Dr. Karunesh Kumar

Dr. Karunesh Kumar is one of the best paediatric gastroenterologists in Delhi, currently associated with Apollo Hospitals. He has more than a decade of experience in dealing with complex issues of gastroenterology, hepatology as well as transplantation in children. Dr. Karunesh specializes in metabolic and genetic liver disorders, intestinal failure, Nutrition and nutritional rehabilitation as well as Neuro-gastroenterology and motility disorders in children. He is a specially trained doctor and has gained his fellowship from the prestigious RCPH (UK). 

He has penned multiple research papers and studies on issues such as Celiac disease and underdiagnosed and missed causes of neonatal cholestasis in publications of international repute. He is a member of various international and national medical organizations such as the European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics.

• 1. Indian Academy of Paediatrics
• 2. European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
• 3. International Liver Transplant Society
• 4. Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health
• 5. Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

• - Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Nutrition, Metabolic disorders, Hepatology and Transplantation, RCPCH London

• - Mehta S, Kumar K, Bhardwaj R, Malhotra S, Goyal N, Sibal A. Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis: a study in children from a liver transplant center in India. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology. 2021 Jun 13
• - Mehta S, Malhotra S, Kumar K, Kashyap V, Sibal A. Acute liver failure secondary to Ayurvedic Herbal medication in a child: a case report. Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology. 2021 Apr 1;10(1):29-32.
• - Malik S, Bhatia V, Kumar K, Sibal A, Goyal N. Pediatric Hepatic venous outflow tract obstruction: experience from a transplant centre. Indian Pediatr. 2019 Nov 15;56(11):965-967
• - Malik S, Kumar S, Hussain H, Bhatia V, Sibal A, Malhotra S. Celiac disease: what Indian pediatricians know about the disease? Indian J Gastroenterol. 2019 Jun;38(3):263-267. doi: 10.1007/s12664-019-00958-3
• - Kumar K, Kapoor A, Bhatia V, Sibal A. Congenital hypopituitarism: underdiagnosed and missed cause of neonatal cholestasis - a case series. Hepatol Int (2018) 12(Suppl 2): 181 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12072-018-9852-3