Dr. Neha received her MD in Pediatrics from Kasturba Medical College, Mangaluru, and later worked at the prestigious institute of PGIMER, Chandigarh as a Senior Resident. She successfully completed the EULAR / PRES Online Course in Paediatric Rheumatology. Her keen interest in Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology led her joining the fellowship program at Aster CMI Hospital. She has published many papers and is actively involved in research on Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA).

Publications: 

• Singh N, MN Vidya, Furtado S, Bhattad S. Refractory cutaneous vasculitis in a young child with granulomatous polyangiitis successfully treated with Rituximab: A case report. Indian Dermatol Online J. Under peer review. idoj_815_23.

• Singh N, Janardhanan J, Kale S, Kumar H, Ginigeri C, Bhattad S. Giant coronary and systemic aneurysms in an infant with missed Kawasaki disease and the role of apixaban. Prog Pediatr Cardiol. 2024; 72(6):101703.

• Janardhanan J, Singh N, Bhattad S. Osteomyelitis-Like Presentation In A Young Girl With Hyperphosphatemic Familial Tumoral Calcinosis – A Case Report. Int J Med Sci Curr Res. 2023; 6(6):342-346. 

• Bhattad S, Singh N. Pulmonary manifestations in primary immunodeficiency. Indian J Pract Pediatr. 2023; 25(2):178 – 187.

• Bhattad S, Mohite RS, Singh N, Kotecha U, Jhawar P, Ramprakash S, Commondoor R et al. Profile of 208 patients with inborn errors of immunity at a tertiary care center in South India. Clin Exp Med. 2023 Oct 28. doi: 10.1007/s10238-023-01225-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37898571.

• Singh N, Bhattad S. Lymphoproliferation: How do You Evaluate for an Immune Deficiency? Pediatr Inf Dis. 2023; 5 (3):102-104.

•  Mortimer PM, Nichols E, Thomas J, Shanbhag R, Singh N, Coomber EL,et al. A novel mutation in EROS (CYBC1) causes chronic granulomatous disease. Clin Immunol. 2023;255:109761.

• Bhattad S, Libre M, Choi JM, Mohite RS, Singh N, Markle JG. Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome with early onset inflammatory bowel disease due to loss of dysbindin expression. Eur J Med Genet. 2023;66(7):104786.

•  Bhattad S, Singh N. Inborn errors of Immunity. IAP Case Based reviews in Pediatric Allergy. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. 2023.p247-256.

• Jhawar P, Singh N, Bhattad S. Prevention is Better than Cure! Can We prevent Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases?. Pediatr Inf Dis. 2023;5(2):63–64.

• Bhattad S; Mohite R S; Singh N. Growth and Development in Children with Rheumatic Diseases: Maintaining a Balance between Drugs and Disease Activity. Indian J Rheumatol:10.4103/injr.injr_54_22, October 07, 2022. | DOI: 10.4103/injr.injr_54_22.

•  Singh N, Bhattad S. Autoimmunity and Inborn Errors of Immunity: Two Faces of the Same Coin!. Pediatr Inf Dis. 2022; 4 (4):153-155.

• Singh N, Rao SS, Mithra P, Manjrekar P, Kamath N, Baliga BS. Improving Underweight Mothers' Essential Newborn Care During Early Infancy: A Single-Blinded, Parallel-Randomized, Controlled Trial. J Pediatr. 2022;244:72-78. e2. 

•  Neha, Rao. SS, Baliga BS, Mithra P, Manjrekar P, Kamath N. Influencing variables for fetal growth in malnourished mothers: a nested case-control study.Clin Epidemiol Glob Health. 2020; 8: 581-585.

•  Neha, Ravikiran SR, Manya S, Baliga K, Bhat KG.Acute Liver Injury, Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Renal Failure in a Toddler due to Multiple Stings by Vespa affinis. J Clin of Diagn Res. 2019;13:1–3.

Paper Presentation: 

• Annual ISKD Conference, Hyderabad, 2022

• Oral presentation : Bilateral Axillary Aneurysms in an infant: Sequelae of Missed Kawasaki Disease

Poster Publication:

• Infantile versus Non-infantile Kawasaki Disease – A comparative analysis from a tertiary care centre in South India

• Kawasaki disease versus Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) – A multicentric comparative analysis from South India

• Acquired phimosis in an infant with IVIG-resistant Kawasaki Disease: A rare occurrence

• Indian Society Of Primary Immune Deficiency(ISPID) IEI Conference, Chandigarh, 2022

Poster Presentation:

• Polyautoimmunity in an Infant with No T-Cells: an Interesting Case of Cd3ε Deficiency and Review Of Literature

• Clinical profile of 14 patients with DOCK8 deficiency: A single-centre experience from Southern India

• Autoimmunity in B Cell Defects - An experience from a tertiary care center in South India

• NCPR, Bangalore, 2022

Poster Presentation:

• Profile of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with a special reference to Lupus Nephritis: A five-year single-centre experience from Southern India

• Clinical patterns and causes of uveitis – Experience from a Tertiary Care Centre in Southern India

• Bilateral axillary aneurysms with early thrombotic changes in an infant: The bad sequelae of missed Kawasaki disease!

