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Senior Consultant Development PaediatricianDr. Praveen Suman Mehta

Dr. Praveen is an eminent development pediatrician, has received training in developmental-behavioral pediatrics and focuses specifically on child development disorders and disabilities She has conducted numerous workshops on ‘Poor school performance’, ‘follow up of high risk babies’ and ‘Autism’. Dr. Praveen has expertise in the medical and neurodevelopment assessment of the patients with developmental problems and plans the therapies required for the management of the patients. Dr. Praveen sits in the advisory board of many social and medical organizations and is the Director of Child Development Clinic which is a multidisciplinary clinic involved in the management of children with special needs like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, cerebral palsy, slow learners, Down’s syndrome etc She is also the president of sarthi support society (NGO) and on the expert panel of synapse parenting magazine.

Dr. Praveen is trained in developmental pediatrics at Robert Warner Rehabilitation Centre, at Buffalo Children Hospital, Affiliated to Buffalo University, New York. Dr. Praveen is presently serving as consultant developmental pediatrician and in charge of developmental clinic in Centre for Child Health at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. She has been working as consultant pediatrician at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for the last 15 years Dr. Praveen has several research papers to her credit.

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Academic qualification

MBBS

Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi (1987 -1992)

MD (pediatrics)

Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi (1993-1996)

Trained in developmental pediatrics

Robert Warner Rehabilitation Centre, at Buffalo Children Hospital, Affiliated to Buffalo University , New York

Certified for various developmental testing

BSID,ADI-R.ADOs etc.

Fellowship IAP

awarded with fellowship in Development and behavioral pediatrics by national IAP

Present Responsibilities

Head of the child development clinic in institute for child health at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Working as Senior consultant developmental paediatrician since August ,1999
Member of technical advisory group of a study conducted by INCLEN ‘Prevalence of childhood disability in India”.
Core member of the INCLEN study group who made- INCLEN tools for Autism and ADHD
Founder member and president of an NGO for special need children- sarthi support society
Founder and director of Child Development Clinic –Started in 2000
International associate editor of European Academic Research.

Research Activities

Passed out MD in 1996 since then working exclusively for the betterment of children with special needs, founded child development clinic in 1999 where personels from varied speciality like psychologist,special educator ,occupational therapist and speech therapist were trained to manage children with disability, so that these children can get complete help under one roof. started an NGO sarthi support group along with the parents of special need children so that underprivileged children can get the services in 2003.
A school was started for special need children . as there was not much literature in the field of developmental disorders in India is available,started working in the field of research along with INCLEN Group.That time she realized Indian standardized tools to be used for assessing children with special needs specially autism , adhd were not available, in collaboration with INCLEN GROUP of doctors made inclen ASD and Inclen ADHD tools , which are now the gold standard for the Indian population. National Indian academy of pediatrics awarded her with fellowship in development and behavior pediatrics.

Training modules for the training of professionals and parents were made and conducted successfully. First and only Centre to start a fellowship program for pediatrician in the field of development and behavior pediatrics in North India.so that more trained doctors are available to treat children who not developing typically.
With the aim to reach out to as many as possible patients in periphery and rural area, started collaborating with other pediatricians and trained professionals so that development services like occupational therapy, behavior modification and speech therapy for children with cerebral palsy, slow learner and autism is available at their doorstep.

In last 20 years of spending time with these little angels, she has treated appox 6000 autism, 4ooo cerebral palsy and intellectually disabled children and helped them to achieve their potential.

To reduce the burden of disability in society ,it is important to prevent /early identification to be done. To fulfill this aim early intervention and stimulation of all the premature and high risk babies was started under the high risk baby program .where mothers are taught the activites and therapies ,it has significantly reduced the burden of cerebral palsy and other disabilities.
To provide emotional and psychological support to the parents of children with special need were created for the first time. Where parents can interact with other parent of the same disorder can share their journey and experiences .This had a significant impact on the well being of the parents and family as a whole.

