Dr. Lavleen Singh

Full Name

Dr. Lavleen Singh

Qualifications

MD (Pathology)

Specialty

Pathology

Areas of academic and research interest

Pediatric pathology and podocytopathies

Notable Awards and Honors

• Dr. N.C. Nayak Award for Talented Young Pathologist. 32^nd Annual Conference. APCON-Delhi Chapter 2016-17

• AIIMS Excellence Award 2014-15 for Basic Science

• Dr VR Khanolkar Prize, Annual Conference of Indian Association of Pathologists & Microbiologists (APCON), Kochi, 3rd- 6th December 2015

• Dr. V. Ramalingaswami award for Best Oral Paper: 28th Annual Conference of Delhi Chapter IAPM- Sunday, 24 February 2013.Calcineurin inhibitors induced nephrotoxicity in childhood steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome: The spectrum of morphological, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural changes.

• Annual conference of Indian society of Renal and Transplantational Pathology and International CME in renal pathology- 12th-14th September 2013. 3rd prize in Poster Presentation: An Ultrastructural Evaluation of C3 Glomerulopathies in Pediatric Patients- A Study of 25 Cases.

• 29th Annual conference of Delhi Chapter IAPM- 9th March, 2014.Delhi. First Prize in poster presentation: Immunofluorescence on paraffin sections: A valuable salvage technique for renal biopsies.

• Silver jubilee annual conference of Delhi Chapter IAPM- Sunday, 11th April 2010. First Prize in Poster Presentation: Crescentic glomerulonephritis: A clinical and histomorphological study of 46 cases

• First Annual Conference of Delhi Chapter, Indian Academy of Cytologists, 22nd September 2012. First prize in poster presentation: Urine cytology in the diagnosis of BK Polyoma Virus associated graft nephropathy: Experience of a tertiary care Centre”

• Medanta Hepato-pathology CME- Monday, 3rd February 2014. First Prize in Poster Presentation: Staging Non-Cirrhotic Intra-hepatic Portal Hypertension on needle biopsy

• 1st Indian Cancer Congress- 21st -24th November 2013. First Prize in Poster Presentation in Indian Society of Oncology - Esthesioneuroblastoma - correlating treatment outcome with tumor staging, grading and various treatment modalities. [Co- author]

• 36th Annual Conference of The Association of Otolaryngologists of India, Delhi Branch 2013, 27th – 28th April 2013 – First prize in Poster Presentation – Esthesioneuroblastoma – A review of 21 cases. [Co- author]

• Annual cytology conference, Delhi chapter, new Delhi- Second prize in poster presentation- Differentiation of histoplasma and cryptococcus in cytology smears: a diagnostic dilemma in severely necrotic cases. [Co- author]

• 8th Annual conference MICRO-D-CON 2016, New Delhi, 17-19th November 2016- First prize in Poster Presentation – Chikungunya viral infections in pediatric population: laboratory parameters & clinical presentations. [Co- author]

• Annual Conference of Delhi Chapter of IAPM (DAPCON- 2018), New Delhi, 25th February 2018. Third Prize in oral presentation- Childhood phimosis secondary to Lichen Sclerosis: Is there a spatial pattern of histopathological changes? [Corresponding - Author]

• Annual Conference of Delhi Chapter of IAPM (DAPCON- 2019), New Delhi. First Prize in poster presentation. Benign vascular anomalies: A transition from morphological to etiological classification. [Corresponding - Author]

• Pediatric pathology conference held on 16 March’2019. Consolation prize in poster session for the paper entitled “Role of immunohistochemistry in diagnosis and subclassification of benign vascular anomalies in pediatric patients”. [Corresponding - Author]

• VIIIth Annual Conference of Delhi Chapter of Indian Academy of Cytologist”. First prize in oral presentation. Non‐malignant fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumors in pediatric age group: Clues and pitfalls to the cytological diagnosis. 31st September 2019

• “VIIIth Annual Conference of Delhi Chapter of Indian Academy of Cytologist”. First prize in oral presentation. Novel cell stabilization solution enabling cerebrospinal fluid cytology reporting over an extended period. 31st September 2019

• Clinical Images competition 2019. Consolation prize under medical innovation category. A novel preservative - Revolutionizing cerebrospinal fluid cytology reporting. March 2020

Books and Chapters

• Fibroblastic/Myofibroblastic Tumors of Childhood. 1st Edition. Lavleen Singh (editor). Atlanta, GA, USA.

• Singh L, Singh G, Dinda A.K. (2015). Nephrotic syndrome: Etiology, Pathogenesis and Pathology: Pathology of Nephrotic Syndrome in Adults. 1st edition. Muhammed Mubarak(editor), Karachi, Pakistan: Nova Publications.

Top Research publications

1. Singh L, Singh G, Bhardwaj S, Sinha A, Bagga A, Dinda A. Dense Deposit DiseaseMimicking a Renal Small Vessel Vasculitis. J Am SocNephrol. 2016;27:59-62.

2. Singh L, Singh G, Sharma A, Sinha A, Bagga A, Dinda AK. A comparative study on renal biopsy before and after long-term calcineurin inhibitors therapy: an insight for pathogenesis of its toxicity. Hum Pathol. 2015;46:34-9.

3. Ranjan R, Jain D, Singh L, Iyer VK, Sharma MC, Mathur SR. Differentiation of histoplasma and cryptococcus in cytology smears: a diagnostic dilemma in severely necrotic cases. Cytopathology. 2015 ;26:244-9.

4. Singh L, Ranjan R, Arava S, Singh MK. Role of p40 and cytokeratin 5/6 in thedifferential diagnosis of sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma. Ann DiagnPathol. 2014 Oct;18(5):261-5.

5. Singh L, Jain D, Madan K, Mathur SR, Chatterjee P, Guleria R, IyerVK. Pulmonary mycoses diagnosed using exfoliative cytology: infection orcolonization? ActaCytol. 2013;57(6):604-10

6. Singh L, Sengar M, Goyal S, Mansi M, Khurana N, Mohta A. Childhood phimosis secondary to lichen sclerosus: Is there a spatial pattern of histopathological changes?. The American Journal of Dermatopathology. 2018 Nov 1;40(11):824-8.

7. Agarwal H, Singh L, Gupta N, Sengar M. Non‐malignant fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumors in pediatric age group: Clues and pitfalls to the cytological diagnosis. Cytopathology. 2020 Mar;31(2):115-21.

8. Rastogi K, Singh L, Khan NA, Goyal S, Khatri A, Gupta N. Benign vascular anomalies: A transition from morphological to etiological classification. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. 2020 Mar 13:151506.

9. Rastogi K, Singh L. Myofibromatosis. Fetal and pediatric pathology. 2019 Nov 15:1-8

10. Singh L, Rastogi K. A novel preservative-Revolutionizing cerebrospinal fluid cytology reporting. The Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2020 Nov;152(Suppl 1):S24.

11. Rastogi K, Singh L, Khatri A, Mishra K, Gupta R. Reliable cerebrospinal fluid cytology reporting over an extended period: Is it possible by adding formol saline and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid as cell preservative?. Diagn Cytopathol. 2020;48(8):745-751.

Ongoing Research Projects

Early Career Research Grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST): Podocytouria in children with nephrotic syndrome: Can urine podocyte level and its growth characteristics predict steroid resistance