Qualification – Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, B.Com Hons
College – ICAI, ICWAI, Dyal Singh College
Thought leader and a strategist, offering a proven track record in successfully propelling business growth through financial & strategic planning, driving operational excellence and setting up profit centers while working with blue-chip organizations in positions of leadership (CEO/CFO).
A visionary personality having strong cross-functional expertise and proven strengths in expansion of revenue opportunities through Strategic initiatives, Transformational Leadership, Strengthening Operational Capabilities, Project Controls and implementing Best Practices.
Best known as a Turnaround Specialist and a Go Getter, I have outstanding contributions in steering Business Growth and implementing financial reforms while heading the group strategic functions as a CFO or a CEO across diverse industries like Real Estate, Hospitality, Aviation Retail, Travel business and a lot more. Have successfully implemented new processes/changes in the existing processes, acted as a champion of change and forged international partnerships for expanding operations globally.
Qualification – Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, B.Com Hons
College – ICAI, ICWAI, Dyal Singh College
Thought leader and a strategist, offering a proven track record in successfully propelling business growth through financial & strategic planning, driving operational excellence and setting up profit centers while working with blue-chip organizations in positions of leadership (CEO/CFO).
A visionary personality having strong cross-functional expertise and proven strengths in expansion of revenue opportunities through Strategic initiatives, Transformational Leadership, Strengthening Operational Capabilities, Project Controls and implementing Best Practices.
Best known as a Turnaround Specialist and a Go Getter, I have outstanding contributions in steering Business Growth and implementing financial reforms while heading the group strategic functions as a CFO or a CEO across diverse industries like Real Estate, Hospitality, Aviation Retail, Travel business and a lot more. Have successfully implemented new processes/changes in the existing processes, acted as a champion of change and forged international partnerships for expanding operations globally.
Qualification – B. Arch, P.G. Arch (Turkey), M. Arch (Belgium)
College – School of Architecture, Institute of Environmental Design, Gujarat
Nilanjan Bhowal is one of the leading architects of India who believes “Design is nothing but placing a habitat in nature.” He has done his Masters from Catholic University, Belgium and a Post graduate specialization in energy-efficient architecture from Istanbul Technical University. Since 1995, Nilanjan has substantially contributed in establishing the Green Building movement in India, receiving the IGBC Platinum Award for North India’s first Green Home in 2014. He has been awarded TERI‘s SVGRIHA for India’s first 5 star green home. He has received over 50 National awards for architecture & design from IIA, HUDCO, NDTV, IIID, CWAB to name a few. He has more than 250 national & international publications to his credit and many authored articles in National & International Professional journals. He has made presentations at major international conferences in the U.S. and Europe.
A Philanthropist and Special Educator, started UDAAN from her own house in 1992, inspired by the difficulties faced by two sisters with severe CP.
Her dedication, hard work and perseverance has now transformed what was formerly Shubhra’s School into a Nationally & Internationally recognized institution: UDAAN.
From the inception of UDAAN, she was actively involved in taking up the cause of UDAAN and popularizing it during the vital first decade of its existence. She maintains her active interest and has a vital role for media management strategies.
Dr. Arun Mukherjee was a leading Senior Consultant in Internal Medicine in South Delhi, and .
Sr. Physician at Hamdard University’s Majeedia Hospital since 1991.
He directed the medical and toxicological aspects of management of brain repair in ASD and CP children at UDAAN.
He was nationally and internationally recognized as the pioneer and one of the foremost authorities in HBOT for cerebral palsy in India, and has taken pioneering steps to introduce DAN protocol based biochemical management of Autism Spectrum Disorders in India.
