Services

JIPMER Pediatric department offers in-patient, intensive care, pediatric emergency and outpatient services for children below 15 years of age and speciality clinic services for children till 18 years of age. There are five units and a dedicated pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). The distribution of the pediatric faculties and their OPD timings are as follows.

Unit Unit chief and designation Other faculties and their designation OPD and admission days
I Dr. Niranjan Biswal Senior Professor

Dr. Nivedita Mondal Professor

Dr. Jaikumar Govindaswamy Ramamurthy Associate professor

Monday
II Dr. Gunasekaran Dhandapany Head and Professor

Dr. Venkatesh Chandrasekaran Additional Professor

Dr. Ramya Srinivasa Rangan Assistant professor

Tuesday
III Dr. Tamil Selvan Professor

Dr. Delhi Kumar Additional professor

Dr. Anitha A Assistant professor (contract)

Wednesday
IV Dr. Sriram Krishnamurthy Professor Dr. Bobbity Deepthi Associate professor Thursday
V Dr. Reena Gulati Professor Dr. Sudarsan Krishnasamy Assistant professor Fridays
PICU Dr. Narayanan Parameswaran Professor Dr Sivamurukan P Assistant professor 24 x 7 PICU services

OPD is functional on all working days from Monday to Saturday from 8.00AM to 1PM. OPD patients on Saturdays will be seen by the units by rotation. Inpatient, PICU and pediatric emergency services are offered 24x 7.Special procedures done by PICU team includes Hemodialysis, ECMO and bronchoscopy. In addition to the above services, pediatric department also extends specialty clinic services as shown below

Speciality clinic Consultants Days OPD timings

Pediatric Endocrinology

Dr. Delhi Kumar CG

Additional Professor

Dr. Sadish Kumar K

Professor

Department of endocrinology

Monday

11.00 AM – 1PM

Pediatric Nephrology

Dr. Sriram Krishnamurthy

Professor

Dr. Bobbity Deepthi

Associate professor

Dr. Sudarsan K

Assistant professor

Monday

Tuesday

 

9.30 AM – 1PM

Pediatric

Neurology/Epilepsy

Dr. Tamil Selvan

Professor

Dr. Ramya Srinivasa Rangan

Assistant professor

Dr. Anitha A

Assistant professor (contract)

Tuesday

Friday

9.30 AM -1 PM

Child Psychiatry Forum

Dr. Venkatesh C

Additional professor

Dr. Shivanand K

Professor and Head, Psychiatry

Dr. Ahil

Clinical psychologist

Tuesday

11 AM- 1PM

Child Development Clinic

Dr. Nivedita Mondal

Professor

 

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

9 AM – 3 PM

Pediatric Asthma Clinic

Dr. Venkatesh C

Additional professor

Dr. Ramya Srinivasa Rangan

Assistant professor

Wednesday

11 AM – 1PM

Genetic clinic

Dr. Reena Gulati

Professor

Dr. Sudarsan K

Assistant professor

Monday

Wednesday

10 AM -1 PM

9.30 AM – 1PM

Genetic counselling

Dr. Reena Gulati

Professor

Wednesday

2.00-4.00 PM

Immunization/Under five clinic

Dr. Gunasekaran D

Head and Professor

Dr. Sivamurukan P

Assistant professor

Wednesday

1.30 PM onwards  

Pediatric Infectious Disease clinic/Pediatric HIV clinic

Dr. Niranjan Biswal

Senior professor

Thursday

11 AM- 1PM

Pediatric Cardiology clinic

Dr. Narayanan P

Professor

Dr. Avinash A

Associate Professor

Cardiology Department

Dr. Sataroopa Mishra

Assistant professor

Cardiology Department

Thursday

11 AM- 1PM

Child Guidance Clinic

Dr. Venkatesh C

Additional professor

Thursday

11AM-1 PM

Pediatric Hematology

Dr. Jaikumar GR

Associate professor

Thursday

11 AM- 1PM

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dr. Bobbity Deepthi

Associate professor

Friday

11 AM-1 PM

 

Allied services

Services Name of the concerned person

Child psychology

Dr. Ahil

Child psychologist

Occupational therapy

Bandana Senapati

Jr. Occupational Therapist

Social services

Dr Nancy R Premkumar

Social service officer

Laboratory services

Mr. Arun

Medical lab technologist

MTS

Mr. Gnanasekaran

MTS

 

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Last Updated :07-Oct-2025