She has over 75 publications in reputed national and international journals.
Her research work has been recognized by the Society of Critical Care Medicine USA, 50th Annual Congress and she received the SCCM STAR research achievement award for her multicentre trial on balanced crystalloids for septic shock. She also received the World Federation of Pediatric intensive and critical care societies prestigious ‘ Senior Investigator Award’ in pediatric critical award at the World Congress in 2018 and the AIIMS Excellence in Research award 2019 for her work on septic shock. She also received the prestigious ICMR ‘H.B. Dingley Memorial award’ for her work for the year 2015.
As a key faculty of 'AIIMS Intensive care DM curriculum', ‘Pediatric Advanced Life Support courses’, and National faculty in Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency conferences, she is involved in training of DM fellows, residents, practicing pediatricians, and junior faculty members of medical colleges and hospitals across the country.

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