Dr Karthik Nagesh pursued his training in Neonatal Intensive Care at Queen Charlotte and Chelsea Hospitals in London, and at the Hope Hospital, University of Manchester School of Medicine.

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Nagesh returned to India in 1992, to set up one of the first tertiary level care Neonatal Intensive Care Units in India. He is well known for having setup a ‘state of the art NICU’ at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore with the reputation of providing high quality intensive care to the sickest of small neonates ethically.He was the Head of Paediatrics at Manipal Hospital from 2001 to 2004 and later has been the Head of Neonatology. He then turned his focus to promoting Paediatric Research in priority areas relevant to India and to pursue imparting education in neonatology more actively amongst paediatricians. He is the Founder and Managing Trustee of the ‘Foundation for Newborns’, a trust which does charity work for sick babies and promotes newborn health. He was President of the National Neonatology Forum ( Karnataka,India) from 2001 to 2003. He was nominated to be the President of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics, Bangalore for the year 2010. He was conferred the Fellowship award of the National Neonatology Forum of India (2013) for lifetime service in the field of neonatology. Recently Bestowed with the prestigious FIAP (Fellowship award of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics) in 2020 for lifetime contribution to Child Health.

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More than 20,000 neonates have been treated by him and his dedicated team of doctors and nurses these last 28 years. Many of his sickest and smallest patients are now themselves highly accomplished intelligent adults excelling in various professions. They have launched a unique initiative to help the cause of Premature babies on ‘World Prematurity day’-The ex-Preemies Club.

He has received the prestigious Fellowship of The Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health, London (FRCPCH) for his contributions in the field of neonatology and paediatrics.