J. Michael Uszler, M.D. is the Medical Director of DrSpectScan.com and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA. As a board certified Nuclear Medicine physician he has 3 decades of academic and clinical experience in hospital-based care, including 8 years at UCLA-Harbor General Hospital, 20 years as Medical Director of Nuclear Medicine at Santa Monica Hospital, and now at Saint Johns Health Center in Santa Monica, as well as in private practice. For the last 20 years he has focused extensively on quantitative regional brain function imaging as part of Nuclear Medicine’s moving into metabolic and molecular function imaging. He is nationally recognized for his expertise of brain SPECT imaging of disorders such as Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, ADD/ADHD, near-drowning, closed head trauma, toxic encephalopathy, stroke and dementia, and in using SPECT and PET brain function imaging to follow the effectiveness of various therapies of these conditions, particularly Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
It was her two CP daughters that inspired Mrs, Shubhra to start UDAAN in 1992. She is one of the founders of an association of parents that have started India’s first Home for Spastics at Dwarka, as well as an institution for rehabilitation of CP children at Charmwood Village. She is a constant source of inspiration, guidance and assistance to UDAAN since its very inception.
Dr Ishwar Verma did his schooling in East Africa, and was a medical undergraduate in Amritsar Medical College. He worked in medicine in East Africa for one and a half years and then went to England to obtain training in pediatrics and genetics. After his membership from the London College of Physicians he joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1967, first as a registrar and then held progressively senior appointments. He eventually became Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Genetics Unit. This unit was recognized as a WHO Collaborating Center in Genetics. Dr Verma trained in genetics in Children’s Hospital in Zurich (University of Zurich); Boston – Massachusetts General Hospital, USA; and National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA; and genetic departments in London, Oxford and Edinburgh in UK.
He left AIIMS in 1996 and now heads the Department of Genetic Medicine at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee of Genetic Disorders to the WHO in Geneva for the past 20 years, is a member of Ethics committee of HUGO, has been the President of Indian Society of Human Genetics, Member of the Task Force on Genetics of the Indian Council of Medical Research and Dept of Biotechnology, Government of India.
His clinical and research interests are in the management of fetal medicine and reproductive genetics, dysmorphology, genetic counseling and prenatal diagnosis using molecular, cytogenetic and biochemical techniques. He has worked significantly on the health problems of tribal communities in India, including those of Andaman islands. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Indian Journal of Pediatrics, which is the oldest speciality journal in India.
Dr. James A. Neubrander is one of the most aggressive DAN doctors. Dr. Neubrander co-authored the 2004 landmark paper “Metabolic biomarkers of increased oxidative stress and impaired methylation capacity in children with autism.” which led to his pioneering use of methyl-B12 injections as discussed at the 2005 DAN conference in Boston. See “Methyl-B12: Myth, Masterpiece, Or Miracle?”
Dr. Neubrander incorporated hyperbaric therapy into his practice in 2005. He utilizes an unorthodox protocol of atmospheric pressure multiplied by the time spent at pressure multiplied by arterial oxygen generated by pressure multiplied by oxygen concentration. One of his most ingenious developments is a traditional HBOT assessment instrument and also a mHBOT assessment instrument. Both are utilized to determine HBOT efficacy in autistic children. Dr. Neubrander’s web page also features a huge collection of testimonial videos from parents that is really worth checking out.
DAN Rossignol, MD, FAAFP has special interest in Autism Spectrum Disorders, PANDAS, Cerebral Palsy, and related neurological and developmental disorders as well as medically complex children and adults. Dr. Rossignol received his Doctorate of Medicene at the Medical College of Virginia and comleted his residency in family medicine at the University of Virginia. He is currently a physician at ICDRC in Melbourne, FL. Coming from an academic background, Dr. Rossignol searched the medical literature looking for a solution after both of his children were diagonized with autism. Finding no obvious solution, he made it his mission to reach and publish in autism. In the last 5 years, he has published 8 papers as the lead author for a total of 14 papers on autism with 5 more to be published this year. He has also written 3 book chapters on autism. Dr. Rossignol received the prestigious Edgar End Memorial Award from the Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society for his pioneering paper in hyperbaric research in autism.
