Designation: 
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Office Phone: 
022-25767870
Email: 
dalal_rupal@yahoo.com
Research Interests: 

Maternal, infant & young nutrition,early childhood outcomes,importance of correct breastfeeding techniques, behaviour change of caregiver through counselling and training

Education: 
  • Cook County Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois (July 1996 – June 1999 ) : As a pediatric intern and resident, received significant hands on experience, didactic teaching, primary care, specialty training, and a balance of community and hospital experience in 2nd largest hospital in USA
  • Columbus Hospital, Chicago, Illinois (Jan 1996 – May 1996) : Worked as an intern in an Inpatient as well as Special Care Nursery.
  • B.Y.L. Nair Hospital, Mumbai, India  (Feb 1993 – Jan 1994): Clinical Clerkship in various aspects of medicine, Completed electives including general medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology and preventive and social medicine
  • Topiwala National Medical College & B.Y.L Nair Hospital, Mumbai, India (July 1988 – Jan 1993): Degree: Bachelors of Medicine and Bachelors of Surgery
Experience: 
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of C-TARA, IIT Bombay, India (Jan 2019- Present) : Guiding graduate students on Maternal, Infant & Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) and understanding of causes of malnutrition among children & engineering as well as biological solutions to tackle malnutrition. Also, guiding undergraduate interns on various solution-oriented apps and software for health care workers as well as families to monitor children and tackle various issues using assisted technology. 
  • Santa Clara Valley Medical Hospital, San Jose, USA (July 1999-2021): Worked as a Pediatric Urgent Care provider in one of the busiest hospitals in San Jose, CA.
  • Founding Medical Director, Foundation for Mother & Child Health, Mumbai, India (FMCH)  (Jan 2007 – May 2017)
  • Director of Health & Nutrition, Shrimati Malati Dahanukar Trust, Maharashtra (SMDT) (Jan 2013 – Present) : Both at FMCH & SMDT, initiated Preventive and Therapeutic clinics for malnourished children to alleviate malnutrition in children age 0-3 years in urban slums of Mumbai as well as rural Maharashtra. Developed the TOT program for the pediatric residents, nutritionists, and NGOs as well as Govt. health care workers to decrease maternal & infant mortality rate, improve nutrition status of children in 1st 1000 days besides training of management of SAM as per latest WHO guidelines. Initiated Malnutrition clinic in the largest Pediatric Charitable hospital (Wadia) in Mumbai and developed integrated approach to inpatient & outpatient management of malnourished children. Started human milk bank in the same hospital. Also, helped developed the customized software for data entry for all our beneficiaries for growth & data monitoring and analysis.
  • Team Lead at  Health Spoken-Tutorial Nutrition Project, IIT Bombay  (February 2017-Present) : Working with Spoken Tutorial team to develop MIYCN animated tutorials for health care workers in open source. Created 75 tutorials on this topic. Translated in 15 different languages including Korku language. Also, coordinated with the team to translate Global Health Media Projects Breastfeeding videos in Hindi. 
  • Team Leader for 1-800-Maa Aur Shishu Poshan Helpline, IIT Bombay (September 2017-Present) : Collaborating with Computer Science & Engineering Department to develop 1-800 Nutrition Helpline for free advice to mothers on lactation, nutrition for children as well nutrition during pregnancy and lactation with the help of team of trained volunteers in 6 different languages; English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil & Telugu.
  • Ex Consultant to Department of Health & WCD, Government of Maharashtra on Malnutrition (March 2016-Feb 2017) :
  • Consultant to WIN Foundation, L&T PCT, Tata Trust, Adani Foundation, Action against Hunger, and various other NGOs  (2016- Present) : For training various team in training their field functionaries on MIYCF.
  • Consultant to various district & State level administration – UP, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra, Nandurbar, Nashik, Washim, Thane, Jashpur District, Banaskanatha, Sabarkantha, Bardoli, Ahmedabad Municipal Corp (2016- Present) 
Awards: 

Outstanding achievement in promoting literacy among underprivileged children at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, USA

Publications: 
  1. Dalal, R., Fancy, M. K., Chaudhary, S., Abraham, M., Vir, S. C., & Gaurav, S. (2023). Establishment of cross-cradle hold technique combined with intensive breastfeeding counselling positively impacts the weight gain rate in early infancy. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 19, e13529. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13529 
  2. Dalal, R. Stop Not Till The Goal Is Reached. Indian Pediatr 59, 11–12 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-022-2411-y
  3. Dalal, R., Iyer, S., Abraham, M. and Yaddanapudi, L., 2020. Supporting healthy growth in infants in low-resource settings in Mumbai, India. Field Exchange 63, p.43.
  4. Gupta, P., Shah, D., Kumar, P., Bedi, N., Mittal, H.G., Mishra, K., Khalil, S., Elizabeth, K.E., Dalal, R., Harish, R. and Kinjawadekar, U., 2019. Indian Academy of pediatrics guidelines on the fast and junk foods, sugar sweetened beverages, fruit juices, and energy drinks. Indian pediatrics, 56(10), pp.849-863.
  5. Dalal, R., 2019. Role of Pediatrician in Helping Mothers to Sustain Exclusive Breast Feeding for Six Months. Nutrisearch.
  6. Athavale, P., Hoeft, K., Dalal, R.M., Bondre, A.P., Mukherjee, P. and Sokal-Gutierrez, K., 2020. A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators to implementing recommended infant nutrition practices in Mumbai, India. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 39(1), pp.1-12.
  7. Dalwai, S., Choudhury, P., Bavdekar, S.B., Dalal, R., Kapil, U., Dubey, A.P., Ugra, D., Agnani, M. and Sachdev, H.P.S., 2013. Consensus Statement of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics on integrated management of severe acute malnutrition. Indian pediatrics, 50(4), pp.399-404.
  8. Ganguly, S., Tony, B., Kumar, A., Dalal, R., Shah, N.G. and Moudgalya, K., 2018, December. Spoken Tutorials in Health Sector. In 2018 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E) (pp. 102-105). IEEE.
  9. Dalal, R., 2015. Effective Breastfeeding : Making a case for relearning the technique and skills of counselling – Official magazine of Pediatrics, Gujarat
  10. Consensus Statement on Guideline for Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition published in Indian Pediatrics endorsed by Indian Academy of Pediatrics, April 2013

Indian Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines on the Fast and Junk Foods, Sugar Sweetened Beverages, and Energy Drinks, August 2019 

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