Alok Sharma MBBS, MD, MRCPCH, CCT

Dr. Alok Sharma is a Consultant Neonatologist working at the Corniche Hospital Abu Dhabi. He has worked as a consultant in neonatology and paediatrics for 22 years having trained in India, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.

Alok started his postgraduate training in paediatrics in India completing an MD on ‘Meconium Aspiration’. He has trained in neonatal and paediatric intensive care at Aberdeen, London, Exeter, Southampton Portsmouth, and Leicester in the UK.

He is a certified simulation healthcare provider trained by the Society of Simulation Healthcare and was neonatal simulation lead in Southampton UK from 2012-2017. He has developed and runs the simulation instructor course and difficult neonatal airway course globally. He has developed several courses in crisis resource management and human factors training.

He is also a director for the MPROvE academy a not-for-profit educational initiative in neonatology which has helped deliver education in the UAE, France, Austria, Germany, Vietnam, India, Kenya, and Nepal. He has founded the ‘Neonatal Ethics and Difficult Situations Course’ which is run nationally in multiple centres in the UK along with Dr D Wilkinson, Dr. Sijo Francis, and Dr. S Babarao and is chair and lead organiser for the European Neonatal Ethics Conference.

His research interest is in CRM and Human Factors and he has also developed the OPEN concept in simulated learning and worked on its implementation in ethics education. He has run numerous workshops on the ethical aspects of the implementation of therapeutic hypothermia in India in partnership with the National Neonatology Forum India. Work on multidisciplinary neonatal simulation done by his team, and its impact on neonatal outcomes was nominated for the National BMJ Award securing the Runner’s Up position in 2014 and was awarded the Best Research Award at ASPIH 2014. He has presented at over 100 national and international conferences and has over 50 peer-reviewed abstracts and publications.