Dr.
Benu Dhawan
Female
Affiliation
Professor
Department of
Microbiology
Contact
Email :
dhawanb[at]gmail[dot]com
Dr. Benu Dhawan graduated in Medicine from Government Medical College, Patiala, in 1987. She obtained her MD (Microbiology) degree from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh in 1993. She joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in the year 1994. She is presently a Professor in the Bacteriology & Mycoplasma division of the Department of Microbiology.
International Awards and Honours
- Congress Scholarship by the German foundation for International Development (DSE), 1998.
- Nominated as “2002 Woman of the Year” by the American Biographical Institute
- Awarded the “2003 Certificate of Membership to the American Association for the Advancement of Science ’’
- Recipient of Honorable Mention to the ASM-UNESCO Train-the-Trainers Scholarship Program, 2008.
Research Focus
- Sexually Transmitted Infections with special reference to Genital Mycoplasmas and Chlamydia trachomatis
- Diagnostic Microbiology with special reference to Prosthetic Joint Infections
- Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of nosocomial pathogenswith special reference to Staphylococci and Enterococci.
Research Guidance (Chief Guide)
- Ph.D: 5
- M.D./M.S.: 6
- D.M. (Infectious Diseases): 1
- Research papers published: 168
- Cumulated citation index (CI): 3237 Cumulated Impact Factor (IF): 373.194
- Chapter in Books: 1
Selected Publications
- Rao C, *Dhawan B, Vishnubhatla S, Kapil A, Das B, Sood S. Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium Bacteremia from an Indian Tertiary Hospital. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2021 Feb; 40(2):303-314.
- Dhawan B, Rawre J, Dhawan N, Bhatia R, Gupta V, Khanna N. High Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium in men who have sex with men: A cross-sectional study. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2020 Mar-Apr; 86(2):195-196.
- Rawre J, *Dhawan B, Khanna N, Sreenivas V, Broor S, Chaudhry R. Distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis omp A genotypes in patients attending a sexually transmitted disease outpatient clinic in New Delhi, India. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2019 May 1; 149(5):662. IF: 1.503; CI:2
- Sebastian S, Malhotra R, Dhawan B, Sreenivas V, Kapil A, Chaudhry R. Sonication of antibiotic loaded cement spacers: A valuable technique for detection of infection persistence in two-stage revision for infected joint arthroplasty. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2019; 37:99-10.
- Sebastian S, Malhotra R, Sreenivas V, Kapil A, Chaudhry R, *Dhawan B. A clinico-microbiological study of prosthetic joint infections in an Indian tertiary care hospital: Role of Universal 16S rRNA gene polymerase chain reaction and sequencing in diagnosis. Indian J Orthop. 2019; 53:646-54.
