About Me:

Dr Professor Ashok Kumar Deorari, is presently serving as Principal, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Jolly Grant after 48 years of illustrious career at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He did his MBBS, MD Paediatrics from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and headed department of Paediatrics AIIMS, New Delhi (2017-22) and WHO Collaborating Centre of Training and Research in Newborn, New Delhi for two decades. He was Chairman of UG curriculum & Skill Lab at AIIMS, New Delhi and is currently Institute Body Member, AIIMS, Kalyani, West Bengal. He is well known for his contributions to facility-based neonatology in India and SE Asia. He was instrumental in conceptualizing uniform structured teaching aids for pre-service and in-service and steered development of webinars/AV lectures/teaching aids for Newborn Health. As lead person of WHO CC at AIIMS, he steered development of an online e-learning platform on Newborn Health for professionals on Moodle learning management system (LMS). In a first for Asia, he created innovative Apps on smartphones for management of ‘sick newborn.’ Quality methodology tool envisaged under his leadership has been adopted for implementation in Middle income Countries, and available free as certificate e-course www.pocqi.org. He served as technical expert in WHO HQ Geneva, UNICEF HQ New York for creation of global guidelines/ policy documents for maternal & newborn health. He is in technical advisory group member in Ministry of Health, Govt of India for Newborn health, and Global Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) under WHO and UNICEF. He has served in various capacities in India and abroad e.g., Consultant with WHO/UNDP /UNICEF in establishing facility based newborn care in DPR Korea, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal & Timor Leste, Technical expert with WHO HQs for ENAP metrics, UNICEF HQs and WHO Quality of Care Global Network, etc. He has also helped Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Iran and Mauritius in operationalization of CPAP & Neonatal Ventilation services. His excellence in research is acclaimed in India and abroad as evident by the International grants and > 300 research publications with h index 64; i1O 138 & > 10,000 citations. He is author of six books and has received multiple awards & orations. He is currently developing Standard Treatment Workflow for Newborn packages for Ayushmann Bharat.