DR.

GAURAV GUPTA
Address for correspondence
SCF 85, Phase 7, Mohali, Punjab.
Mobile: 09872303775.
Email: docgaurav@gmail.com
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ACADEMIC PROFILE
Sr.No.
Examination
Year of Passing
College & University
1
DNB (Peds)
1998
NBE, New Delhi.
2
DCH
1996
BJMC, University of Pune
3
MBBS
1994
BJMC, University of Pune
Registration no.

Maharashtra 75858
Punjab
39465
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Sr.No.
1
2
2
3
4
5

Place of Work
Charak Child Care
TravelSafe Clinic
Fortis, Mohali
Inscol Hospital
PGIMER, Chandigarh
GMCH, Chandigarh

Designation
MD, Consultant (Pediatrics)
CEO, Travel Physician
Consultant (Pediatrics)
Consultant (Pediatrics)
Senior Resident (Pediatrics)
Senior Resident (Pediatrics)

From - To
2002 to Present
2010 to present
2002 - 2009
2007 - 2009
Oct, 1999 - Oct, 2002
Aug, 1998 - Oct, 1999

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Expert Resource Person, Vaccines. Completed IAP Advanced Vaccinology
Course Dec 2012, Gurgaon.
District Resource Person, Mohali. Completed Science of Vaccinology, Regional
Workshop for Training in Vaccinology August 2008, Chandigarh.
Contributing Editor for CLIPPINGS in INDIAN PEDIATRICS since July 2000 to
present
Contributing Author for MDcurrent.in website Global Medicine, Local Focus
Contributing Author for American Academy of Pediatrics Society for
International Child Health Newsletter
Member American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP - 1052548)
Member Indian Academy of Pediatrics (L-1998/ G 630)
Member Punjab Medical Council (39465) & Maharashtra Medical Council
(75858)
Member of various Professional International Travel Health Organizations
including ISTM, ASTMH, BGTHA and IAMAT
Online
editor
for
HARRIET
LANE
Pediatric
Links
(http://derm.med.jhmi.edu/poi/Editors.cfm)
Treasurer, IAP Chandigarh 2012 to 2014

 Co-guide M. Pharm students, NIPER, since 2009.

PALS Certified (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) course (1998)
Sub-specialty coordinator in Pediatrics for Indian Medical Informatics Association
(1999-2000)
Winner of Zonal level IAP PEDIQUIZ (1993) (Undergraduate)
Executive Member IAP Chandigarh - 2006
PULSE POLIO campaign coordinator for ZONE 1, Chandigarh (2000-2001 AND
2001-2002) under Prof Lata Kumar

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PRESENTATIONS
INTERNATIONAL

Mounika G, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Direct Cost Involved in the Treatment of Most

Commonly Occurring Illness in Children at a Pediatric Outpatient Clinic In North India.
ISPOR 19th Annual International Meeting, May 2014, Montreal Canada. PRS 34
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Drug Prescribing Pattern in Private Pediatric Outpatient
Clinic. ISPOR 19th Annual International Meeting, May 2014, Montreal Canada. PIH 83
Snehlata P, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Safety & tolerability of Yellow Fever Vaccination in Indian
Travelers Early Results. 10th Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference. Ho Chi minh City,
Vietnam, May 2014. APTHC-0793
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Antibiotic Utilization in treatment of Upper Respiratory
Tract Infections in children. 8th World Congress of the World Society for Pediatric
Infectious Diseases (WSPID), Cape Town, South Africa, November, 2013. Abstract no.
0223
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in Indian children for
the season 2011-12. International Congress of Pediatrics 2013 (ICP) Melbourne,
Australia. Aug, 2013. Abstract No- A-555-0008-01608.
Ahlawat R, Gaurav G, Tiwari P,. Survey of knowledge, attitude and practice of
pediatricians regarding influenza vaccine in India. International Congress of Pediatrics
2013 (ICP), Melbourne, Australia, Aug, 2013. Abstract No- A-555-0018-01623.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Costing of drugs for treating reactive airways disease
(RAD) at a private pediatric outpatient setting in northern India. Poster accepted at
International Congress of Pediatrics 2013 (ICP), Melbourne, Australia. Aug, 2013.
Abstract No- A-555-0009-01631.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gupta G. Cost analysis of antibiotics utilization in respiratory tract
infection using prescribing indicators. 18th Annual ISPOR Meet at New Orleans, LA,
USA. May, 2013; Abstract No. 42647.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gupta G. Safety and tolerability of yellow fever vaccine in Indian
travellers. 13th Conference of International Society of Travel Medicine 2013 (CISTM-13),
Maastricht, Netherland. May, 2013. Poster No- 133.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gupta G. Upper respiratory tract infections at a paediatric outpatient
setting in North India. 6th Asian Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ACPID
2012), Colombo, Srilanka. Dec, 2012, Abstract no-67.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gupta G . Survey of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of
Paediatricians regarding influenza vaccine in India. 6th Asian Congress of Pediatric
Infectious Diseases (ACPID 2012), Colombo, Srilanka. 28 Nov-1Dec, 2012, Abstract No69.
Gaurav G, Ahlawat R, Tiwari P. Knowledge, attitude and practices of the Indian travelers
receiving Yellow fever vaccination. 9th Asia Pacific travel health conference, Singapore.
May, 2012. Abstract No- 139.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Safe use of antibiotics in respiratory tract infections at
paediatric outpatient setting in northern India. International Conference on Patient
Safety, NIPER. March, 2012. Abstract No- 7.

Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Safety & tolerability of Yellow fever vaccine in the healthy
Indian travelers. International conference on patient safety, NIPER. March, 2012.
Abstract No- 9.
G. Gupta, P. Tiwari, R. Renuka. Clinical Effectiveness of the Trivalent Influenza Vaccine
2010-2011 in healthy Indian children. 7th World Congress of the World Society for
Pediatric Infectious Disease (WSPID) Melbourne, Australia. Nov 2011. Abstract no-139,
Poster session 3.
Singh H, Gupta G, Tiwari P. Clinical Effectiveness of the Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
2009-2010 in healthy Indian children. 4th Asia-Pacific Conference of International Society
for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (ISPOR) Phuket, Thailand. Sept 2010.
Abstract no-27564
Gupta A, Gupta G, Tiwari P. Drug Utilization Review in Private Outpatient Pediatric
Setting with special reference to Antimicrobial Drugs. 14 th annual meeting of International
Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (ISPOR) Orlando USA. May
2009. Abstract no-21410
Trehan A, Marwaha RK, Gupta G. Relevance of the Symptom-Diagnosis Interval in
Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Presented at SIOP (INTERNATIONAL
Society of Pediatric Oncology) Conference (Oct 2000, Holland). Published as an
abstract in Medical Hemato-oncology Journal
NATIONAL

Gupta G, Ahlawat R, Tiwari P. Prescription auditing for use of steroids in treatment of

pediatric asthma- evidences from a cross-sectional study at a pediatric outpatient clinic.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual National Conference of the Indian Academy of
Pediatrics (PEDICON); New Delhi, India; 2015.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gupta G. Antimicrobial utilization in gastrointestinal tract disorders:
results from a private pediatric outpatient clinic. Poster presented at 4th Biennial
Conference of Gastrointestinal Infection Society Of India (GISICON 2014); Chandigarh,
India: GISICON; April 2014
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gupta G. Evaluation of upper respiratory tract and acute
gastroenteritis infections in children at a pediatric outpatient clinic in Northern India.
Poster presented at 65th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress; 20-22 December; New
Delhi, India: IPC; 2013. Poster No. L-1.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Pharmacoepidemiological profiling of acute
gastroenteritis patients at an outpatient setting. Oral presentation at 64 th Ind Pharm
Cong, Chennai. Dec 7-9, 2012. AWARDED BEST PRESENTATION on merit
Ahlawat R, Gupta G, Tiwari P. Pharmacoepidemiology of Reactive Airways Disease
among children at a paediatric outpatient setting of northern India. RESPICON (National
Conference of IAP Respiratory Chapter), PGIMER, Chandigarh. Oct, 2012.
Ahlawat R, Gupta G, Tiwari P. Pharmacoepidemiological profiling of acute gastroenteritis
patients at an outpatient setting. 64th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Chennai. Dec
2012.
Ahlawat R, Sneh lata, Gupta G, Tiwari P. Drug utilization review for childhood respiratory
tract infections at a paediatric outpatient setting in northern India. 64 th Indian
Pharmaceutical congress, Chennai. Dec 2012. Poster no. H-96.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Utilization of fixed dose combinations in respiratory tract
infection for children at an outpatient setting. Pediatric Conference of North India-2012,
New Delhi. Oct, 2012. Poster No- 4

