Varinder Singh MD, FRCPCH

Dr. Varinder Singh, Director, Professor of Pediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Assoc Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi, India. He trained at the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi. He had the opportunity to work with the Pediatric Chest Disease unit at their leading Lok Nayak Hospital for 6 years before he joined as a Pediatric Consultant at the National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases in Delhi. This position helped him to sharpen his skills in respirology and TB. He led the pediatric services in this hospital for 5 years during which time he also coordinated the massive training effort of the Country’s TB program. He then moved on to the current Institute to follow his passion for clinical teaching and research in 1998. He is the recipient of the Commonwealth Academic staff fellowship in 2003 under Prof Andrew Bush at Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. He currently runs the respiratory and bronchoscopy services at a major children’s hospital in Delhi. He has been instrumental in developing regional and National guidelines on Asthma, TB, and Respiratory Infections. He is currently championing the cause of Rational Antimicrobial use.