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Pramod S. Puligandla

Academic title(s): 
  • Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics and Surgery
  • Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Training Program
Contact Information
Email address: 
pramod.puligandla [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-412-4497
Location: 
Montreal General Hospital
Office: 
Room B.04.2318
Division: 
General Surgery
Hospital title: 
Director, Extracorporeal Life Support Program, Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital
Associate Chair for Peri-Operative Services, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital
Degree(s): 

MD, MSc, FRCRC, FACS, FAAP

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Tomlinson Fellowship 2003-2006
  • MCH Surgical Teacher of the Year Award 2004-2005
  • MCH Surgical Teacher of the Year Award 2008-2009
  • 91社区 Faculty of Medicine Honor Roll for Educational Excellence 2015
  • 91社区 Inaugural Program Director Lifetime Achievement Award 2020
Current research: 

Clinical Interests: 

Health services, surgically correctable congenital anomalies, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, gastroschisis, outcomes research, surgical education, pediatric surgical critical care

Language(s) spoken: 
English
French
Biography: 

Dr. Puligandla attended the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada for medical school where he graduated as a member of its Hippocratic Council Honor Society. He went on to finish his adult general surgery residency (concurrent with a MSc in Respiratory Physiology) in London before moving to the Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital (MCH) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for fellowships in both pediatric surgery and pediatric critical care medicine. He has been dually appointed in both of these divisions as attending staff since 2003. He is only one of two pediatric surgeons in Canada who practices the full scope of pediatric critical care medicine. Since 2008, he has been the program director for the pediatric surgery fellowship training program at the MCH. He currently holds the academic rank of Professor in Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics and Surgery at 91社区. In 2018, he was the first Canadian in 40 years to be elected to serve on the Pediatric Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery where he is the lead for trauma/surgical critical care. Dr. Puligandla is also a co-Director of the Canadian Pediatric Surgery Network (CAPSNet), a national, population-based registry for infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia and gastroschisis.

Selected publications: 
  1. Puligandla PS, ED Skarsgard, and M Offringa for the Canadian CDH Collaborative (2018). Diagnosis and Management of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: A Clinical Practice Guideline. 190(4):e103-112. PMID: .
  2. Allin, B, C. Opondo, J. Kurinczuk, R. Baird, P. Puligandla, E. Skarsgard and M. Knight (2020). Management of gastroschisis: Results from the NETS2G study, a joint British, Irish and Canadian prospective cohort study of 1268 infants. Ann Surg. 2020 Nov 12. PMID: .
  3. K LaRusso, R Baird, R Keijzer, E Skarsgard, and P. Puligandla (2020). Standardizing Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Care in Canada: Implementing National Clinical Practice Guidelines. J Pediatr Surg 55(5): 835-843. PMID: .
  4. R. Petroze, N. Caminksy, J. Trebichavsky, S. Bouchard, A. Le-Nguyen, J-M. Laberge, S. Emil and P. Puligandla (2019). Prenatal Prediction of Survival in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: An Audit of Postnatal Outcomes. J Pediatr Surg 54(5):925-931. PMID: .
  5. C. Blackmore, P. S. Puligandla, S. Emil, R. Romao, and S. R. Lopushinsky (2019). A transition to discipline curriculum for pediatric surgery trainees: Evaluation of a pediatric surgery boot camp from 2017-2018. J Pediatr Surg 54(5):1024-1028 PMID: 30786988.
  6. Wissanji, H and P.S. Puligandla (2018). Risk Stratification and Outcome Determinants in Neonates with Gastroschisis. Semin Pediatr Surg 27(5):300-303. PMID:

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