Dr. Sampat Kumar Shettigar

Dr Sampat Kumar Shettigar is a Paediatrician and Neonatologist in Bangalore with 16 years of experience, currently practising as a Consultant at Manipal Hospital, Whitefield, and Kinder Women's Hospital and Fertility Centre.

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

Dr Sampat Kr Shettigar previously served as a Registrar at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, United Kingdom, and as an Associate Professor at Srinivas Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalore.

Areas of Expertise

Dr Sampat Kumar Shettigar's practice includes:

• Neonatal Intensive Care and Prematurity: Manages critically ill preterm and low-birth-weight infants, providing advanced neonatal resuscitation, therapeutic hypothermia, and bedside functional echocardiography in tertiary-level NICU settings.
• Neonatal Respiratory Support and Ventilation: 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: Treats childhood infections, allergic disorders, and paediatric medical conditions, alongside providing infant growth monitoring, immunisations, and nutritional rehabilitation.
• Neonatal Nutrition and Critical Illness: Manages neonatal sepsis, severe hyperbilirubinaemia, complex congenital anomalies, and provides specialised neonatal nutrition and breastfeeding support for critically ill newborns.

Educational Background

Dr Sampat Shettigar completed his a Fellowship in Neonatology (FNNF) from the National Neonatology Forum and a Fellowship in Neonatology from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), United Kingdom, at Imperial College London.

He also completed a Postgraduate Programme in Paediatric Nutrition from Boston University, United States, and an International Programme in Preterm Nutrition from the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), Germany.

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