Rashmi Ranjan Das is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar. Previously, he was a Senior Research Associate at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi. Besides holding a Master Degree, he has been awarded with Fellowship of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), and Fellowship of the Asia Pacific Society of Respirology (FAPSR). He is a certified Physician for Pediatric Nutrition by the Boston University School of Medicine. He has a special interest in Pediatric Respiratory medicine, Probiotics, and Infectious disease. He is an active researcher and has been part of many studies including some multicenter clinical trials. The notable Clinical trials include: Hepatitis B Vaccination Schedule in Healthy Infants, Phase III trial of New Anti-malarial Drugs in Pediatric Plasmodium vivax and Falciparum malaria, the ISPOT Study (IndiaCLEN Trial of Oral Amoxicillin for Severe Pneumonia in Children), and Saccharomyces Boulardii and Nitazoxanide in Rotavirus Diarrhea. Besides these, he is part of the Global Registry for Study of RSV (Respiratory Syncitial Virus) Infection, Netherland. He was also part of the SPRING (Strengthening Publications Reporting Infection in Newborns Globally) Group, the finding of which was published in the Lancet Journal. He has published more than 200 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings, including more than 100 papers in journals indexed in the Pubmed/Medline. He is also an author and reviewer of Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. He is also an author and reviewer of prestigious journals like Lancet, BMJ, JAMA, PLOS, Chest, Thorax, Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. He was part of the 2012 WHO Guidelines on improvement of Newborn Health in Low and Middle income Countries. He is an author and editor of 9 books. He is on the editorial board of several journals including World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics, SAGE Open, Journal of Respiratory Research, and Frontiers in Pediatrics (Section on Pediatric Hematology and Immunology). Currently, he is working in the team funded by the CDC USA on Hospital Infection Control to detect and prevent antimicrobial resistance in India.