Gupta G, Tiwari P, Sneh Lata. Diagnostic Challenge in Vitamin B12 Deficiency, Pediatric
conference of North India-2012, New Delhi. Oct, 2012. Poster No- 7
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gaurav G. Pattern of prescribing at a paediatric outpatient setting in
northern India. PHARMVISION-2020, Rajpura, March, 2012. Abstract No- 0046.
Singh H, Gupta G, Tiwari P. Safety and tolerability of trivalent inactivated influenza (TIV)
vaccine in healthy Indian children. 62nd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, 2010. Manipal,
India. (Poster No. L-6).
Gupta A, Renuka R, Gupta G, Tiwari P. Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Disorders &
Medication Prescription Pattern in Urban Paediatric Outpatient Setting. PGHANCON
Sept 2010
Influenza Vaccine Is it needed for Indian Children? 1st Influenza Foundation of India
Conference (IFICON, 2010)
Comparison Of Community Hospital Admissions With Tertiary Care Hospital. National
Pediatric Conference (PEDICON 2002)
Pediatric Emergency Services At A Tertiary Care Hospital In India- A Patient Profile.
National Pediatric Conference (PEDICON 2002)
Case Scenarios In Management Of Chronic Asthma and Case Scenarios In
Prevention And Immunotherapy Of Asthma in the 1 st NATIONAL update on evidencebased management of Respiratory diseases in children (November 2000)
Searching for Medical Information on the Internet in the second NATIONAL conference
of Medical Informatics (Feb 2000)
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PEDIATRIC RESEARCH IN OFFICE PRACTICE

Post Marketing Surveillance of routine use of Pentaxim (DTaP-IPV-Hib) vaccine
administered as Primary or Booster dose to healthy children in India. (20092010)
The PRIDE Study - Pedimune in Recurrent Respiratory Infection and DiarrhoeaThe Indian Experience. Ind J Pediatrics 2006 (73); p 585.
www.medind.nic.in/icb/t06/i7/icbt06i7p585.pdf
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PUBLICATIONS
INTERNATIONAL

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Tiwari P, Ahlawat R, Gupta G. Antibiotic use for respiratory tract infections in

children. Respirology. 2014;19:49.
Ahlawat R, Gupta G, Tiwari P. Complementary medicine causing severe sideeffects in a child - an overlooked cause of weight loss? Int J of Pharm Sci and
Res. 2014;5(8):478-9.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gupta G. Assessment of prescribing at a private pediatric
outpatient setting in northern India. Asian J Clin Pediatr Neonatol. 2014;2(1):237.
Ahlawat R, Tiwari P, Gupta G. Direct Cost Involved in the Treatment of most
Commonly Occurring Illness in Children at a Pediatric Outpatient Clinic in North
India. Value in health: Journal of International Society for Pharmacoeconomics
and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 2014; 17(3): A175.
Singh H, Rohit M, Gupta G, Bhasin P, Pahuja R. An Online Exploratory Study of
Self Medication among Pharmacy graduates in India. Int. J. Drug Dev. & Res.,
Oct-Dec 2011, 3 (4): 200-207.
Singhi S, Jain V, Gupta G. Pediatric emergency admission profile in a tertiary
care center. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics Aug 2003
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1. Tiwari P, Ahlawat R, Gupta G. Pharmacoepidemiological profiling of acute

gastroenteritis patients at a paediatric outpatient setting. Indian J Hosp Pharm.
2014;51(5):116-20.
2. Pramil T, Rajiv A and Gaurav G. Prescription practice in patients of upper respiratory
tract infection at a pediatric outpatient clinic in Punjab. Indian Journal of Pharmacy
Practice, 2014; 7(2):10-10
3. Gupta G, Tiwari P, Ahlawat R. A case of nimesulide toxicity in an Indian child. IJOPP.
2012;5(2): 57-58
4. Tiwari P, Ahlawat R, Gupta G. Pattern of prescribing at a pediatric outpatient setting
in northern India. IJOPP. 2012; 5(1): 40-44
5. Gupta G. Acute Nitrobenzene Poisoning. Indian Pediatr 2000; 37: 1147-1148 (letter)
6. Gupta G. Lure of the Internet-Technology Irresistible for Doctors (Bulletin of
Computer and Medical Education Group of the IAP) (April 2000)
7. Bi monthly CLIPPINGS (Journal abstracts) in Indian Pediatrics. Gupta G. July 2000;
Sept 2000; Nov 2000; Jan 2001; Mar 2001; May 2001; July 2001; Sep 2001; Nov
2001; Jan 2002, March 2002; May 2002; July 2002; Sept 2002; Nov 2002; Jan
2003; March 2003; May 2003; July 2003; Sept 2003; Nov 2003;
Quarterly CLIPPINGS in Indian Pediatrics Jan 2004 to Present (2012)
8. Gupta G. Scorpion sting a case report. Published in INTENSIVIST (Bulletin of
Intensive Care Group of the IAP) (Dec 2001)
9. Gupta G. Pediatric ICU Journal Abstracts. Published in INTENSIVIST (Bulletin of
Intensive Care Group of the IAP) (Dec 2001)
10. Gupta G, Singh M, Bansal A. Antenatal carbamazepine use associated with d-TGA
and ASD. Indian Pediatr 2002; 39: 101-102.
11. Gupta G. Medscape Website review. (Bulletin of Computer and Medical
education group of the IAP) (June 2002)
12. Gupta G. Computer Software for Doctors in the BOOK Computer for Doctors by
IAP CME Group. Jaypee Publications
13. Gupta G. Delayed Milestones. Physicians Digest. Integral media Pvt. Ltd. Feb-Mar
2007, Vol 15 No. 6. Pg 7-16.

