Dr.
Nishant Verma
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Microbiology
Contact
Email :
drnishant2k@yahoo.co.in
Dr. Nishant Verma completed M.B,B.S. from Maulana Azad Medical College and MD Microbiology from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India. His major area of work is in Medical Parasitology and Hospital Infection Control at AIIMS, New Delhi. He is the Faculty In-charge of Anaerobic, Special Bacterial Pathogens laboratory (SBPL) and Metagenomics laboratories.
He is associated with several funded research projects as principal investigator/co-investigator and has authored many scientific publications. In addition, he is involved in academic, diagnostic and various administrative duties. Also, he is an executive council member of Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology and Assistant editor for the journal ‘Tropical Parasitology’.
Areas of research interest
- Malaria, Lymphatic and extra-lymphatic filariasis
- Leishmaniasis, Trypanosomiasis, infections due to free living amoebae
- Intestinal protozoan infections such as Giardiasis, amoebiasis
- Helminthic infections
- Microsporidia
- Microbiota, Lyme’s disease, Scrub typhus, Bartonella and Anaerobic infections
Dr.
Hitender Gautam
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Microbiology
Contact
Email :
drhitender@gmail.com
Area of Research
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Hospital Infection Control (HIC) and Hospital acquired infections (HAI)
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Meningitis
- Diarrhoea
- Biomarkers
Dr.Hitender Gautam has completed his M.B.B.S. from University College of Medical Sciences (U.C.M.S.) & G.T.B. Hospital in 2003. He has completed his M.D. in 2008 and Senior Residency in 2011 from Maulana Azad Medical College (M.A.M.C.). He joined the institute as Assistant Professor in June 2014.
Dr. Hitender Gautam looks after the routine functioning of Bacteriology & Serology Laboratories; routine functioning of HIV-Immunology Laboratory; HIC Core Committee Member, AIIMS, New Delhi; Hospital Infection Control Officer, Dr. B.R.A IRCH & Surgical Block; NABL Core Committee Member & Deputy Quality Manager for Dept. of Microbiology; Invited Co-Guide for PhD in Medicine by Research Medical Microbiology program at Texila American University; Nodal Officer for COVID-19 for Department of Microbiology
Publications: 76
Papers in Conference either as Presenting or Co-author: 100
Book Chapters: 6
Invited Lectures: 36
Gene Bank Submission: 24
Major Extramural Research Projects as Principal Investigator
- “Biomarkers for bacteremia, antimicrobial resistance and hospital acquired infections by NMR and Mass Spectrometry among febrile neutropenic patients” Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), DBT 2019-2022
- “Genomic profiling of invasive and hospital acquired Escherichia coli pathotypes from different clinical samples to identify the virulence and antimicrobial resistance markers” SERB DST. Mar 2022 to Mar 2024
- Site-specific biomarkers to differentiate infection from either colonization or aseptic inflammation in ICU. ICMR. 2023-2026
- Molecular Characterization of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli among children with acute diarrhea: Association of virulence and adherence genes. DHR.2024-2027
- IIRPIG-2023-0001405/F1. “Platform for enhanced pathogen detection for meningitis and sepsis: Rapid, portable, and field-deployable diagnostics”. ICMR. AIIMS Site PI. Approved for funding
- Detection of viable but non-culturable (VBNC) Gram-negative bacteria in sepsis and meningitis: Clinical significance in AMR stewardship. AIIMS-THSTI Collaborative Proposal. 2023-2025
Major Publications
- Jaya Biswas , Kavi Priya Appasami, Hitender Gautam, Sarita Mohapatra, Seema Sood, Benu Dhawan, Rama Chaudhry, Arti Kapil, Bimal Kumar Das. Tick-tock, beat the clock: Comparative analysis of disc diffusion testing with 6, 10 and 24 hour growth for accelerated Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing report and antimicrobial stewardship. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 2023;42(8):929-943. (Corresponding author)
- Bir, Raunak; Gautam, Hitender; Arif, Nazneen; Chakravarti, Priyanka; Verma, Jyoti; Banerjee, Sayantan; Tyagi, Sonu; Mohapatra, Sarita; Sood, Seema; Dhawan, Benu; Chaudhry, Rama; Kapil, Arti; Das, Bimal; Das,Bhabatosh. Analysis of Colistin resistance in Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales and XDR Klebsiella pneumoniae. Ther Adv Infectious Dis 2022;9: 1–15. DOI: 10.1177/20499361221080650 (Corresponding author)
- Sharma N, Gautam H, Tyagi S, Raza S, Mohapatra S, Sood S, Dhawan B, Kapil A & Das B.K. Clinical Use of Multiplex-PCR for the Diagnosis of Acute Bacterial Meningitis. J Family Med Prim Care 2022;11:593-8. (Corresponding Author)
- Raza S, Gautam H, Mohapatra S, Sood S, Dhawan B, Chaudhry R, Kapil A, Das BK. Molecular characterization of resistance-nodulation-cell division efflux pump genes in multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. J Global Infect Dis J Global Infect Dis 2021;13:177-9. DOI: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_404_20. (Corresponding Author)
- Sonu Agrawal, Hitender Gautam, Abdul Hakim Choudhary, Bimal Kumar Das, Lalit Kumar, Arti Kapil. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Cancer Patients: An experience from a tertiary care cancer centre. Ind J Med Microbiol 2019 Jul-Sep;37(3):376-380. (Corresponding Author).
