Dr. Leena Ajay Dhande (Bhonsle)

 
  • Designation: Head of department and Professor
  • Qualification:  MD Paediatrics
  • Email: ldhande2000@yahoo.com 

        Areas of expertise

  • Paediatric Nutrition
  • Neurology
  • Statistics

 

Medical Council Registration
  • Maharashtra Medical Council- 75548
  • NMC teacher profile - PAE-2107873
Training in Medical Education                                                                            
  • Basic course in Medical Education Technology on 30-31 Jan 2014.
  • Revised basic course in Medical Education Technology on 27, 28, 29th September 2021.
  • Completed in Mar 2021 the Aug-Dec2020 NPTEL online Basic course on Biomedical Research as mandated by MCI/NMC with consolidated score of 88%.
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS) Certified.
  • Also involved as Trainer in the workshops for training Medical Officers and nurses in Neonatal Intensive Care in Rural Hospitals at Health and family welfare Training College, Nagpur under Public Health.
                                                                                                           
Memberships                                                                            
  • Life member IAP(Indian Association of Paeditrics)
  • Life member NNF
  • Life member IMA
  • Office bearer of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Nagpur branch in various capacities (Jt Secretary, executive member) over last 6 years. As an office bearer, I have contributed to the organization of several conferences, workshops, CME, clinical meetings etc.
  • Member of Lata Medical Research Foundation, Nagpur
Reesearch Work

Involved in research since April 2000

  1. Principal Investigator of the following research project carried out from Oct 2003 to Nov 2004: “Effect of consuming food cooked in iron utensils on iron status in children with Iron Deficiency Anemia.”  Chitnavis Memorial Medical Research Trust, Nagpur, had funded this project. This project is completed.
  2. Co-investigator in the following research project “A Pilot Study Of Microbial Patterns Of Infections And Correlation With CD4+ Cell Count In HIV Positive Vs HIV Negative Children of Age 18 months-12 years in a Tertiary Health Care Setting.” which was conducted between January 2005 and 2006.
  3. Principal site Investigator in the following research project which was a multicentric study by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik conducted between Dec 06 to Jan 08- ‘Phase IV clinical trial to study reactogenicity of booster dose of  DPT vaccine.’ It was funded by Serum Institute of India Ltd.
  4. Co-investigator in the “IndiaCLEN sponsored Severe Pneumonia Oral Therapy” which was a multicentric study. It commenced in Jan 2008 and completed in May 2011.
  5. Co-investigator in the World Bank and Alive and Thrive sponsored study- “Effectiveness of cell phone counseling for improving breast feeding indicators” which commenced in Jan 2010 and completed in June 2012

 

        Approved as Post graduate guide by Nagpur University for Paediatrics in Jan 2005. Approved as Post graduate Teacher by          MUHS, Nashik with effect from 4th August 2006.

 

 

Publications

 

 

