Dr. Praveen Suman Mehta
Dr. Praveen is an eminent development pediatrician , She is the Director of Child Development Clinic at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital , New Delhi which is a multidisciplinary clinic involved in the management of children with special needs like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, cerebral palsy, slow learners, Down’s syndrome etc.
Dr. Praveen has expertise in the medical and neurodevelopment assessment of the patients with developmental problems and plans the therapies required for the management of the patients.
She focuses specifically on child development disorders and disabilities She has conducted numerous workshops on ‘Poor school performance’, ‘follow up of high risk babies’ and ‘Autism’.
She is also the president of sarthi support society (NGO) and on the expert panel of synapse parenting magazine.
Dr. Praveen is trained in developmental pediatrics at Robert Warner Rehabilitation Centre, at Buffalo Children Hospital, Affiliated to Buffalo University, New York.
Dr. Praveen also conducts the IAP Fellowship programe for pst graduate pediatrics doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. There are many pediatricians and psychologists who have trained under her supervision and now practicing all over the country
Dr. Praveen has several research papers to her credit which have been acclaimed worldwide . She has guided thesis of many MD ( Pediatrics) students and also contributed immensely to the growth of developmental pediatric speciality in India .
- Head of the Child Development Clinic in Institute for Child Health at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Working as Senior consultant developmental pediatrician since August 1999
- Founder and director of Child Development Clinic –Started in 2000
- Founder member and president of an NGO for special needs children – Sarthi Support Society
- Member of American academy of pediatrics (USA)
- Member of Society of developmental and behavior pediatrics (USA).
- Core member of the INCLEN study group who made- INCLEN tools for Autism and ADHD
- Member of Technical advisory group of a study conducted by INCLEN 'Prevalence of childhood disability in India."
- MBBS - Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi (1987 -1992)
- MD (pediatrics) - Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi (1993-1996)
- Trained in developmental pediatrics - Robert Warner Rehabilitation Centre, at Buffalo Children Hospital, Affiliated with Buffalo University, New York
- Certified for various developmental testing - BSID, ADI-R. ADOs etc.
- Fellowship IAP - Awarded with a fellowship in Development and behavioral pediatrics by the national IAP
- Mukherjee S, Aneja S, Russell PS, Gulati S, Deshmukh V, Sagar R, Silberberg D, Bhutani VK, Pinto JM, Durkin M, Pandey RM, Nair MK, Arora NK; INCLEN Study Group. Thakkar A, Singh A, Mishra D, Singh GB, Mehta M,Das MK,Juneja M, Babu N,Tudu P,Suman P, Konanki R, Saxena R, Sapra S, Reddy SK, Dada T, Niswade AK,Mohapatra A,Maria A,Prasad A,Das BC,Vyas B,Murthy GV, Devi GM, Nair H, Gupta JC, Handa KK, Sumaraj L, Kulkarni M, Masoodi M, Natrajan P, Kumar R, Dass R, Devi R, Bavdekar S, Mohanty S, Suresh S, Sharma S,Thyagu SS,Karande S, Sharma TD, Aggarwal V, Chaudhuri Z. INCLEN diagnostic tool for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (INDT-ADHD): development and validation. Indian Pediatr. 2014 Jun;51(6):457-62.
- Juneja M, Mishra D, Russell PS, Gulati S, Deshmukh V, Tudu P, Sagar R, Silberberg D, Bhutani VK, Pinto JM, Durkin M, Pandey RM, Nair MK, Arora NK; INCLEN Study Group. Thakkar A, Singh A, Singh GB, Mehta M, Das M, Babu N, Suman P, Konanki R, Saxena R, Aneja S, Sapra S, Mukherjee S, Reddy SK, Dada T, Niswade AK, Mohapatra A, Maria A, Prasad A, Das BC, Vyas B, Murthy GV, Devi GM, Nair H,Gupta JC, Handa KK, Sumaraj L, Kulkarni M, Masoodi M, Natrajan P, Kumar R, Dass R, Devi R, Bavdekar S, Mohanty S, Suresh S, Sharma S, Thyagu SS, Karande S, Sharma TD, Aggarwal V, Chaudhuri Z. INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Autism Spectrum Disorder (INDT-ASD): development and validation. Indian Pediatr. 2014 May;51(5):359-65.
- Gulati S, Aneja S, Juneja M, Mukherjee S, Deshmukh V, Silberberg D, Bhutani VK, Pinto JM, Durkin M, Tudu P, Pandey RM, Nair MK, Arora NK; INCLEN Study Group. Thakkar A, Singh A, Mishra D, Singh GB, Mehta M, Das MK, Babu N, Russell PS, Suman P, Sagar R, Konanki R, Saxena R, Sapra S, Reddy SK, Dada T, Niswade AK, Mohapatra A, Maria A, Prasad A, Das BC, Vyas B, Murthy GV, Devi GM, Nair H, Gupta JC, Handa KK, Sumaraj L, Kulkarni M, Masoodi M, Natrajan P, Kumar R, Dass R, Devi R, Bavdekar S, Mohanty S, Suresh S, Sharma S, Thyagu SS, Karande S, Sharma TD, Aggarwal V, Chaudhuri Z. INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Neuromotor Impairments (INDT-NMI) for primary care physician: development and validation. Indian Pediatr. 2014 Aug;51(8):613-9.
- Konanki R, Mishra D, Gulati S, Aneja S, Deshmukh V, Silberberg D, Pinto JM,Durkin M, Pandey RM, Nair MK, Arora NK; INCLEN Study Group. Thakkar A, Singh A, Singh GB, Mehta M, Das MK, Juneja M, Babu N, Russell PS, Tudu P, Suman P, Sagar R, Saxena R, Sapra S, Mukherjee S, Reddy SK,Dada T, Bhutani V, Niswade AK, Mohapatra A, Maria A, Prasad A, Das BC, Vyas B, Murthy GV, Devi GM, Nair H, Gupta JC, Handa KK, Sumaraj L, Kulkarni M, Masoodi M, Natrajan P, Kumar R, Dass R, Devi R, Bavdekar S, Mohanty S, Suresh S, Sharma S, Thyagu SS, Karande S, Sharma TD, Aggarwal V, Chaudhuri Z. INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Epilepsy (INDT-EPI) for primary care physicians: development and validation. Indian Pediatr. 2014 Jul;51(7):539-43.
- Modi M, Saluja S, Kler N, Batra A, Kaur A, Garg P, Soni A, Suman P. A study of growth and neurodevelopmental outcome of VLBW infants at 1 year corrected age. Indian Pediatr. 2013;50: 573-467.
Book Chapters
- Suman P. Common behavioural problems. in Textbook of Pediatrics for Post Graduates. 2018.
- Suman P. Long term follow up of high-risk babies. In textbook of recent advances in pediatrics. 2016.
- Suman P. Chapter on growth and development. In textbook of family physicians.
- Suman P. Chapter on management of Autism Spectrum Disorder. In textbook of childhood disability. 2015
- Suman P. Chapter on common behavioral disorders in textbook of Pediatrics for Post Graduates (PG). 2015