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Editor Suraj Gupte MD FIAP Director Children's Health Center Professor and Head (Ex) Pediatric Unit Government Medical College and Associated Hospitals Jammu, India,
Honorary Director: Pediatric Education Network
Editor: The Short Textbook of Pediatrics, Textbook of Pediatric Emergencies, Pediatric Yearbook Series, Pediatric Today Monograph Series, Newer Horizons in Tropical Pediatrics, Towards MRCPCH Part II (Theory) Examination
Author: Differential Diagnosis in Pediatrics, Instructive Case Studies in Pediatrics, Pediatric Drug Directory, MCQs in Pediatrics, Infant Feeding, Speaking of Child Care: Everything You Wanted to Know, The Baby Book: The Parents’ Guide from Birth to Infancy
Coeditor: Asian Journal of Maternal and Child Health (Manila, Philippines)
Section Editor: Pediatrics Today (New Delhi, India)
Editorial Adviser: Asian Journal of Pediatric Practice (New Delhi, India)
Editorial Advisory Board Member: Indian Journal of Pediatrics (New Delhi, India), Synopsis: A Current Survey of World Literature in Pediatrics (Detroit, USA), Indian Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (Jaipur, India), Maternal and Child Nutrition (Preston, UK)
Examiner: National Board of Examinations (NBE) for DNB, New Delhi, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) and several universities
Pediatric Faculty Selection Expert: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Punjab Public Service Commission
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Contributors Preface
This 15th Annual volume of the noted international series, RecentAdvances in Pediatrics, first launched in 1991 and now concurrently in its 15th Special Volume (RAP Special Vol 15: PediatricNephrology), aims at covering topical issues in pediatrics. The 38 state-of-the-art chapters contributed by as many as 51 distinguished contributors drawn from within India and abroad, attempt to review the depth and breadth of knowledge in the field of pediatrics with special reference to its applicability in the Indian subcontinent.
Each and every chapter is remarkable by its excellence, providing a stimulating, mature, informed and, not infrequently, provocative update. Such an approach is understandably befitting when the goal is not only to inform but also to motivate discussion, interaction, research and innovation.
In keeping with the professed policy of the series, multidisciplinary approach with an eye on future continues to occupy pride of place in this volume too.
We wish to record our indebtedness to our distinguished contributors for reposing trust and confidence in our editorship. Nevertheless, we offer our apology to some authors whose contributions could not be included in this volume for reasons beyond our control.
Our thanks are due to the Advisory Editorial Board for providing inputs and advice in various editorial matters, and to the peer reviewers for providing speedy assessment of the submitted chapters.
Our daughter, Novy, a prefinal MBBS student in the Government Medical College, Jammu, and son, Manu, a 5th semester student of BE in the MBS College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu, were gracious enough to volunteer all sorts of assistance in taking the project to its logical conclusion,
Last but not the least, our gratitudes are due to the Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd and their dedicated staff for the skillful production qualities of the volume.
Suraj Gupte
Academic Editor
Shamma-Bakshi Gupte
Executive Editor