Bio
Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand graduated from M.G.M. Medical College, Indore (India). As a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford, he received the D.Phil. degree, followed by post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, a categorical Pediatrics residency training at Boston Children?s Hospital and a Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
His pioneering research was widely recognized by the Dr. Michael Blacow Award from British Paediatric Association (1986), Pediatric Resident Research Award from American Academy of Pediatrics (1992), the inaugural Young Investigator Award in Pediatric Pain from International Association for Study of Pain (IASP, 1994), the Jeffrey Lawson Award for Children?s Advocacy from American Pain Society (2000), the Windermere Honorary Lectureship Award from Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (2004), Joan M. Cranmer ?Mentor of the Year? Award (2007) from University of Arkansas, the Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Award* from the Swedish Academy of Medicine (2009), Top Mentor Award, School of Graduate Studies, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (2011), the 9th Annual ?In Praise of Medicine? Public Address at Erasmus University (2014), the Journées Nationales de Néonatologie 2015 Address at The Pasteur Institute (Paris, France), the Nightingale Excellence Award (2016) from Stanford Children?s Healthcare, and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Örebro, Sweden (2019). Dr. Anand founded the Harmony Health Clinic, the largest charitable medical & dental clinic in Central Arkansas and worked to remove inter-faith conflict throughout the state of Arkansas. The Father Joseph Biltz Award (2007) from the National Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ) and the Dr. Martin Luther King ?Salute to Greatness? Individual Award (2008) from the Governor of Arkansas recognized his commitments to community service.
Dr. Anand is currently Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine; he directs the Pain/Stress Neurobiology Lab, the Jackson Vaughan Critical Care Research Fund, and serves as Field Chief Editor for the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics. He has published >275 peer-reviewed articles, edited 9 books or journal issues, and has contributed >65 book chapters and numerous other publications. He is considered a world authority on pain and stress in newborns and the pain management in infants.
Academic Appointments
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Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - Critical Care
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Professor - Med Center Line, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
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Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Honors & Awards
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Honorary Doctorate, Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Örebro, Örebro, Sweden (February, 2019)
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Co-Chair, Annual International Conferences on the Ideal Village Program, Stanford University School of Medicine (2017, 2018, 2019)
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Chair, SBIB-H82 Study Section, Clinical Fetal & Pediatric Applications, NIH/Center for Scientific Review (2018)
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Chief Guest, Inaugural Function of the 37th Annual Meeting of National Neonatology Forum, National Neonatology Forum, India (December, 2017)
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Member, 2018/01 SBIB-H82, Study Section, Clinical Fetal & Pediatric Applications,, NIH/Center for Scientific Review (October, 2017)
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Member, Pediatric Pain Consensus Task Force, Ethical Guidelines for Pediatric Pain Research, The MayDay Fund (2017)
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Member, SBIB-H82, Clinical Fetal & Pediatric Applications Study Section, NIH/Center for Scientific Review (February, 2017)
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Member, Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2016/01 ZHD1 DSR-K (90), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health & Human Development (2016)
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Member, ZRG1 PSE-D (90), Neurological, Aging & Musculoskeletal Epidemiology (NAME) Study Section, NIH/Center for Scientific Review (2016)
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Nightingale Excellence Award for Physicians, Stanford Children?s Healthcare System (2016)
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Elected as Executive Committee Member for the PPRN, the Pediatric Section of the ACTTION Network, Pediatric Pain Research Network (2015)
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Member, Study Section for STTR Applications, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health & Human Development/NIH (2015)