About Dr. Nitin Maheshwari

Professional qualifications

1. Certificate of completion of specialist training (CCT): This is a five year long, higher specialist structured training programme leading to post of full time consultant in National Health Services, UK.
Granting body: Oxford deanery, Oxford, UK
Year of award: 2009

2. MRCPCH
Granting body: Royal college of Paediatrics & Child Health, London
Year of award: May 2004

3. Doctor of Medicine (M.D., Paediatrics)
Granting body: NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur, India
Year of award: May 2001

4. Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (M.B; B.S.)
Granting body: Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India
Year of award: April 1997

Professional experience

Dr. Nitin Maheshwari is one of the very few doctors in India, who despite having very successful career in England, has decided to come back and work close to his roots.

He graduated from GR Medical College, Gwalior in 1997. He won six gold medals as a medical student including best boy medical student (1996) and B Nagraj gold medal for general proficiency. For his achievements as a medical student he was given award of best medical student of Madhya Pradesh state (1996) by Indian Medical Association. He completed his post graduate degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD, Paediatrics) from NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur in 2001. He was awarded with Jame Flett gold medal by Indian Academy of Paediatrics for best research work in India (2001).

Subsequently he decided to go to United Kingdom to broaden his experience. At this stage, he also wrote a book “Recent manual on PLAB” (Published by JAYPEE publishers in India and abroad, 2001) to help young Indian medical graduates in training for PLAB exam, an exam for entry into medical training in United Kingdom. He completed his MRCPCH in 2004 whilst working at St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester. He than joined five years long, highly structured training programme at Oxford, leading to post of consultant in UK. During this period, he received higher specialist training in paediatric neurology, neurophysiology, developmental paediatrics, neonatal neurology and neuro intensive care at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He published many articles in international scientific journals, related to paediatric neurological conditions and evidence-based medicine, during this stage. He achieved certificate of completion of training (CCT, Oxford) in 2009. Subsequently he worked as a honorary consultant (department of Paediatric neurology), John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford for short period, before deciding to move back to India.

Academic awards and gold medals

Membership of professional societies