TEAM IJP

Editor-in-chief

S.K. Kabra

Editor for America

S.K. Varma

Subscription Head

Vivek Sharma

Asst. Publication Editor

Anita

Editor Emeritus

I.C. Verma

Founder Editor

Amala Chaudhuri Marketing Head
Rajiv Dhir

Publication Editor

Kiran Kanwal

Section Editors

Sandeep Agarwala, Anurag Bajpai, Sameer Bakhshi, Deepak Bansal, Vishnu Bhat, Deepak Chawla, Rohit Manoj Kumar, Rakesh Lodha, Joseph L. Mathew, Narendra Rathi, Pratibha Singhi, Anshu Srivastava

Editorial Executive Board

N.K. Arora, Arvind Bagga, V. Bhatnagar, Jagdish Chandra, V.P. Choudhry, A.K. Dutta, Arun Kr. Gupta, Suresh Gupta, Madhulika Kabra, Umesh Kapil, R.M. Pandey, V.K. Paul, Ratna D. Puri, Y.K. Sarin, Anita Saxena, Anupam Sibal, Utpal Kant Singh, C. Wattal

International Editorial Advisory Board

1. V. Bhutani, Stanford, USA 2. Andrew Bush, UK 3. Anthony Graeme Catto-Smith, Australia 4. Niranjan T. Kissoon, Columbia, Canada 5. P.S.N. Menon, Kuwait 6. R.K. Menon, Michigan, USA 7. Asha Moudgil, USA 8. Satoshi Nakagawa, Japan 9. P.S. Rao, Houston, USA 10. Frank Athol Shann, Australia 11. John MacGregor Steele, Canada 12. Dharmapuri Vidyasagar, ILL, USA

National Editorial Advisory Board

1. Shally Awasthi, Lucknow 2. Karunakara BP, Bengaluru 3. Farzana K. Beig, Aligarh 4. Sudha Rao Chandrashekhar, Mumbai 5. Harish Chellani, New Delhi 6. Jaydeep Choudhury, Kolkata 7. Sanjay Deshmukh, Nagpur 8. Nirmala Dheivamani, Chennai 9. Ashok Gupta, Jaipur 10. Vineeta Gupta, Varanasi 11. Tushar Bharat Jagzape, Raipur 12. Kush D. Jhunjhunwala, Nagpur 13. S.S. Kamath, Kochi 14. Virendra Kumar, New Delhi 15. Samarendra Mahapatro, Bhubaneswar 16. Rashid Merchant, Mumbai 17. Bakul Jayant Parekh, Mumbai 18. Shubha Phadke, Lucknow 19. Anil Raut, Nagpur 20. S.S. Rawat, Indore 21. Kuldeep Singh, Jodhpur 22. Surjit Singh, Chandigarh 23. Sunit Singhi, Gurugram 24. S. Sitaraman, Jaipur 25. GVS Subrahmanyam, Hyderabad 26. Kuldeep Sukhadeve, Wardha 27. Jayant V. Upadhye, Nagpur

Aims and Scope

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, an International monthly pediatric journal, was established in 1933 by late Dr. K.C. Chaudhuri. It is the oldest specialty journal in South-East Asia keeping track with the current trends in the world of pediatrics. The journal aims to publish and propagate the latest research and medical achievements in pediatrics and child health, including genetics.

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