- Jajoo M, Manchanda V, Chaurasia S, Sankar MJ, Gautam H, Agarwal R, Yadav CP, Aggarwal KC, Chellani H, Ramji S, Deb M, Gaind R, Kumar S, Arya S, Sreenivas V, Kapil A, Mathur P, Rasaily R, Deorari AK, Paul VK; Investigators of the Delhi Neonatal Infection Study (DeNIS) collaboration, New Delhi, India. Alarming rates of antimicrobial resistance and fungal sepsis in outborn neonates in North India.PLoS One. 2018 Jun 28;13(6):e0180705.
- Hitender Gautam,Preena Bhalla, Sanjeev Saini, Beena Uppal, Ravinder Kaur, Chander Prakash Baveja, Richa Dewan.Epidemiology of Opportunistic Infections and its Correlation with CD4+ T-Lymphocyte Counts and Plasma Viral Load among AIDS Patients at tertiary care hospital in India. Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care2009; 8(6): 333-337. (Corresponding Author)
Dr.
Gagandeep Singh
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Microbiology
Contact
Email :
drgagandeep@gmail.com
Area of Research
- Cutaneous and Subcutaneous mycoses
- Histoplasmosis & other endemic mycoses
- Therapeutic drug monitoring of antifungals
Dr.
S. A. Shamim
Others
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Nuclear Medicine
Contact
Email :
sashamim2002@gmail.com
Dr.
Nishikant A. Damle
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Nuclear Medicine
Contact
Email :
nkantdamle@gmail.com
Dr.
Aashish Choudhary
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Microbiology
Aashish, an alumnus of AIIMS Delhi, completed his MD in Microbiology from the institute in the year 2007. He is currently in-charge of the virology laboratory of the department.
His areas of interest include congenital viral infections (HCMV), viral hepatitis (HBV, HCV, HEV, HAV, etc.), infections in SOT/HSCT recipients (HCMV, EBV, etc.), viral STI’s (HPV, Human adenoviruses, HSV 1&2, etc.), viral haemorrhagic fevers (Dengue fever), cell culture, and molecular virology.
Academic Qualifications
- AAHIVM Expert- American Association of HIV Medicine, USA, 2021
- CIC- Certification Board of Infection Control & Epidemiology, USA, 2020
- FCCM- Canadian College of Microbiologists, Vancouver; Canada, 2019
- D (ABMM) - American College of Microbiology, Washington; USA, 2018
| Year | Award | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Meghna Baweja Award for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, IAMM Delhi | Detection and Genotyping of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) from Neonates with Congenital infection. |
| 2009 | Best Poster Award- IAMM Delhi | Screening for Cryptosporidium muris infection in fecal smears from patients with by modified acid-fast staining and micrometry. |
| 2009 | Best Poster Award- IAMM Delhi | Morphological variations in intestinal coccidian oocysts by modified Kinyoun acid-fast staining of archived fecal smears. |
| 2012 | Sanjay Sardana Memorial Award for Immunodiagnostic techniques, IAMM | Significance of anti-HCV signal-to-cutoff ratio (S/Co) in predicting HCV viremia in patients with suspected HCV infection. |
| 2015 | IAMM prize for Best Published Paper in Virology (Ind. J Med.Microbiol.) | Comparison of Conventional, Immunological and Molecular techniques for the diagnosis of Congenital HCMV infection. |
Publications/Abstracts in indexed journals - 61
Book Chapters - 4
Dr.
Sarita Mohapatra
Female
MBBS, MD, MAMS
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Microbiology
Contact
Email :
drsarita2005@gmail.com
Major Awards
- Meghna Krishna Baveja Memorial Award for Best poster on Pediatric infectious Diseases, at MICORCON-D, 2021
- Microbiology Society: Infection Science Award 2020 in Federation of Infection Society/Healthcare Infection Society, 2020
- BILL and MELINDA GATES Foundation Award for Young Investigators from India and Southeast Asia, International Congress on Infectious Diseases, 2016
Research Interest
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales
- Septicaemia, Urinary tract infection
- Hospital infection control
- Antimicrobial stewardship
Dr. Sarita Mohapatra’s responsibilities includes routine diagnostic bacteriology, hospital infection control officer for Cardiothoracic-Neurosciences center. She have published over sixty research papers in peer-reviewed national and international reputed journals and contributed five chapters in different books.
Dr.
R.K.Yadav
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Nephrology
Contact
Email :
rkyadavnephrology@gmail.com
Dr.
Upendra Baitha
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Medicine
Contact
Email :
drupendrabaitha@aiims.edu
Dr.
Animesh Ray
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Medicine
Contact
Email :
doctoranimeshray@gmail.com
