Dr. Vinod Gunasekaran

Brief Profile

• MBBS – Madras Medical College 2008
• MD (Pediatrics) – Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh 2012
• FNB (Pediatric Hematology-Oncology) – Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi 2016
• Clinical Fellow (Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation) National University Hospital, Singapore 2018

Scholastic Performance

• Research Paper
  • Serum procalcitonin in predicting significant infections and mortality in pediatric oncology. Indian Pediatr. 2016 Dec 15; 53(12):1075-1078.
• Guidelines
  • Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Consensus Statement of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Indian Pediatr. 2018; 55:489-94.
  • Consensus Statement of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics in Diagnosis and Management of Hemophilia. Indian Pediatr. 2018; 55:582-90.
• Editor of Book
  • IAP NPH Pediatric Clinics ‘Pneumococcal Diseases in Children’
• Chapters Published
  • In the textbook of “Fetal & Neonatal Hematology, Oncology and Immunology” 1st edition, 2017
    • Physiology of Hematopoiesis (Chapter 1)
    • Infections in the Neonatal Period: Primary Immunodeficiency Perspective (Chapter 47)
    • Management of Specific Immunodeficiency (Chapter 56)
  • In the textbook of “Algorithms in Pediatrics” 1st edition, 2017
    • Approach to persistent fever with hepatosplenomegaly in a child (Chapter 62)
  • In IAP NPH Pediatric Clinics ‘Pneumococcal Diseases in Children’
    • Host Defense Mechanisms and Risk Factors in Pneumococcal Diseases
    • Miscellaneous Infections Caused by Pneumococcus
  • In Pedicon Workshop Manuals – 2015
    • Childhood leukemia’s – in “Pediatric Hematology-Oncology”
    • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in primary immunodeficiency disorders – in “Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders”
    • Introduction to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation – in “Manual for Nurses”
    • Contributed to “Pedicon Manual on Antimicrobial Policy”
• Faculty and Speaker in State, National & International Conferences
  • Speaker in 10th SIOP Asia Congress, Moscow, Russia (May 25-28, 2016) and presented a research paper – ‘Serum interleukin-10 levels in childhood immune thrombocytopenia and its role in predicting the clinical course – a prospective case-control study’
  • Faculty in Pedicon 2017 (54th National Conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics), Bengaluru and contributed as
    • One of the speakers on the session ‘Case Presentation on HLH’
    • Moderator of the session ‘Newer CBC parameters’
    • Conducted a one-day TOT session on Pediatric Hematology in St. Martha’s Hospital, Bengaluru
    • Oral paper presentations on
      • Bevacizumab with combination chemotherapy in children with refractory and/or relapsed solid tumors
      • Respiratory viruses as a cause of febrile respiratory illnesses in children receiving chemotherapy
  • Faculty in Mamalla Pedicon 2016 (41st Annual Conference of IAP – Tamil Nadu State Chapter) and delivered a lecture on the topic ‘Laboratory Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders’
  • Faculty in Bangalore Pedicon 2017 (4th Annual Conference of IAP – BPS) and delivered a lecture on topic ‘Megaloblastic anemia’
  • Faculty in 8th SIOP-PODC Nutrition Workshop, 2017 held in PGIMER, Chandigarh and delivered a talk on ‘Nutrition in children with CNS tumours’
  • Second prize for Oral oncology paper presentation in PHOCON 2012 (national conference), Ludhiana on the topic ” Anthracyclines induced cardiotoxicity among survivors of childhood cancer”
• Poster Presentations made in National & International Conferences
  • St Jude VIVA Forum in Paediatric Oncology (2018), Singapore
    • Transplant preparative regimens in Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: one size does not fit all
  • St Jude VIVA Forum in Paediatric Oncology (2016), Singapore (awarded with Full Travelling Fellowship)
    • The spectrum of microbiological infections and resistance pattern in paediatric oncology patients: Experience from a tertiary care center in North India
    • Role of serum procalcitonin in predicting significant infections and mortality in pediatric oncology
  • 47th SIOP Congress 2015, Cape Town, South Africa.
    • Predictive value of serum procalcitonin in fever in pediatric oncology patients: experience from India. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2015; 62(s4):s379.
    • Spectrum of microbiological infections in pediatric oncology patients: experience from a tertiary care center in north India. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2015; 62(S4): S379.
    • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia preceded by steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome – Case report and review of the literature. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2015; 62(S4): S248-9.
  • The 3rd International Conference on Primary Immune-deficiency Diseases 2015
    • Epstein-Barr virus-associated hem phagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: Experience from a tertiary care center in India
  • PHOCON 2014
    • Clinical profile and response to treatment in children with chronic immune thrombocytopenia
  • PHOCON 2015
    • Serum procalcitonin in predicting significant infections in pediatric oncology patients – Analysis of 8 years? experience
• Winner of Quiz Competitions
  • ‘NATIONAL LEVEL QUIZ WINNER’ for the quiz competition for fellows in Pediatric Oncology held during PHOCON 2015 (national conference)
  • ‘NATIONAL IAP POST-GRADUATE QUIZ WINNER’ in the 6th IAP Pediatric quiz for postgraduates, 2012 organized by the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP)
  • FIRST prize in the Quiz competition conducted during 26th Annual Conference of Delhi Society of Hematology on 19th December 2015.
  • FIRST place in State level quiz competition in 1st ISHTM National Hematology Quiz for postgraduates (2011)
  • SECOND place in State level and Zonal level in 2nd ISHBT National Hematology Quiz for postgraduates (2012)
• Other Selected Academic Achievements
  • Received the prestigious ‘Ravi K Jerath award – 2015’ for the best resident of the year at Sir Ganga Ram hospital.
  • Attended ‘Workshop for Faculty Development in Research Methodology’ organized by National Board of Examinations on 7th – 9th April 2016.
  • State first rank holder (aggregate marks – 300/300) in the Tamil Nadu state medical entrance examination (for MBBS) for the year 2003.