Dr Agarwal Pooja Jayagobi

About

Dr Pooja trained as a Pediatrician in India and joined the Department of Neonatology as a Clinical Associate in 2004. After completing MRCPCH in 2008, she completed her Advanced Specialist Training in Pediatrics in 2011 followed by Advanced Specialist Training in Neonatology in 2012.

Dr Pooja’s sub-speciality interests included quality improvement, birth defects and syndromes, neonatal and premature baby nutrition and training of junior doctors.

Education and Training

• AST Completed Specialist Training in Neonatology 2012
• AST Completed Specialist Training in Pediatrics 2011
• MMED (Singapore) 2008
• MRCPCH (UK) 2008
• DCH Sir Harkishandas Narottamdas Hospital (India) 2003
• FIGP Sir Harkishandas Narottamdas Hospital (India) 2001
  
• MBBS Mumbai University (India) 1999
  

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
  
• Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
  
• Clinical Teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
  
• Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital 2021 - Present
  
• Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital 2015 - 2021
  
• Co-Chairperson, Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital 2017 – Present
  
• Member, Homecare Committee – 2016
  
• Member, Birth Defect Team
  
• Member, Homecare Committee – 2016
  

Awards

• Excellent Service Award 2012
• Service from Heart 2011
  

Research Interests

• Human milk
  
• Preterm nutrition
  

Publications

• Ex-utero Intrapartum Treatment (EXIT) Procedure for Giant Fetal Epignathus. Jayagobi PA, Chandran S, Sriram B, Chang KT.Indian Pediatr. 2015 Oct;52(10):893-5
• Judicious utilization of healthcare resources: reducing unindicated pediatric anaerobic blood cultures in a pediatric hospital. Ong I, Jayagobi PA, Raut P, Chong CY.J Healthc Qual. 2015 May-Jun;37(3):199-204; quiz 204-5.
  
• Large preaxial polydactyly with intraepidermal bulla: an unusual form of polydactyly, Deng J, Agarwal Jayagobi P,Lian WQD, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2019;12:e228183. doi:10.1136/bcr-2018-228183
• Docosahexaenoic Acid and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Preterm Infants, Carmel T. Collins, Maria Makrides, Andrew J. McPhee, Thomas R. Sullivan, Peter G. Davis, Marta Thio, Karen Simmer, Victor S. Rajadurai, Javeed Travadi, Mary J. Berry., Helen G. Liley, Gillian F. Opie, Kenneth Tan, Kei Lui, Scott A. Morris, Jacqueline Stack, Michael J. Stark, Mei‑Chien Chua, Pooja A. Jayagobi, James Holberton, Srinivas Bolisetty, Ian R. Callander, Deborah L. Harris, Robert A. Gibson, N Engl J Med 2017;376:1245-55. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1611942
  
• Presented poster on Rotavirus infection in premature neonates – clinical features, risk factors and outcomes from a single tertiary center in Singapore at KKH Annual Scientific Meeting in 2013.
• Reducing Healthcare-Associate Bloodstream Infection in the Very Low Birthweight Infant – Part of a CPIP Team.
  
• Audit on ‘Which Is More Accurate For Correct Positioning of Umbilical Lines?’ – standard Formula Vs Measuring Shoulder to Umbilicus Distance. • Presented Quality Improvement poster at Health Care Quality Conference 2012 –Singapore: ‘Reducing Unindicated Anaerobic Blood Cultures In Paediatric Wards’.
  
• Free paper presentation on ‘Is It Useful to Perform Surveillance Cultures in Neonatal Intensive Care?’ at KK Annual Scientific Meeting in 2008