AdminA Sikh American physician is recipient of Nils Rosénvon Rosenstein Medal which is world’s most prestigious honour in the field of pediatrics. Kanwaljeet Singh Anand completed his undergraduate and medical training at University of Indore (India). He was a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford (U.K.), where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.). He […]
A Sikh American physician is recipient of Nils Rosénvon Rosenstein Medal which is world’s most prestigious honour in the field of pediatrics. Kanwaljeet Singh Anand completed his undergraduate and medical training at University
of Indore (India). He was a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford (U.K.), where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.). He completed post-doctoral fellowship in Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, followed by Pediatric Residency training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Training at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Anand has received numerous awards for his research, and was awarded the Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Medal from the Swedish Academy of Medicine and Swedish Pediatric Society (the highest international award given to pediatricians every 5 years). For community service activities, he received the Father Joseph Biltz Award (2007) and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Salute to Greatness” Individual Award (2008).
He has published 150 peer-reviewed articles, edited multiple books and journal issues on neonatal pain and stress, the long-term effects of early adverse experiences in infancy, and pain system development. Dr. Anand was the inaugural holder of the Morris & Hettie Oakley Chair in Critical Care Medicine at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (2001-2009) and currently holds the St. Jude Chair of Pediatric Critical Care
Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. The first was a series of studies by Kanwaljeet Singh Anand as a PhD student at Oxford University.With support from a RhodesScholarship and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Anand began one of the first research programmes on pain in neonates. Anand developed Sophisticated methods of measuring hormonal stress responses using very small samples of blood ( Anand et al.,
1985). He then demonstrated in clinical series and well-controlled, randomized trials, that term and preterm neonates mounted a major stress response following surgery for patent ductus repair.
Anand’s research was well received in the academic community. Anand won the 1986 Dr Michael Blacow prize for the best paper by a trainee at the annual meeting of the BritishPaediatric Society (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, n.d.).
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