11. Notable Practice Award from Wessex Deanery for ‘Southampton Neonatal Simulation Pilot Project’ as part of Wessex Deanery Notable Practice Educational Quality Awards 2011
Dr Alok Sharma was brought up and did his initial schooling in Australia and Papua New Guinea followed by completing his GCSE and A-level equivalent from Delhi Public School RK Puram, India in 1993.
He completed his MBBS from GSVM Medical College Kanpur India with an outstanding academic record securing 1st position in the University and 17 gold medals.
After securing 114th rank in the national postgraduate medical entrance exam which is given by nearly 80000 UG doctors he completed 3 years of postgraduate training in Paediatrics from MGM Medical College Indore India in 2003. This included a Master's Thesis covering research on Meconium Aspiration in Neonates. This was nominated for the D K Shrivastava Gold Medal in 2003. After completing further training in neonatal and paediatric intensive care from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India he passed the PLAB exam for further training in the United Kingdom.
Dr Alok Sharma has worked in hospitals in Buckinghamshire, Aberdeen (Scotland), and the North West London rotation, completing Basic Specialist Training (MRCPCH) in 2007. He secured a Specialist Registrar post in the South West completing Core training in Torquay and Exeter in Paediatrics, Neonatology and Community Paediatrics in 2008. He was successful in obtaining a Specialist Grid Neonatal Training post in the Wessex region of the UK in 2008. He worked in Southampton and Portsmouth and completed grid training in neonatal intensive care including echocardiography in 2011.
Dr Alok Sharma completed a further period of training in Neonatal transport as part of a fellowship from Leicester University Hospitals (CenTre Neonatal Transport) before taking up a Consultant post in neonatology in Southampton in 2012. He has completed 10 years in Southampton having developed the Simulation programme, Network education, and Data programme till 2017. From 2012 to 2021 he has run the Wessex-Oxford neonatal education programme and the neonatal fellowship programme recruiting and helping to train 40 overseas fellows in the UK.
Dr Alok Sharma left Southampton in November 2021 to take up a consultant post at Corniche Hospital Abu Dhabi, UAE in December 2021. He is the lead for audit, and quality improvement and helps with delivery of the simulation programme.
