Dr. Sampat Kumar Shettigar

Dr Sampat Kumar Shettigar is a Paediatrician and Neonatologist in Bengaluru with 16 years of experience, currently practising as a Consultant at Manipal Hospital, Whitefield.

He is also associated with Kinder Women's Hospital and Fertility Centre, Krishnarajapura.

He specialises in neonatal intensive care, extreme prematurity management, neonatal mechanical ventilation, and paediatric nutrition.

Areas of Expertise

Dr Shettigar focuses on comprehensive newborn and paediatric healthcare through the following clinical areas:

Neonatal Intensive Care and Prematurity

He manages critically ill preterm and low-birth-weight infants, providing advanced neonatal resuscitation, therapeutic hypothermia, and bedside functional echocardiography.

Neonatal Respiratory Support and Ventilation

Dr Shettigar specialises in non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation, including continuous positive airway pressure, bilevel positive airway pressure, and high-flow nasal cannula therapy for acute neonatal respiratory distress.

General Paediatrics and Child Development

He treats childhood infections, allergic disorders, and paediatric medical conditions, alongside providing infant growth monitoring, immunisations, and nutritional rehabilitation.

Educational Background

He completed his MBBS, followed by an MD in Paediatrics. He has also completed the following advanced international training:

• Fellowship in Neonatology from the National Neonatology Forum
• Fellowship in Neonatology from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom
• Postgraduate Programme in Paediatric Nutrition from Boston University, United States
• International Programme in Preterm Nutrition from the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants, Germany

Awards, Research, and Publications

Dr Shettigar is a lifetime member of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics and the National Neonatology Forum, and has served as an invited faculty speaker at KARNEOCON and the Paediatric Critical Care Conference.

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