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Dr. Anju Singh

Experience: 13+ years

Education: MBBS, DCH, MD

Department: Rheumatology

Specialization:  Paediatric Rheumatology

Hospital: Artemis Hospital

INTRODUCTION:

Pediatric rheumatologist by training, that is Dr. Anju Singh.She works at Artemis Hospital in Gurugram, Haryana, as a pediatric rheumatology consultant.She has been treating kids with different rheumatological conditions for the complete 13 years.She completed her DCH (2010) and MBBS (2007) at Safdarjung Hospital.later graduated in 2013 with an MD in pediatrics from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi.She also has three more years of experience as a senior resident at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, where she worked in pediatrics and pediatric rheumatology from 2013 to 2016.Afterwards, spent two years training as a pediatric rheumatology fellow at Sir Gangaram Hospital.She completed the musculoskeletal ultrasonography course offered by EULAR (European League Against Rheumatism). She has three years of expertise in nail fold capillaroscopy, injection of intraarticular steroids, and ultrasound-guided joint treatments such as suction of synovial fluid.By PRSI (Pediatric Rheumatology Society of India) and EULAR, she is certified as a pediatric rheumatologist.She is skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of all pediatric autoimmune diseases, such as idiopathic, juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), and uveitis connected to JIA.Diseases of the connective tissues, include overlap syndrome, juvenile systemic sclerosis, scleroderma, juvenile dermatomyositis, and systemic lupus erythematosus.

Primary vasculitis such as Kawasaki disease, Polyarteritis nodosa, Takayasu aortoarteritis, Henoch schonlein purpura, Wegener’s granulomatosis, etc

Autoinflammatory syndromes such as familial Mediterranean syndrome, cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome, HyperIgD syndrome, etc

Membership

  • Life member of IAP (Indian Academy of Pediatrics)
  • EULAR (European League Against Rheumatism) AND PRSI (Pediatric Rheumatology Society of India)

Certification

  • Delhi Medical council: DMC/R/4350

Honours and Awards:

  • Worked as co-investigator in various studies at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital:
  • The percentage of pediatric patients readmitted to tertiary care hospitals within 60 days following their discharge.
  • Clinical and laboratory predictors of extended hospital stays in children infected with swine flu.Sankar J, Dewan V, Nandan D, and Singh A.A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial was conducted to compare the therapeutic effects of budesonide and beclomethasone dipropionate in the treatment of children with mild persistent asthma.August 2016; Indian Journal of Medical Research, 144(2), 250.Yadav TP, Gupta A, Anju S, Mittal HG.A retrospective study from North India examined the clinicolaboratory predictors of hospitalization (more than seven days) in children infected with swine flu.Indian Journal of Child Health, Sep. 25, 2019, 6(9):490–498.authored a chapter for the book Rheumatology Clinics-Spondyloarthritides titled “Spondyloarthritis-The Pediatric Perspective”.
  • Authored another chapter on “Approach to Chronic Rheumatological Disorders in Children” for Elsevier, Clinical Key, India point of care.
  • In January 2021 was a panelist in the Delhi-IAP e-Rheumatpedia conference on “Approach to joint pains.”

Procedures:

  • Can do various intra-articular procedures such as intra-articular steroid injections on an OPD basis and OT for small kids under ultrasound guidance.
  • Musculoskeletal ultrasound of kids.