Dr. Singhania is a Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician (Specialist Paediatrician) who is running her own children’s clinic in Dubai since last 14 years. The clinic deals with children suffering from behaviour problems, educational difficulties like autism, ADHD and ADD and all other types of children with special needs. Assessment and management of these problems are offered at the clinic. She is also currently attached as a consultant to City Hospital DHCC, Dubai.

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 PhD. in Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics from the University of London. She has completed her M. Ed. in Special Education – Autism from the Birmingham University. She got a doctoral degree in psychology from Calamus University UK and a diploma in counselling and psychotherapy from the same university.

She has done several workshops and training programmes on Development in Visually handicapped children, in Educational Medicine, in various areas of autism like PECS, Verbal Behaviour and is a certified DAN! Protocol Doctor for Biomedical  Intervention for Autism.

She has contributed enormously to the world of special needs. She was one of the first neurodevelopmental paediatricians in the Middle East. She was one of the first physicians in Dubai who promoted understanding of ADHD and autism in Dubai. She has seen over 5000 patients and has elevated the evaluation of special children to international levels. She has seen patients from all levels of society and worked with families from over 50 nationalities and cultures.

In India she started a school for special needs children. She did rural development programmes to improve language development in poor rural children.

She has headed both a pediatric and a General Hospital in India

She is a voluntary member of the International Social Services Geneva and helps children of families with problems across the border.

She has conducted several workshops and training programs 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.

Dr. Rajeshree Udani Singhania’s Resume

Dr. Singhania is currently running her own clinic, Singhania Children’s Clinic, out of Dubai Healthcare City in the United Arab Emirates. It been operational since February 1996, dealing with everything from routine paediatric care and health to development monitoring and developmental, behavioural, educational problems in children.

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Psychology from The Calamus International University, 2007
• MEd. in Special Education – Autism from The University of Birmingham, U.K, 2004
• Ph. D. in Neuro-Developmental Paediatrics from The University of London, U.K, 1995
• MD Pediatrics – Postgraduate from The University of Bombay, India, 1980
• D.C.H. ( Diploma in Child Health) from The College of Physicians and Surgeons, India, 1978
• M.B.B.S. (with an Internship) from The University of Bombay, India, 1977

HONOURS AND AWARDS

•  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.
• Research Director of the Lady Anusuya Singhania Medical Research Center recognized by the Science and Technology Department of Government of India, 1987.
• Managing Director of the PGR General Hospital and Research Center, 1992 till September 1994.
• Director LSS Pediatric Hospital & Research Center, J.K. Nagar, Kota, November 1984  to  1992.
• Lecturer, G.S. Medical College & K.E. M. Hospital, Bombay, January 1982  to June 1982.
• Registrar Wadia Children’s Hospital, Bombay, May 1979  to Dec. 1980.

 FURTHER EXPERIENCE & TRAINING ABROAD & INDIA 

USA

• Certification as a DAN! Doctor from the Autism Research Institute-ARI- October 2009.
• Observer in the following centers in the United States of America for a period of six months-January 1981 to June 1981.

1. Neonatology & General Pediatrics, University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville,Virginia under Dr. Kattwinkle.
2. Rehabilitation Center, Charlottesville, Virginia.
3. Child Development, Rose Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein Medical Center & Hospital, New York.

GERMANY

• Munich Kinderzentrum Training in Neurodevelopment testing by Vojta Technique in Munich function Diagnostic Test, July 1982 to August 1982, May 1983 to June 1983 ( Four months )

UNITED KINGDOM

• Institute of Child Health London University – three months training in Growth & Development in Professor Tanner’s Department, September 1982 & June 1983 to July 1983.
• Training in Child Development at the Wolfson Centre, Institute of Child Health, London University.  Attended following workshop at Wolfson Centre Institute of Child Health, London, December 1984 to June 1988.
• Developmental Examination, 1984
• Educational Medicine, 1988
• Severe Visual Handicap, 1989
• Derbyshire Language Training Scheme, 1991

INDIA

• Post Graduate course in Educational Medicine Neonatal Resuscitation

IMPORTANT POSITIONS HELD

•  Organised State Level Rajasthan Pediatric Conference in Kota, December 1986.
• State level Neonatology conference, Kota, February 1990.
• Resuscitation Training workshops – Rajasthan, 1990 – 1994.

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 Paediatrics.

INVITED FOR LECTURES

•  AIIMS New Delhi – 25^th 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)

More to come…