Academics

25+ years on the national faculty circuit, and counting

Teaching has run alongside clinical practice since the early 1990s — from a 15-year honorary professorship in physiology to national faculty positions held for more than two decades.

Current Teaching Roles

Professor Emeritus, Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur
Adjunct Professor of Practice (Mechanical Engineering), VNIT Nagpur
Adjunct Professor (Paediatrics & Respiratory Physiology), DMIHER Nagpur
Hon. Director, Centre of Excellence (AI in Medicine & Applied Computing), DMIMS Nagpur

Past Teaching Roles

Honorary Professor of Physiology, Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur — 15 years
Honorary Professor, Sawangi Medical College — 15 years
Voluntary Educator, Jabalpur Medical College — 20 years
Examiner & Guide, Pediatric Intensive Care Fellowship, CPS & DCH

National Faculty

Faculty for the Pediatric Critical Care National Conference for 20 years, the IAP National Conference for 25+ years, state conferences for 25+ years, and 5 National Neonatology Forum events.

International Faculty

Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Rochester University & Golisano Children's Hospital, Denver Children's Hospital, Michigan Children's Hospital (Detroit), Children's Hospital of King's Daughters' (EVSM), KK Hospital (Singapore), Royal College London, plus conferences in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Organising Chairman

Founded the first National PICC Conference (1999), the first Asia-Pacific Pediatric Intensive Care Conference (Pune, 2000), NEOVENT, Sepsis 2010, and three editions of "Books to Bedside" with Physicians for Peace (2015–17).

Publications

Oxygen Therapy in Pediatrics — Indian Journal of Paediatrics, Vol. 67, pp. 885–891 (2000)
Maintenance Fluid Therapy — Indian Journal of Practical Pediatrics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2004)
Acute Bronchiolitis: A Review — Indian Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2001)
Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Children — Postgraduate Medical Journal (2010)
Neonatal Lupus Erythematosus, 3 presentations — Indian Journal of Paediatric Dermatology (2014)
Algoman: Gearing Up for the Net Generation and the Era of AI — SpringerLink, Indian Journal of Pediatrics (2019)
Contributory author, Assisted Ventilation of the Neonate (Goldsmith & Karotkin) and Pediatric and Neonatal Ventilation (Dr Pravin Khilnani)
Contributory author, EPIC & BPIC Courses, IAP Intensive Care Chapter India
Executive Editor, Journal of Pediatric Critical Care

Workshops Designed & Conceptualised

Oxygen Therapy

100+ workshops delivered across India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Ventilatory Simulation

First workshop on indigenously developed mechanical-ventilation simulators, at the PICC National Conference, Mahabaleshwar.

Applied Microbiology

10+ workshops nationwide, with consultant microbiologist Dr Thakar.

Also: TEDxAmbazariLake — "Creating Affordable Medical Devices: Health Tech Revolution."

Summer Internship Programme (SIP)

Undergraduate students, real biomedical problems

Run with the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) for undergraduate medical and AYUSH students, pairing them with engineering mentors on affordable-device projects.

SIP 2025 — DIY Syringe-Based Nebulizer

A low-cost nebulizer alternative for resource-limited settings, built from scratch by the student team with Dr Deopujari and Dr Rashmi Uddanwadikar.

SIP 2024 — Neonatal Resuscitation, Low-Resource Settings

Mouth-to-mouth breathing via a T-piece resuscitator with a water manometer, as a cost-effective resuscitation method.

SIP 2023 — CFD Study of NIV Interfaces

The first cohort's applied-physiology study of gas laws and computational fluid dynamics in non-invasive ventilation interfaces.