Important Publications

Paper accepted for oral presentation on quality of life of very low birth weight babies at 8 -10 year of life at annual conference of American academy of pediatrics in 2003 at New Orleans, USA. Abstract published in American Journal of Paediatrics.
Neurodevelopmental disorders in children aged 2–9 years: Population-based burden estimates across five regions in India S Aneja, M Juneja, SK Reddy, P Suman – PLoS, 2018 – journals.plos.org
INCLEN diagnostic tool for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (INDT-ADHD): development and validation. Indian Pediatr. 2014 Jun;51(6):457-62. Mukherjee S, Aneja S, Russell PS, Gulati S, Deshmukh V, Sagar R, Silberberg D, Bhutani VK, Pinto JM, Durkin M, Pandey RM, Nair MK, Arora NK; INCLEN Study Group. Thakkar A, Singh A, Mishra D, Singh GB, Mehta M, Das MK, Juneja M, Babu N, Tudu P, Suman P, Konanki R, Saxena R, Sapra S, Reddy SK, Dada T, Niswade AK, Mohapatra A, Maria A, Prasad A, Das BC, Vyas B, Murthy GV, Devi GM, Nair H, Gupta JC, Handa KK, Sumaraj L, Kulkarni M, Masoodi M, Natrajan P, Kumar R, Dass R, Devi R, Bavdekar S, Mohanty S, Suresh S, Sharma S, Thyagu SS, Karande S, Sharma TD, Aggarwal V, Chaudhuri Z.
INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Autism Spectrum Disorder (INDT-ASD): development and validation. Indian Pediatr. 2014 May;51(5):359-65. Juneja M, Mishra D, Russell PS, Gulati S, Deshmukh V, Tudu P, Sagar R, Silberberg D, Bhutani VK, Pinto JM, Durkin M, Pandey RM, Nair MK, Arora NK; INCLEN Study Group. Thakkar A, Singh A, Singh GB, Mehta M, Das M, Babu N, Suman P, Konanki R, Saxena R, Aneja S, Sapra S, Mukherjee S, Reddy SK, Dada T, Niswade AK, Mohapatra A, Maria A, Prasad A, Das BC, Vyas B, Murthy GV, Devi GM, Nair H, Gupta JC, Handa KK, Sumaraj L, Kulkarni M, Masoodi M, Natrajan P, Kumar R, Dass R, Devi R, Bavdekar S, Mohanty S, Suresh S, Sharma S, Thyagu SS, Karande S, Sharma TD, Aggarwal V, Chaudhuri Z.
INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Neuromotor Impairments (INDT-NMI) for primary care physician: development and validation. Indian Pediatr. 2014 Aug;51(8):613-9. Gulati S, Aneja S, Juneja M, Mukherjee S, Deshmukh V, Silberberg D, Bhutani VK, Pinto JM, Durkin M, Tudu P, Pandey RM, Nair MK, Arora NK; INCLEN Study Group. Thakkar A, Singh A, Mishra D, Singh GB, Mehta M, Das MK, Babu N, Russell PS, Suman P, Sagar R, Konanki R, Saxena R, Sapra S, Reddy SK, Dada T, Niswade AK, Mohapatra A, Maria A, Prasad A, Das BC, Vyas B, Murthy GV, Devi GM, Nair H, Gupta JC, Handa KK, Sumaraj L, Kulkarni M, Masoodi M, Natrajan P, Kumar R, Dass R, Devi R, Bavdekar S, Mohanty S, Suresh S, Sharma S, Thyagu SS, Karande S, Sharma TD, Aggarwal V, Chaudhuri Z
INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Epilepsy (INDT-EPI) for primary care physicians: development and validation. Indian Pediatr. 2014 Jul;51(7):539-43. Konanki R, Mishra D, Gulati S, Aneja S, Deshmukh V, Silberberg D, Pinto JM,Durkin M, Pandey RM, Nair MK, Arora NK; INCLEN Study Group. Thakkar A, Singh A, Singh GB, Mehta M, Das MK, Juneja M, Babu N, Russell PS, Tudu P, Suman P, Sagar R, Saxena R, Sapra S, Mukherjee S, Reddy SK, Dada T, Bhutani V, Niswade AK, Mohapatra A, Maria A, Prasad A, Das BC, Vyas B, Murthy GV, Devi GM, Nair H, Gupta JC, Handa KK, Sumaraj L, Kulkarni M, Masoodi M, Natrajan P, Kumar R, Dass R, Devi R, Bavdekar S, Mohanty S, Suresh S, Sharma S, Thyagu SS, Karande S, Sharma TD, Aggarwal V, Chaudhuri Z.
Consensus Statement of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics on Diagnosis and Management of Fragile X Syndrome in India.A Sachdeva, P Jain, V Gunasekaran, SB Mahay… – Indian pediatrics, 2019 – Springer
A study of growth and neurodevelopmental outcome of VLBW infants at 1 year corrected age. Indian Pediatr. 2013;50: 573-467. Modi M, Saluja S, Kler N, Batra A, Kaur A, Garg P, Soni A, Suman P
Development supportive care in neonatal intensive care unit P Suman, N Kler, S Saluja – Journal of Neonatology, 2001 – journals.sagepub.com.
Health status and health related quality of life of extremely low birth weight babies at eight-ten years of life P Suman, N Kler, S Saluja, P Garg, A Soni, U Saxena… – 2002
Maternal stress in mothers of children with cerebral palsy I Mushtaq, P Suman, K Terhuja – European Academic Research II (1), 2014.
Acquisition of Sign Mand in a Child with Autism Using Differential Reinforcement, 2014,I Mushtaq, W Khan, P Suman
Assessing the Quality of Life of Mothers of ADHD hildren and Comparison of Quality of Life with Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome, 2015,IMushtaq, P.Suman, P Kumar fs.semanticscholar.org
Presented paper on correlation of CRIB score and neurodevelopmental outcome at one year of age at annual conference at Mumbai in 2000.
Presented paper on neuro developmental follow up of very low birth weight babies at 4 years of age at Gauwhati in 2001 at annual conference of NNF.
Paper published in year book of Sir Ganga Ram hospital in 2003 on quality of life of very low birth weight babies at 8 -10 year of life
Paper presented at Annual Conference of NNF 2004 at Chandigarh on Neuro developmental Follow up of SGA babies as compared to AGA babies.

