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Dr. Singhania’s curriculum Vitae
  
     
DR. RAJESHREE UDANI SINGHANIA
Neuro-Developmental Paediatrician
 

Dr. Singhania is a Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician (Specialist Paediatrician) who is running her own children’s clinic in Dubai since last ten years. The clinic deals with children suffering from behaviour problems, educational difficulties like autism, ADHD and ADD. Assessment and management of these problems are offered at the clinic.

A recipient of her university’s gold medal for top honours in her graduating class of 1980, Dr. Singhania has worked with both rural and urban children in various locations in India. She has also studied in Munich, Germany; Charlottesville, Virginia and in New York City.

Her work with the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London resulted in her Ph. D. in Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics from the University of London. She has done her M.Ed. in Autism from the Birmingham University.

She has headed both a pediatric and a General Hospital in India and is also currently attached as a consultant to the American Hospital – Dubai and the Welcare Hospital, Dubai.

She has conducted several workshops in Dubai on ADHD/ADD and Autism both for parents and professionals. She has presented papers on ADHD and Autism in national and international conferences in the UK, India and the UAE.

  
 

       
EDUCATION
2000 – 2004
 M.Ed. In Autism University of Birmingham, U.K.
1989 – 1995
 Ph. D. in Neuro-Developmental Paediatrics University of London, U.K.
1979 – 1980
 MD Pediatrics – Postgraduate University of Bombay, India
1972 – 1977
 D.C.H. ( Diploma in Child Health) College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bombay
M.B.B.S. ( with Internship ) University of Bombay, India
HONOURS AND AWARDS
1980 Gold Medal and a Certificate of Merit for standing first in the all India D.C.H. Examination held by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in April 1980.
Gold Medal for standing first in MD Pediatrics Examination of the University of Bombay, December 1980
1987 Research Director of the Lady Anusuya Singhania Medical Research Center recognized by the Science and Technology Department of Government of India.
1992 to Sept. 1994 Managing Director of the PGR General Hospital and Research Center
Nov. 1984 to 1992 Director LSS Pediatric Hospital & Research Center, J.K. Nagar, Kota.
January 1982 to June 1982 Lecturer, G.S. Medical College & K.E. M. Hospital, Bombay
May 1979 to Dec. 1980 Registrar Wadia Children’s Hospital,
Bombay
FURTHER EXPERIENCE & TRAINING ABROAD & INDIA
USA
January 1981 to June
1981
  • Observer in the following centers in the United States of America for a period of six Months.
  • Neonatology & General Pediatrics, University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia under Dr. Kattwinkle.
  • Rehabilitation Center, Charlottesville, Virginia.
  • Child Development, Rose Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein Medical Center & Hospital, New York.
GERMANY
July 1982 to August 1982 Munich Kinderzentrum Training in Neurodevelopment testing by Vojta Technique in Munich function Diagnostic Test.
May 1983 to June 1983
( Four months )
UNITED KINGDOM
September 1982 & June 1983 to
July 1983		 Institute of Child Health London University – three months training in Growth & Development in Professor Tanner’s Department
December 1984 to June 1988 Training in Child Development at the Wolfson Center, Institute of Child Health, London University.
Attended following workshop at Wolfson Center Institute of Child Health, London
1984 Developmental Examination
1988 Educational Medicine
1989 Severe Visual Handicap
1991 Derbyshire Language Training Scheme
INDIA Post Graduate course in Educational Medicine Neonatal Resuscitation
IMPORTANT POSITIONS HELD
December 1986 Organised State Level Rajasthan Pediatric Conference in Kota.
February 1990 State level Neonatology conference, Kota
1990 – 1994 Resuscitation Training workshops – Rajasthan
SOME PAPERS PUBLISHED
  • Literature Pollution – Indian Pediatrics, September 1985 : 22
  • Health Education through Fun & Fair – Indian Pediatrics, 1986
  • Educate to Breast Feeding – Indian Pediatrics, May 1986
  • Electrolyte Content of Water in Kota City – Indian Pediatrics, June 1986
  • Vojta Diagnostic System for the Neurological & Development Disturbances in the First Year of Life – World Pediatrics and Child Care, 1987
  • Should we continue with Syrups and Suspension * Indian Pediatrics, Jan., Feb. 1987
  • Giant Hairy Pigmented Nevus – Indian Journal of Pediatrics, March – April 1987
  • Association of Income, Occupation, Parental Education with Growth and Scholastic Achievement in School Children in Bombay – Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, April 1987
  • Superstitious Practices – reasons for acceptance and means to uproot them. Indian Pediatrics, September 1987
  • Games with Health Messages – World Health Forum, March 1988
  • Practices of Doctors in Management of Diarrhea – S.D.M.H. Journal, April – June 1988
  • Corporate Study of Intestinal Parasitism in Children Attending L.S.S. Hospital S.D.M.G. Journal, September 1988
  • Health Promotion : Education of school children in self care – Indian Pediatrics, December 1988
  • Importance of onset of Adult Pattern Diet as complete of Weaning Processes S.D.M.H., December 1988
  • Fortified High calorie Breast Milk for Optimal Growth of LBW Babies – Journal of Tropical Pediatrics.
  • Gastroesophageal Reflex in Infancy – Indian Pediatrics, February 1989
  • Prevention of Articulation Disorders – S.D.M.H., March 1990
  • Infant Feeding Practices in Educated Mothers of Upper Socioeconomic Classes, Indian Pediatrics, April 1990
  • Acute Cholecystitis in a young infant, Indian Pediatrics, September 1990
  • Acute Hydrops of gall bladder – Indian Pediatrics, February 1991
  • Prune Belly syndrome in female, Indian Pediatrics.
INVITED FOR LECTURES
  • AIIMS New Delhi – 25th Anniversary of AIIMS – Talks on Early Diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy – 1984
  • Spastic Society of India, Delhi, for training of Special Educationists – 1984 to 1992
  • Update in Pediatrics by Rajasthan State Branch of Tuberculosis – 1989
  • Indian Medical Association, Kota to talk on TB and Diarrhea – 1987 & 1990
  • Continuing Medical Education C.M.E. National Pediatrics Conference on Vojta Neuro Development Assessment – 1986
  • International Rehabilitation Conference – AIIMS, New Delhi, on Early Detection of Cerebral Palsy – 1991
LIFETIME MEMBER
  • Indian Pediatric Association
  • National Neonatology Forum
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Indian Association of Pre-school Education
MEMBER
  • Society for Rational Therapy Baroda (India)
  • Emirates Medical Association (United Arab Emirates)
  • The Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry (United Kingdom)
  • Asian and Oceanian Child Neurology Association (Japan)
FREE TIME HOBBIES
  • Swimming
  • Spending time with my kids
  • Reading up on medical journals
REFERENCES
Dr. Vrajesh Udani, MD,

Consultany in Child Neurology & Epilepsy

P.D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research
Centre &

B.J. Wadia Hospital for children

V.S. Marg, Mahim

Mumbai – 16

India
Dr. Patricia M. Sonksen

Institute of Child Health

The Wolfson Center

Mecklenburgh Square
London WC IN 2 AP

UNITED KINGDOM
Dr. I.C. Verma FRCP FAMS FAAP

Senior consultant & Head Dept. of Genetic Medicine

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Rajender Nagar
New Delhi – 110 060

India
Dr. Rita Jordon and Dr. Gladys
Jones

Tutors

Autism (Children) Distance Learning Unit

School of Education
University of Birmingham

Edgbaston

Birmingham, B15 2TT

United Kingdom

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