Education
MD, All India Insitute of Medical Sciences, 1999
Overview
I am a Pediatrician and a Pediatric Infectious Diseases specialist at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. My research interests include pathogenesis of TB disease, especially related to children - including central nervous system TB. I am also interested in developing novel, and optimizing current diagnostics for the diagnosis of TB in young children. This includes development of imaging technologies for evaluation of TB disease in animal models and human beings.
Honors and Awards
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award 2009
Named amongst the Maryland’s Innovator of the Year, The Daily Record 2008
Named amongst the Best and the Brightest 2007, Esquire Magazine Dec 2007
Clinician Scientist Award, Johns Hopkins University 2005-07
Program Choice Award at the IDSA 2005
Bill and Melinda Gates' Foundation Education scholarship. Tuberculosis: Integrating Host and Pathogen Biology 2005
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Award at the IDSA 2005
IDSA Special citation for fellow-in-training 2005
Fellows Travel Award at the IDSA 2005
American Pediatric Society & Society for Pediatric Research. Young Investigator’s Travel Award 2005
Baurenschmidt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2003-04