Profile Summary

Medical Qualifications:

• MBBS (Mumbai University)
• MS Ortho (Mumbai University)
• DNB Orthopaedics (NBE, New Delhi)
• SICOT Fellow (Belgium)
• Oncology Fellow: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada & Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
• ICOE - MTF Fellow (Bone Banking & Tissue Transplantation), New Jersey, USA

 Designation: Director, Critical Care

Years of experience: 27+ years

Introduction:

Dr J. D. Sunavala is the Director of Critical Care at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre and has been working in the field of Critical Care and Internal Medicine for more the 27 years.

Awards & Publications:

Awards & Publications:

• Established a Critical Care Department of 50 beds in various disciplines at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre
• Instituted a new Department of Critical Care at Well Care Hospital, Dubai
• Planning, organizing and training of ICU at Breach Candy Hospital (1st Pulmonary Critical Care unit in the country started by Dr. F. E. Udwadia)
• On Editorial Board of Chest - Indian Edition, official publication of the ACCP
• Invited by the Medical Education and Research Trust of Karnataka in March 1986 to organize the 1st conference and CME programme on Critical Care Medicine at the Victoria Hospital, Bangalore, for post graduate students of Karnataka University (Appendix F-2)
• Elected President - World Conference on Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Bombay, Dec 1995. Overall in charge of the conference - planning, organizing and setting up of the scientific programme. The conference was attended by over 700 delegates from India and abroad
• Invited as the Member of the Governing Council of the IV International Multi-faculty Conference & the Mediatech Triple Expro 95 exhibition held in Bombay, Dec 95
• Elected on the Council of International Governors of ACCP for term 1996-2000 at the convocation ceremony in San Francisco on 28th Oct 1996 and re-elected in 2000-03
• Awarded Fellowship of  the Indian College of Physician by the Association of Physicians of India, 1999

Memberships:

Memberships:

• Member of the Research Committee, Breach Candy Hospital and Research Centre since 1986
• Part-time Research Officer (Oct 1993 to Nov 1994), Cardiovascular Thoracic Centre K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai