Susan Fernandes
Mumbai
Summary
Dynamic healthcare professional with extensive experience in patient stabilization and critical care management, adept at utilizing advanced life support techniques to enhance patient outcomes. Committed to delivering exceptional results through collaboration and effective communication within multidisciplinary teams. Passionate about continuous improvement and staying current with the latest advancements in critical care practices.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Intensivist in Pediatrics and Neonatology
The Children’s Hospital, Mumbai
02.2012 - Current
- Managing Medical as well as Administration of The Childrens Hospital Mumbai which is a 60 bedded Tertiary care pediatric hospital and a referral unit for patients of surrounding areas.
- ·The NICU has 15 beds, dedicated to the care of critically ill neonates, premature babies, and newborns with congenital or acquired surgical consitions
- The PICU has 10 beds, offering intensive monitoring and interventions for children with life-threatening illnesses, trauma, or post-surgical recovery needs.
- Bedside point of care diagnosis and interventions including bedside sonography and 2DEcho are available.
- The hospital has a dedicated pediatric surgical unit adept at handling a broad spectrum of neonatal and pediatric surgical conditions
- Managing the day to day adminsitrative aspects of the hospital and Staff. Ensuring SOPS and polices are followed.
- Active role in ensuring that the hospital got NABH accreditation
Clinical Associate
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital
02.2010 - 03.2011
- Worked in NICU and PICU during the tenure.
- Managed extremely low birth weight preterms and critically ill infants.
- Attended high risk deliveries as well as normal vaginal deliveries.
- Advanced management as High Frequency Ventilation (HFOV), Nitric oxide and Dialysis in neonates.
Resident Doctor
MGM Hospital
07.2006 - 10.2009
Education
Neonatal Point of Care - Ultrasonography And Neonatal Hemodynamics
NEOPOCUS
12-2022
EPGDHA - Hospital Administration
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
01.2015
IAP FELLOWSHIP - Neonatology
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital
Andheri, Mumbai01.2011
M.D. - PEDIATRICS
Mahatma Gandhi Mission hospital
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra01.2009
M.B.B.S. - Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
K.J. Somaiya Medical college and research centre
Mumbai, Maharashtra01.2005
Skills
- Critical care expertise
- Multitasking
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Analytical thinking
- Clinical judgment
- Medical teamwork
- Compassionate care
Academic Activities
Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS),
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS),
Neonatal Ventilation Workshops
DASII - Developmental Assessment Scale for Indian Infants Course
POCUS- Point of care in Neonatolgy
Certification
2006/04/2154, Maharashtra Medical Council
Areas Of Interest
- Neonatology
- Intensive care
- Administrative
Presentations and Publications
DISSERTATIONS:
- Nutritional status in adolescence with respect to BMI and dietary habits and correlation with serum lipid levels
- To analyze the maternal profile and short term morbidity in Low birth weight infants at a level III neonatal intensive care unit in Mumbai
- Setting up a Level III Neonatal Intensive care unit
PRESENTATIONS;
- Poster Presentation at the international 6th World Congress on Pediatric Critical Care, Sydney, March 2011 on vertically transmitted malaria and Dengue.
- Poster presentation at PIDC 2012, Empyema Thoracis in Children – Tailored Surgical Therapy for Late Referrals: A Single Unit Experience – Study in Suburban Mumbai
- Poster presentation at PIDC 2013, Comparison of clinical presentation and outcome of nec and non-nec focal intestinal perforation in extremely low birth weight neonates- theory of natural selection:a surgical perspective
- Poster presentation at the Arab International pediatric conference, “is it a leak? Is it a recurrent fistula? Is it a fistual blow out: radiologic pictorial depiction of a torrid post-operative case of tef (vacterl). Managed successfully”. in 2019
- Case Presenation at PEDICON 2023, Rapidly Progressive Severe Subcutaneous Emphysema in Term
Newborn - Poster presentation at ESPNIC 2024, Study of demography, aetiology, clinical profile and short-term outcomes of children admitted with seizures in a tertiary care hospital in mumbai.
- Poster presentation at ESPNIC 2024, Study of demography, aetiology, clinical profile and short-term outcomes of children admitted with bocca virus in a tertiary care hospital in mumbai.- a case series
Timeline
Intensivist in Pediatrics and Neonatology
The Children’s Hospital, Mumbai
02.2012 - Current
Clinical Associate
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital
02.2010 - 03.2011
Resident Doctor
MGM Hospital
07.2006 - 10.2009
M.D. - PEDIATRICS
Mahatma Gandhi Mission hospital
M.B.B.S. - Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
K.J. Somaiya Medical college and research centre
Neonatal Point of Care - Ultrasonography And Neonatal Hemodynamics
NEOPOCUS
EPGDHA - Hospital Administration
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
IAP FELLOWSHIP - Neonatology
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital
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