Publications in international journal-

  1. Archana Patel, Leena Dhande, M.S. Rawat. Economic evaluation of zinc and copper use in treating acute diarrhea in children: A randomized controlled trial. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2003 1:7 doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-1-7Published Date 29 August 2003. (Impact factor- 1.16)
  2. Archana Patel, Leena Bhonsle, M.S. Rawat. Therapeutic and economic evaluation of trace minerals in acute diarrhea in children (Abstract). Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Supplement 1, 51, 225;1997. (impact factor- 5.478)
  3. Patel AB, Dhande LA, Pusdekar YV, Borkar JA, Badhoniya NB, Hibberd PL. Childhood illness in households using biomass fuels in India: secondary data analysis of nationally representative national family health surveys. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2013 Jan-Mar;19(1):35-42. Doi: 10.1179/2049396712Y.0000000013. PubMed PMID: 23582613. (impact factor-1.10)
  4. Archana B. Patel, Akash Bang, Meenu Singh, Leena Dhande, Luke Ravi Chelliah, Ashraf Malik, Sandhya Khadse and ISPOT Study Group. Patel et al. A randomized controlled trial of hospital versus home based therapy with oral amoxicillin for severe pneumonia in children aged 3 – 59 months: The IndiaCLEN Severe Pneumonia Oral Therapy (ISPOT) Study. BMC Pediatrics (2015) 15:186. DOI 10.1186/s12887-015-0510-9
  5. Ashish Lothe, Leena Dhande. Griscelli syndrome- A unique pigmentary defect. International Journal of Science and Research, vol 4, Issue 5, pp 742-4, May 2015. (impact factor 4.438)
  6. Anjali Parikh, Leena Dhande. Clinical profile of painful crisis in hospitalised children of Sickle cell anemia. Int J of Contemporary Pediatrics, vol 3, issue 3, Aug 2016.
  7. Patel A, Kuhite P, Puranik A, Khan S, Borkar J, Dhande L. Effectiveness of weekly cell phone counseling calls and daily text messages to improve breastfeeding indicators. BMC Pediatrics (2018) 18:337.
  8. Leena Dhande, Pooja Nagrale, Harihar Lambat.Observational study of Bacteremia in febrile children with Sickle cell disease (SCD) vs without SCD. International Journal of Medical Science and Current Research (IJMSCR) Available online at: www.ijmscr.com. Volume3, Issue 1,Page No: 258-266. January-February2020.
  9. Leena Dhande, Kirankumar Waghmare, Neetu Badhoniya, Avinash Turankar, Ashwita Shetty. Elevated maternal blood Lead level: a risk factor for LBW-An Observational Study. J Nepal Paediatr Soc.2020;40(2):100-6.

 

Publications in Indian journals/ books –

I am the author or co-author of the following publications:

  1. Managing Dengue fever (Annual journal of IAP Nagpur, 2004)
  1. Re-emergence of Swine flu in central India, 2014. Indian Pediatrics, vol 52, pg 77, Jan 2015. Leena Dhande, Krishna Khairnar (impact factor 1.04)
  2. Can we achieve rational drug therapy? {Hospital Today, vol VII number 10, Oct 2002}.
  3. Fixed dose combination drug therapy. {Hospital Today, vol VII number 9,               Sept 2002}.
  4. Archana B Patel, Leena A Dhande, Manwar S Rawat.Therapeutic Evaluation Of Zinc And Copper Supplementation In Acute Diarrhoea In Children: Double Blind Randomized Trial. Original Article, Indian Pediatrics 05/2005; 42(5):433-42. (1.04 Impact Factor)
  5. Motghare VM, Arif AF, Turankar AV, Leena Dhande, Linesh Khobragade. Drugs in Pediatric use. The Antiseptic, Sep 2006, pp 514-6.
  6. Rajendra Sadanand Korade, Leena Ajay Dhande, Manisha Laxman Bendhari & Archana B. Patel. Can Re-training in Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) Improve Breast Feeding Indicators? Scientific letter. Indian J Pediatr (May 2016) 83(5):475–476. DOI 10.1007/s12098-015-1896-y.
  7. CM Bokade, Milind Suryawanshi, Bhagyashree Tirpude, Leena Dhande. “Outcome of COVID-19 positive neonates born to mothers with SARS-COV2 infection: case series” Indian Journal of Neonatal Medicine and Research. 2020-21 Jul, vol 9 (3), pg 1-6
  8. Sawale JC, Dhande LA, Nagrale PB. Mid Upper Arm Circumference as the best surrogate marker for identification of Low Birth Weight in newborns within the first 24 hours of life- A cross sectional study. Indian Journal of Neonatal Medicine and research, Apr 2023, vol-11 (2): pg 006-012.
  9. Leena Dhande, Prerana Ganaboor, Rasika Hattewar, Chetan Jaiswal. Risk factors for hearing loss in high risk neonates at a tertiary care centre in central India: a prospective observational study. IJNMR 2023 Jul, vol-11(3):PO09-PO12.