Dr Pierre Marois is a pediatric physiatrist working at Ste-Justine University Hospital (Montreal), as well as in many rehabilitation centers in the province of Quebec, for the past 25 years.
He has been associated with cerebral palsy research projects at McGill University . In his career, he has had the opportunity to observe and to treat several thousand children with cerebral palsy and brain insults. He has expertise in this field and is a highly respected physician. He is responsible for the treatment of 1,500 children having the diagnosis of cerebral palsy, working with many rehabilitation teams in the province of Quebec. Dr. Marois has specific expertise in the oxygenation process, having been one of the leaders of a research team involved in oxygenation projects from 1998-2001 for which he received the inaugural Richard A. Neubauer award. He has put together in 1982 the first dorsal rhizotomy clinic in North America, for the treatment of cerebral palsy. He is actively involved in researches and in the development of techniques for the treatment of handicapped children. He initiated and participated in the three studies that were completed in Canada on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Cerebral palsy and has lectured in many international meetings on that subject.
Since 1986 Dr. Harch’s hyperbaric medicine practice has progressively expanded to include HBOT for off-label indications as well as the 13 “accepted” and five “non-accepted” Medicare/Medicaid indications (see discussion on HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY INDICATIONS). Currently, Dr. Harch performs consultations on any patient seeking HBOT for any indication, “accepted” or off-label. He provides second opinions, assesses patients with any type of central nervous system disorder, evaluates patients’ potential to rehabilitate with HBOT, and accepts patients regardless of their involvement in litigation. HBOT is delivered according to protocols developed by Dr. Harch since 1986 and individually customized to each patient’s condition. These protocols are the basis for nearly all off-label neurological HBOT in the United States today and many of the research trials. These protocols have been applied to over 50 different chronic neurological disorders across the broad categories of vascular, traumatic, ischemic/hypoxic, toxic, degenerative, convulsive (seizures), autoimmune, dementia, and pediatric. A particularly large experience has been generated in stroke, trauma, carbon monoxide, seizure, and pediatric brain disorders, especially CP. Since HBOT is a drug, proper dosing is necessary to avoid toxicity that has been identified by Dr. Harch’s research and clinical practice.
Designation : Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Specialist In :
Child & Adolescent
Designation : Senior Consultant
Department : Gynaecology & Obstetrics
Qualification :
Training :London, Sheffield, Leicester, Hull
Experience :In India-running own Hospital for last 28 Yrs
DELIVERIES
MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY
SURGERY :Laparoscopic and hysteroscopy done besides all abdominal and vaginal surgery.
Designation : Senior Consultant
Department : Pediatrician (Child Specialist)
Qualification : M.B.B.S., M.D.
Experience : Experience of 22 yrs
Brief Profile : Manage all types of paediatric emergencies, including pre-mature babies in nursery.
Dr Mathew Varghese is a graduate and a post-graduate from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University. He is currently the Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, St Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi. He has specialised in trauma care with particular emphasis on reconstructive surgery for trauma, paralytic poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy and paediatric orthopaedic problems.
He is also an associate faculty at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, A WHO collaborating centre at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi as an expert on injury control, pre–hospital care and epidemiology of injuries.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN CP & AUTISM
Mrs. Neela Mazumdar, a Teacher at Sister Nivedita School at Delhi, is an expert in education of children, besides a trained dancer, singer and painter. She is the soul behind all dramatic and cultural functions undertaken by UDAAN, including the highly successful dance dramas (Ramayan and Selfish Giant) performed by our children in the past.
He is associated with many Philanthropic institutions including Mother Teressa’s Missionaries of Charity and SOS Children’s village. He is our legal adivisor, takes a keen interest in our activities and guides us in maintaining our aims and objectives in serving the cause of brain damaged children.
He and his team of colleagues have been the main source of funding that got UDAAN going during the formative decade before Government Grants were received. He continues to be a source of help, guidance and funding, along with his team of businesspersons.
He is a constant source of inspiration, guidance and assistance to UDAAN since its very inception.