Dr. Lalitha Kailas

Principal, Professor

MBBS, MD

Area of Interest

  • Endocrinology and rheumatology

Additional Responsibilities

  • Principal
  • Member of Senate KUHS : 20189-2022
  • Ethical committee member , CDC, TVM from 2019
  • Chairman Institutional Human Ethics Committee , Institute of Advanced Virology , Thonnakkal, Kerala  since 2022

Achievements, Memberships, Awards

  • Life time member of IAP 
  • Reviewer Indian Pediatrics : 2023 
  • FIAP award 2021

Publications

Title

Journal / Book

Publication details (Year, Volume, Page No. etc.)

Authorship

1st / 2nd / Other

State /Reg / Nat / Int

Indexed in

Neurodevelopmental assessment of neonates with congenital hypothyroidism in a tertiary care center: 

Indian Journal of Child Health

Vol-4, Issue-3, July-Sept 2017


Nat


Clinical & laboratory profile of dengue fever cases in children less than 12 years in atertiary care centre in rural kerala

 IP International Journal of Medical Paediatrics and Oncology

October- December 2018:4(4):137-141 

2nd author

Int


Clinical profile and neuroimaging of neonates with influenza encephalopathy

Indian Journal of Child Health

27Apr.2018;5(4):272-5                         

4th author

Nat


Newborn foot length measurement as a screening tool for the prediction of birth weight

Journal of medical sciences and clinical research

volume 07/issue 06/ page 761-767/june 2019.




Influence of risk factors on malnutrition, in children of one to five-years age group: a case control study

Indian Journal of Applied Research (IJAR)

Volu   volume - 9/issue -7/ July 2019.



Nat


A study of serum zinc levels in children admitted with pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital in India
Journal

Ashrin A Naushad,  Lalitha Kailas and Sreekanth K Sivaraman.  A study of serum zinc levels in children admitted with pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital in India. Indian Journal of Child Healt. 2022; 8(12): 426-429. https://doi.org/10.32677/ijch.v8i12.3235

 


2nd
Int

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Chapter on Varicella


IAP textbook of Paediatrics


5th & 6th edition


1st 


Nat 



Chapter on goiter 


PG Textbook of Paediatrics 


5th & 6th edition 


1st 


Nat 



Chapter on Parvo virus


IAP textbook of infectious diseases 


3rd edition 


1st 


Nat



Association of junk food consumption , daily screen timeand daily physical activity with overweight and obesity among school children aged 8-10years – A cross sectional case control study 


JCDR


VOL 17 (2)SC08-SC12 Feb 2023 


3rd 


Nat


DOAJ


Study of association of respiratory viruses in the etiology of acute lower respiratory tract infections in children and correlation with clinical and laboratory features : role of emerging new viruses 


IJRMS


Vol12 NO.1 (2024): January 2024


2nd 


International 


Pubmed


Presentations

Topic

Guest lecture / Oral / Poster / Convener of Workshop

Name of the event

Conference / CME / Workshop

Venue

Dates

Level

General Pediatrics

Faculty

PEDICON 2020,

57th  Annual Conference of the Indian academy of Pediatrics

Indore

9 to 12th Jan 2020

National

Research Projects

Project

Completed / Ongoing

Funded

Y / N

Collaborated

Y / N

Published

Y / N

A study on the clinical outcome of moderate persistent bronchial asthma treated with standard therapy versus vitamin D supplementation as adjunct to standard therapy.

Completed

      N

       N

      N

Timing of tooth eruption among children attending pediatric department of a tertiary care centre in South Kerala.

Completed

      N

        N

       N

A study of plasma zinc level and nutritional risk factors in children with pneumonia in the age group of 6 months to 5 years.

Completed

      N

         N

       N

Risk factors of overweight and obesity among 8-10 year old school going children in Trivandrum.

Completed

      N

         N

       N

Newborn screening using pulse oximetry for cardiac and non cardiac hypoxaemic conditions.

Completed

      N

         N

       N

Proportion of Non alcoholic fatty liver diseases among obese and overweight children and its associated factors in a tertiary care centre.

Completed 

      N

         N

       N

Assessment of screen time on behavioral and growth parameters in children aged between 2-8 years in a tertiary care center in South Kerala


Completed 


N


N


N


Relationship between Serum Zinc levels and febrile seizures – A hospital based case control study


Ongoing


N


N


N