SPEAKER at CONFERENCES
Faculty, PEDICON 2015. NextGen Patient Care - Remote Patient Monitoring,
How to use them in practice. 24th Jan 2015, New Delhi
Vaccine Safety Pediatricians perspective. International Conference on Patient
Safety, NIPER. March, 2012.
IPV Need of the hour. Haryana State PEDICON, Kurukshetra, Dec 2011.
Influenza surveillance in India & Indian experience with Influenza vaccination.
International Flu Update 2011, Mumbai, August 2011.
Flu vaccine Utility in Teens. Symposia at National Adolescent Conference 2010,
& HARCON (Annual Haryana State Conference, 2010), Gurgaon, Nov 2010.
Preventing Cervical Cancer IAP Karnal Meet, October 2010
12th Himachal State Pedicon, Shimla. Experts talk on Preventing Cervical cancer.
September 2010
Pneumococcal 13 valent vaccine. IAP Chandigarh quarterly meet. September
2010
Hepatitis B vaccine: Choosing the Most Effective Schedule at VacXIM : Advances
in Vaccinology, Goa July 2010
Panelist Influenza Vaccine Pediatrician Perspective, 1 st IFICON June 2010,
Taj Hotel, New Delhi
IAP Chandigarh meet on Preventive Pediatrics May 2010
IAP Ludhiana Chapter meet on Cervical Cancer Prevention (Feb 2010)
IAP Hissar Chapter meet on New Vaccines (Sept 2009)
IAP Haryana PEDICON 2009-10, Sonepat Newer Vaccines (Dec 2009)

CONFERENCES ATTENDED
World Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference, Melbourne,
Australia, Oct 2011

Asian Pneumococcal Disease Conference, Kuala Lumpur, July 2011

PGHANCON 2010 PGIMER, Chandigarh, Sept 2010

IFICON 2010 (1st Influenza Foundation of India Conference)

NATIONAL Pediatric Conferences (PEDICON 2002, 2007, 2008)

First Single Theme Workshop on Neonatal Sepsis (Feb 2002)

INTERNATIONAL CME in Pediatric Rheumatology (Dec 2001)

First NATIONAL Update on Evidence-Based Management of Respiratory

Diseases in Children (November 2000)

Second NATIONAL conference on Medical Informatics (Feb 2000)

First NATIONAL Conference on Medical Informatics (April 1999)

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

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Hair Iron Analysis In Normal And Thalassemic Children And Correlation With
Serum Ferritin To Detect Iron Overload - Dissertation
Phadke MA et al. Immunogenicity study of Haemophilus influenzae type B
conjugate vaccine in Indian infants. Indian Pediatr 1997; 34: 779-83

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ICMR Project: Prevalence of thalassemia trait in Antenatal mothers.

Modified DPT vaccine-immunogenicity and reactogenicity

PERSONAL PROFILE
11th September 1972
Married
Dr. Poonam Gupta (Ophthalmologist)
Hindi, English, Punjabi, Marathi
Medical Informatics, Online Medical Consultation, Computers,
River rafting, camping etc.
Special Interests
Travel Health, New Vaccines, Research in OPD Practice, Allergy &
Asthma
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I hereby solemnly declare that all the information provided here is as per the best of my
knowledge.
Dr. Gaurav Gupta
(last updated June 2012)