Book chapters

Common behavioural problems. In Textbook of Pediatrics for Post Graduates. 2018. Suman P.
Long term follow up of high-risk babies. In textbook of recent advances in pediatrics. 2016. Suman P.
Chapter on growth and development. In textbook of family physicians. Suman P.
Chapter on management of Autism Spectrum Disorder. In textbook of childhood disability. 2015. Suman P.
Chapter on common behavioral disorders in textbook of Pediatrics for Post Graduates (PG). 2015 ,Suman P.
Written a chapter in text book of recent advances in pediatrics- on long term follow up of high risk babies.

Chapter on growth and development in textbook of family physicians
Chapter on management of Autism Spectrum Disorder in textbook of childhood disability.
Chapter on common behavioral disorders in textbook of pediatrics for Post graduates (PG).
Chapter in a book by IAP on developmental disorders on developmental screening in pediatric office practice in 2017.

Workshops conducted

Conducted workshop at Guwahati on follow up of high risk babies in annual conference of NNF in 2001.
Presented lecture on neuro developmental follow up of high risk babies at IAP Gurgaon meeting in 2001
Presented paper on quality of life of very low birth weight babies at 8 -10 year of life at kochi in 2002 in annual conference of NNF
Presented lecture on neuro developmental follow up of high risk babies at IAP Gurgaon meeting in 2003

Fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome-features … Gupta
(Delhi), Prachi Jain , Praveen Kumar , Praveen Suman , , Institute for Child Health, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi .
Presented lectures on Autism and learning disabilities at various conferences including Indian Academy of Pediatricians Delhi and Gurgaon.
Organized various programs for the parents and society for the high risk babies. Such as NICU Graduate day.
Conducted various workshops on”Poor school performance” at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and at different schools also.
Conducted symposium for recent trends in pediatric occupational therapies.
Speaker in various national workshops including Pedicon (IAP) held in Delhi at Maulana Azad Medical College.
PARENT’S SUPPORT GROUP that is actively involved in the support of the parents of high risk babies and babies with other neuro developmental problems.
CONDUCTED various workshops and training programs on neurodevelopmental follow up of high risk babies for pediatricians at various centers.
Member of the training group for autism for the of Delhi state government doctors for autism.
Conducted a workshop on autism at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Speaker in various international conference in pediatrics including PGI Chandigarh-2011.
President of an NGO –‘Sarthi Support Society ‘supporting special need children and their parents.
Member of technical advisory group of a study conducted by INCLEN ‘Prevalence of childhood disability in India”.
Organized a National conference in childhood disability in Delhi as joint organizing secretary in Dec 2010.
Conducted international workshop on occupational therapy in pediatrics at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Jan 2011.
Conducted annual Down’s syndrome parent support group meet on 8^th August 2011.
Lecture on poor school performance with workshop on PSPP on 20^th Nov.2012 in Maulana Azad Medical College.
Lecture on approach to developmental delay in Pedicon 2012 conducted by IAP.
Conducted annual parent support group meetings on Down’s syndrome and Cerebral Palsy, Nov 2018.
Conducted international workshop on Dyspraxia in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Nov.2012.
Conducted a workshop on autism and ADHD in Pedicon (annual conference of IAP) 2015.
Panelist in panel discussion on scholastic backwardness in Pedicon 2015.
Organized and Conducted Run for autism for children, to create awareness in New Delhi in April 2015.
Conducted an international meet on research methodology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi for the postgraduates.
Invited as a speaker in pediatric conference of North India-Taare Zameen per, with focus on ADHD in India in Dec. 2015.
Speaker in international meet for pediatrician and neonatologist –Pearls of NICU. In Feb 2016.
Speaker in annual pediatric meet for pediatrician at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital-must do developmental checklist for pediatrician.in march 2016.
Chairperson in training of trainers (TOT) various developmental disorders for north India pediatrician-April 2016.
Speaker in Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Ghaziabad-lecture on “Poor school performance” Sep 2016.
Speaker in Neocon Gurgaon –Lecture on ‘developmental assessment in asphyxiated children” oct 2016.
Chairperson for learning disability at national conference of developmental pediatrics in Delhi Sep 2017.
Conducted workshop on learning disability at national conference of developmental pediatrics in Delhi Sep 2017.
Conducted a workshop on recent trends in ADHD in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Nov 2017, Guest speaker was Dr. Philip Asher son.

Faculty at national conference on growth, development and behavioral pediatrics in Dec, 2017 .

Chairperson for a conference of back to basics and newer guidelines in pediatrics in Jan 2018

Delivered a talk on common developmental and behavioral problems at Inderprastha international school Dwarka in March 2018

Conducted autism support meet at sir ganga ram hospital in April 2018
ADHD meet in 2018 was conducted in Sir Ganga Ram hospital for the awareness of parents,
Conducted a meeting for pediatricians – Don’t just wait and see –Early identification and treatment of motor delays in children in pediatric conference of north India -2018
Lecture on autism screening in pediatric update on changing paradigm in pediatric practice in Dec.2018.
Conducted workshop on autism parent support group in April 2019 in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
Conducted workshop on developmental assessment for pediatrician in pediatric north Delhi conference in April 2019.
Chairperson for session on development of indigenous screening tool for autism at national original research convention (NORC) 2019.
Organizing chairperson for the workshop of developmental and behavior pediatrics in pediatrics conference of North India -2019 .

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