CURRICULUM VITAE
Raj Kumar Bishnoi MBBS, MD
1001, Main street west, unit 707
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S1A9
E mail- drrajkumarbishnoi@yahoo.co.in
Phone – 001-905-719-6929
Educational Background
November 2016 - Oct 2018 Clinical fellowship Neonatology
McMaster children’s hospital &
McMaster University affiliated hospitals
Level 3 NICU, Level 2 NICU
Hamilton, ONTARIO, CANADA
McMaster children’s hospital is an academic tertiary care hospital affiliated with McMaster University. University is ranked #2 in Canada for research. The 47-bed tertiary level NICU is the referral centre for a catchment area of 2.2 million with 27,000 births. During my Fellowship, I have been responsible for the NICU care of
babies with gestational age from 23 weeks. I gained broad exposure to Clinical Neonatology through serial rotations in our NICU 3, Level II Nursery, Labour and Delivery suite, high-risk Maternal-Fetal Medicine Clinics, Prenatal Diagnosis Clinic, Growth and Development Neonatal follow up clinics as well as opportunities to get actively involved in neonatal transport runs by dedicated McMaster regional neonatal transport team throughout their training period. We have access to Echo and Ultrasound machines in the unit to learn and optimize Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography (TnEcho) skills and point of care cranial and abdominal ultrasounds during their training period. I improved my skills in patient care and medical knowledge.
September 2002 - Sept 2005 M. D. Pediatric Residency
Sardar Patel Medical College,
Bikaner, India
University of Rajasthan, India
October 1995 - Dec 2001 M.B.B.S.
(Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery)
Dr. S. N. Medical College,
Jodhpur, India
University of Rajasthan, India
Certification and qualification exams
December 2000 M.B.B.S.
Dr. S. N. Medical College, Jodhpur
University of Rajasthan, India
November 2005 M. D. (Pediatrics),
S. P. Medical College, Bikaner
Board certified in Pediatrics,
University of Rajasthan, India
November 2016- November 2018 Neonatology fellowship
McMaster University Affiliated Hospitals
November 2012 USMLE Step 1
July 2013 USMLE Step 2
June 2014 USMLE Step 2 CS
March 2015 USMLE Step 3
August 2014 ECFMG certified
Medical Licensure
November 2016- present CPSO (The College of Physician and
Surgeons of Ontario, CANADA)
June 2008- Oct 2016 Kuwait Medical Association
January 2002- present Rajasthan Medical council member
Indian Medical council member
Professional Memberships
August 2006- present Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Work Experience
May 2006 – June 2008 Pediatric specialist
Suncity Hospital and Research Center,
Jodhpur, India
June 2008 – September 2009 Registrar Pediatrics and Neonatology
Ibn Sina Hospital,
Ministry of Health Hospital, Kuwait
September 2009 – October 2016 Registrar Neonatology L3N, L2N
Ghanima Al-Ghanim centre for
Premature infant and Genetics disease
Maternity Hospital,
Ministry of Health Hospital, Kuwait
I worked in two Ministry of Health hospitals, initially in Ibn Sina Hospital as a Registrar, Pediatrics. Ibn Sina is a Pediatric Surgery hospital in which, with my pediatrics team, I managed the pre- and post-operative Pediatric surgery patients. It was a new kind of experience in my life, to handle surgical cases of all varieties. I dealt with a wide range of pediatric surgical cases like necrotizing enterocolitis, congenital anomalies and other pediatric surgical cases. Later on I was offered the opportunity to work in the Neonatology department at Maternity Hospital, one of the best premature care centers in the Middle East. Maternity Hospital, affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, is a center for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and assessment. I treated premature babies as of 24 weeks.
My responsibilities included NICU, OPD, special care units, resuscitation in the labour room and vaccination.
Teaching Experience
September 2002 – Sept 2005 Resident pediatrics
During MD Pediatrics Residency I
taught Pediatric cases to Medical students.
Pediatrics Hospital,
Sardar Patel Medical College,
Bikaner, India
January 2006 – March 2006 Senior Resident Pediatrics
During Senior Residency I taught
Pediatrics cases to residents and students
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital,
New Delhi, India
March 2006 –May 2006 Senior Resident Pediatrics
During Senior Residency I taught
Pediatrics cases to residents and students.
Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital,
Lady Harding Medical College
New Delhi, India
September 2009 – Oct 2016
Registrar Neonatology L2N, L3N
During this time I was taught Pediatric
residents and medical students during
NICU rotation.
Ghanima Al-Ghanim centre for Premature
infant and Genetics disease
Maternity Hospital,
Ministry of Health Hospital, Kuwait
Research and Publications
During M.D. Pediatrics residency Thesis paper on “Health and nutritional status of primary school girls in government schools of Bikaner city”. Sept. 2005
Oral Presentation, at annual neonatal conference 2005 “G6PD deficiency in newborn and its presentation as severe neonatal jaundice at Pediatric hospital, Bikaner, west Rajasthan”.
Poster presentation
Diejomaoh, Michael. F.E., Bello, Zainab., Al- Qenae, Mona,. Al Qassim, Abeer., Bishnoi, Raj Kumar.,Mohammad, Assiya. T,.. (May, 2017).
Trends in induction of labour at Maternity Hospital, Kuwait Poster presented
at: ACOG 2017 Annual clinical and scientific meeting, San Diego, CA, May 6-9; SAN DIEGO, CA, USA.
PROFICIENCIES
1) Experience of working in neonatology since September 2009 (around nine years) and able to manage extremely premature infant up to 23 weeks gestational age and onwards. Including patient management in NICU, parental counselling and follow up care of extremely premature kids.
2) PICC lines, Peripheral arterial and venous lines, Umbilical Lines(UAC, UVCs).
3) Collecting and interpreting blood gases.
4) Endotracheal intubation(Nasal/oral) and surfactant administration, LISA
5) Managing critical patients in NICU, emergency, outpatient, inpatient, follow-ups of NICU graduates.
6) All kind of ventilation, Non-invasive and invasive, HFO, Conventional, CPAP etc.
7) Chest tube insertion and all NICU procedures.
8) Lumbar puncture
9) Intraosseous line
10) Pleural tap and ascetic tap.
11) Exchange blood transfusions
Language Fluency
English (Advanced)
Arabic (Good) was in KUWAIT for eight years.
Hindi and Urdu (Native/functionally native)
Gujarati (Good)/Punjabi (Fair)
Raj Kumar Bishnoi, MBBS, MD Pediatrics
Clinical fellow neonatology, McMaster University. ON, Canada