Dr Deepak Sharma did his MBBS from Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner, Rajasthan, followed by MD Pediatrics from Pt. B. D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak, which is among top tem medical college of India and a well renowned medical college of North India. After doing his MD, he did his DNB Neonatology super-specialty training from Fernandez Hospital, Hyderabad, India, under the counsel of Dr Srinivas Murki, who is a renowned figure in the field of Neonatology. During his 3 years training, he learned all the details of neonates and learned to manage neonates having birth weight as low as 600 gram and 25 weeks at gestation. He got expertise in all neonatal procedures including central line insertion, all modes of invasive ventilation, CPAP, functional echocardiography, head ultrasound, inhaled nitric oxide and therapeutic hypothermia. During his training he managed newborns diagnosed with different congenital malformations and got enough expertise in antenatal counselling for these neonates. He has experience of doing more than 50 therapeutic hypothermia in neonates with birth asphyxia. He has published more than 170 publications in different national and international journals and has been faculty in various conferences and CME. His aim is to find out new ways of treatment which are cost-effective, affordable and easily manageable. As Neil Armstrong said- “Research is creating new knowledge”. And thus he would like to take this knowledge to the patient’s bedside and bring about new innovations in the field of Neonatology.

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