 
Books and Chapters
  • Manual on neonatal intensive care in Rural Hospitals published by Directorate of Public Health, Govt. of Maharashtra of which the project incharge is DrMrs VS Dani, Dean, GMCH Nagpur.
  • Immunization of children in special situations. {In Immunization in clinical practice. Eds Naveen Thacker and Nitin Shah. Jaypee publications, 1sted 2005}
Presentations
  • International platform-
    • Presented the paper on Breast feeding counseling study at M-health Conference 2011 at Washington on 5th Dec 2011.
    • Efficacy of 7 Day Course of Ambulatory Oral Amoxicillin for Treating Severe Pneumonia in 3-59 Months Old Indian Children-Multicentric Randomised Control Trial (ISPOT Group). Pediatric Research (2011) 70, 15–15; doi:10.1038/pr.2011.240. A Patel1,2, L Dhande1, A Bang3, A Malik4, LR Chelliah5, M Singh6 and S Khadse7ISPOT (IndiaCLEN Severe Pneumonia Oral Therapy)(impact factor-2.67){oral presentation at ESPR (European Society of pediatric Research) in Oct 2011 but abstract published in Ped Res}
  • National forum-
    • Presented oral paper on original research work in Workshop on Nutrition Research for Capacity Building of young scientists especially of North East region organized by ICMR at Shillong in Feb 05, topic of paper was “Effect of consuming food cooked in iron utensils on Iron status in children with iron deficiency anemia”.
    • The evaluation of the effect of Malnutrition on Tuberculin sensitivity test response in children with high index of suspicion of tuberculosis. Oral presentation at National TB Conference 2013 on Feb 14 at New Delhi. Second author.
    • Presentation on role of Indoor air pollution in Pneumonia prevention at Pneumocon- annual conference of IAP at Mumbai on 18th Nov 12
  • State level- Case report on Systemic Bullous SLE presented as poster in Mahapedicon 7-9th November 2014. Second author.

 

Workshops and conferences attended-

  • Conference on Medical Education Technology at MUHS Nashik on 22nd October 2023 MedEduIndia@2047- One nation, One curriculum, One outcome.
  • State Task Force workshop and Training of Trainers 26,27th July 23 at BJ Medical College, Pune as delegate.
  • Completed the Online Course on Hypothesis testing in Public Health by Johns Hopkins University in May 2021.
  • Annual conferences of IAP, Nagpur
  • Workshop for training Medical teachers for mentoring students
  • Workshop on Randomized Control Trials by NIH, US held at New Delhi in 2009
  • Workshop on Analysis of DHS data held at Sydney, Australia funded by AusAID- July 2010.
  • Workshop on Good Clinical Practices held at Nagpur in 2004.
  • Workshop on Severe Acute Malnutrition on 18th and 19th Oct 2010 at Mumbai by Dr Michael Golden
  • Workshop on scientific paper writing and manuscript writing by NIH, US at Goa on 11-14th Sep 2010.
  • Workshop on Faculty-Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses at Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Pune, 8th to 12th Aug 11
  • Workshop on Serious adverse event reporting in clinical trials by PATH and CDSA-CIDP on 7,8,9 October 2013 at Novotel, Bengaluru (Course director Dr YK Gupta, Prof of Pharmacology, AIIMS)
  • Workshop on Scientific Writing in Biomedical Research at Department of Pharmacology, GMCHN on 22nd Sep 2014.
  • Nutritional management of children with SAM workshop, Aug 17-21, 2015 at IIPH, New Delhi by PHFI.
  • Attended Basic NRP workshop in Dept of Pediatrics on 27th July 2017 as delegate.
  • Attended CME on ABG 2017 at IGGMCH Nagpur on 23rd Jul 2017

 

Additional professional activities-

Media presence-

  • Interview on Doordarshan (20 min) on 17th Nov 2012 under Swasth Bharat upkram. Topic- Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram. This programme focused on the care of the newborn baby. It was transmitted all over the state.
  • Talk show on Doordarshan on ARI and Pneumonia in 2016.
  • Interview on Doordarshan under Arogya Sampada on 19.12.20 on Care of newborn and infant.
  • Interview on ABP Maza in May 2021 on Corona 3rd wave and kids.
  • Delivered talk on Biologicals in Allergy management at Ped Allercon 2022, National conference of Allergy and Applied Immunology chapter of IAP on 17 July 2022 at Kingsway Hospital, Nagpur

 

Honors, Recognitions and Awards