• Juggling biologics in a child with Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Associated Periodic Syndrome – What is the way forward?

• APSID Online Meeting 2022

• Poster titled “Infant presenting with Recurrent Infections and High T cell Counts: An interesting case report of MALT1 deficiency"

• 6th International Conference on Inborn Errors of Immunity, Gurugram, 2023

• Oral presentation titled “A case series of five patients with Activated PI3 Kinase Delta Syndrome: A multicentre center experience"

Presentations:

Fifth Asia-Pacific Society for Immunodeficiency (APSID) Congress, Tokyo, Japan, March 2024

Two oral presentations titled “Polyautoimmunity In An Infant With Low T-Cells: An Interesting Case Of Cd3ε Deficiency And Review Of Literature” and “Profile Of Autoimmunity and Immune Dysregulation in 360 Patients with Inborn Errors Of Immunity At A Tertiary Care Center In South India”

 

Poster titled “Clinical and molecular profile of 20 patients with DOCK8 deficiency: A single-centre experience from Southern India”

 

Seventh National Conference of Indian Society of Primary Immunodeficiency, Lucknow, February 2024.

Two oral presentations titled  “Clinical and molecular profile of 20 patients with DOCK8 deficiency” and “Clinical spectrum and outcomes of ten patients with LATAIE and five patients with CHAI: A multi-center experience”

 

ESID Juniors Journal Club and Clinical Case presentations, October 2023.

Recurrent pyoderma gangrenosum in two siblings  – First report of its kind!

 

APSID Focussed Webinar on ‘IEI due to GOF or LOF Defects’, September, 2023

Oral presentation titled “Immune dysregulation and atypical mycobacteria –

The tussle between GOF and LOF!”

 

PRES, Netherlands, 2023

Short communication in Young Investigators Meeting (YIM) - Profile Of Autoimmunity and Immune Dysregulation in 360 Patients with Inborn Errors Of Immunity At A Tertiary Care Center In South India

 

Poster presentation in PRES

a. Early onset systemic lupus erythematosus: A case series of four patients with C1Q deficiency

b. Spectrum of Systemic Autoinflammatory diseases – Experience from a tertiary care center in South India

c. Correlation of disease activity and psychiatric burden of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-Interim analysis of a Prospective Observational Study

d. Profile Of Autoimmunity and Immune Dysregulation in 360 Patients with Inborn Errors Of Immunity At A Tertiary Care Center In South India – Selected for the poster tour

 

6th International Conference on Inborn Errors of Immunity, Gurugram, March 2023

Oral presentation titled “A case series of five patients with Activated PI3 Kinase Delta Syndrome: A multicentre center experience"

 

Poster presentation:

a. Two cases of CBM-opathies—An expanding Spectrum of Inborn Errors of Immunity

b. Recurrent pyoderma gangrenosum in three patients with Otulopenia – First of its kind report!

c. Profile of 319 Patients With Inborn Errors Of Immunity: A 5-year experience at a tertiary care centre in Southern Indiia

d. Profile Of Autoimmunity and Immune Dysregulation in 319 Patients with Inborn Errors Of Immunity At A Tertiary Care Center In South India

 

APSID Online Meeting, December, 2022

Best poster award for the poster titled "Infant presenting with Recurrent Infections and High T cell Counts: An interesting case report of MALT1 deficiency" on 14th December 2022 in APSID online meeting.

 

NCPR, Bangalore, December, 2022

Poster Presentation

a. Profile of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with a special reference to Lupus Nephritis: A five-year single-centre experience from Southern India

b. Clinical patterns and causes of uveitis – Experience from a Tertiary Care Centre in Southern India

c. Bilateral axillary aneurysms with early thrombotic changes in an infant: The bad sequelae of missed Kawasaki disease!

d. Juggling biologics in a child with Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Associated Periodic Syndrome – What is the way forward?

 

Indian Society Of Primary Immune Deficiency(ISPID) IEI Conference, Chandigarh, November, 2022

a. Best poster award won for "Polyautoimmunity in an Infant with No T-Cells: an Interesting Case of Cd3ε Deficiency and Review Of Literature" at IEI 2022, organized by ISPID on November 26-27th, 2022, at PGIMER, Chandigarh.

Other posters:

b. Clinical profile of 14 patients with DOCK8 deficiency: A single-centre experience from Southern India

c. Autoimmunity in B Cell Defects - An experience from a tertiary care center in South India

 

Annual ISKD Conference, Hyderabad, November, 2022

Oral presentation : Bilateral Axillary Aneurysms in an infant: Sequelae of Missed Kawasaki Disease

Poster Publication:

a. Infantile versus Non-infantile Kawasaki Disease – A comparative analysis from a tertiary care centre in South India

b. Kawasaki disease versus Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)  – A multicentric comparative analysis  from South India

c. Acquired phimosis in an infant with IVIG-resistant Kawasaki Disease: A rare occurrence