Chairman, Manipal Advanced Children's Center, Manipal Hospitals, Bangalore.

Chairman and HOD of Neonatology and Neonatal ICUs, Manipal Hospitals Group, India.

Organizing Chairman 12th Annual conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (Neonatology chapter) - IAPNeocon 2019.

Member, REACH (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health), India Board.

Host Examiner(appointed by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK), for MRCPCH Clinical Exams held for the first time in India, November 2011.

President, Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Bangalore Branch,2010.

Appointed MRCPCH Examinations ‘Coordinator’ for Bangalore, India - by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK ( in association with IAP ), 2010 .

Chairman – ‘National Task Force on Newborn Screening Guidelines’, National Neonatology Forum of India, (NNF), 2009.

President- National Neonatology Forum of India (NNF)-(Karnataka State Chapter), (2001–2003).

Secretary- National Neonatology Forum of India (Karnataka State Chapter). (1999–2001).

Appointed the "National Convenor-Neonatal Network Initiative of India", NNF, 2009.

Co-Chairman, Scientific Committee, Indian Academy of Paediatrics’ Annual National Convention, PEDICON, 2009.

Inspector for Institutional Accreditation in Neonatology (DNB). (2008–09) by National Board of Examinations, New Delhi, India.

Invited by UNICEF and Sri Lankan Perinatal Society to conduct Neonatal Ventilation Workshop in Sri Lanka (2008). Recently Invited by the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians to give a Guest Lecture on "Newer advances in Surfactant therapy for RDS in newborns" at their annual congress in Colombo (2010).

Associate Editor, Journal of Neonatology, (Indexed publication of the National Neonatology Forum of India), 2007 -08.

Guest Editor - Journal of Neonatology, 2006.

Member – National Editorial Advisory Board. Journal of Neonatology. (2001–2003), (2005–2006).

Principal Investigator, The "first Indian Multicenter Research Trial" on determining the role of GM-CSF in Neonatal Sepsis. (1997–2000).

Inspector and Examiner in Paediatrics, National Board of Examinations. (2005–2009).

Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS ) Instructor and Faculty.

Reviewer for the indexed Journals-Indian Pediatrics, Pediatrics (AAP) Indian Jl of Pediatrics and Jl of Neonatology.

Nominated as Executive Board Member, National Neonatology Forum, India, 2021.