Dr. Valsan Philip Verghese
Professor
MBBS, DCH, MD (Paediatrics)
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6507-7795
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valsan-verghese-3279182a0
Department: Child Health
Location: Christian Medical College, Town campus, Ida Scudder Road, Vellore
Skills and Expertise
Dr. Valsan Philip Verghese is a Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Programme Director of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore. He holds an MBBS, DCH, and MD in Paediatrics, and has trained additionally at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has been a long-standing faculty member at CMC Vellore’s Department of Child Health. His clinical expertise and research span paediatric infectious diseases, vaccinology, antimicrobial resistance, tuberculosis in children, scrub typhus, HIV, and neonatal sepsis. He has contributed extensively to research on the epidemiology and management of infectious diseases in children in the South Indian setting, with publications in leading national and international journals. Dr. Valsan Philip Verghese has played a key role in training physicians on the management of HIV infection for the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and has been actively involved in developing diagnostics and clinical guidelines for paediatric infectious diseases. His work reflects a deep commitment to improving outcomes for children with infectious diseases in resource-limited settings.
Publications
1. Boddu D, Verghese VP, Michael JS, Chacko A, Jeyaseelan V. Utility of QuantiFERON®-TB gold In-Tube test compared with tuberculin skin test in Med Microbiol. 2019 Jul-Sep;37(3):433-437. doi: diagnosing tuberculosis in Indian children with malnutrition. Indian J 10.4103/ijmm.IJMM 19 227. PMID: 32003347. 2. Aruldhas BW, Hoglund RM, Ranjalkar J, Tarning J, Mathew SK, Verghese VP, Bose A, Mathew BS. Optimization of dosing regimens of isoniazid and rifampicin in children with tuberculosis in India. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2019 Mar;85(3):644-654. doi: 10.1111/bcp.13846. Epub 2019 Jan 17. PMID: 30588647; PMCID: PMC6379231. 3. Jayaraman Y, Mehendale S, Jayaraman R, Varghese R, Chethrapilly Purushothaman GK, Rajkumar P, Sukumar B, Pillai RK, Mohan G, Radhakrishnan DN, Sridharan S, Babu N, Ganesapillai M, Rao SP, Kar SK, Manchanda V, Kanga A, Verghese VP, Veeraraghavan B. Immunochromatography in CSF improves data on surveillance of S. pneumoniae meningitis in India. J Infect Public Health. 2018 Sep- Oct;11(5):735-738. doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2018.01.002. Epub 2018 Mar 30. PMID: 29606535. 4. Rebecca B, Chacko A, Verghese V, Rose W. Spectrum of Pediatric Tuberculosis in a Tertiary Care Setting in South India. J Trop Pediatr. 2018 Dec 1;64(6):544-547. doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmy007. PMID: 29447374. 5. Kakarlapudi SR, Chacko A, Samuel P, Verghese VP, Rose W. Comparison of Scrub Typhus Meningitis with Acute Bacterial Meningitis and Tuberculous Meningitis. Indian Pediatr. 2018 Jan 15;55(1):35-37. PMID: 29396933.