Rate My Professor Ajay Anvekar

Dr. Ajay Anvekar is an Adjunct Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Curtin Medical School within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He serves as a neonatologist in the Department of Neonatology at King Edward Memorial Hospital, with additional clinical experience at Fiona Stanley Hospital's Department of Neonatal Paediatrics.

Ajay Anvekar's career history includes appointments at major neonatal units in Perth. His research specializations are in neonatal medicine, evidenced by peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations. A key publication is "Outcomes of infants with Apgar score of zero at 10 min: the West Australian experience," published in 2015 in Archives of Disease in Child - Fetal and Neonatal Edition. Co-authored with Judy McMichael and Shripada Rao from the Department of Neonatology at King Edward Memorial Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital, the study interrogated neonatal databases to evaluate survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants requiring prolonged resuscitation. Another related paper, "Don't stop now? How long should resuscitation continue at birth in the absence of cardiac activity?" (2015, same journal), co-authored with Piyush Shah, Judy McMichael, and Shripada Rao, examines the appropriate duration of resuscitation efforts. In preterm infant research, "Time to regain birth weight - a marker to predict the severity of retinopathy of prematurity" (2021, Italian Journal of Pediatrics) reports on data collected from medical records and neonatal databases of preterm infants in a tertiary Australian neonatal intensive care unit to assess growth as a ROP severity predictor. He also published "Effect of shift work on fatigue and sleep in neonatal registrars" (2021, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health), which studied fatigue and sleep in registrars working 12-hour rotating shifts in a tertiary neonatal intensive unit. Anvekar presented a poster on chronic pulmonary hypertension in neonatal chronic lung disease (2022, PSANZ) using data from Fiona Stanley Hospital, and contributed to posters at PSANZ & FAOPS 2026. These works impact neonatal care protocols and staff management in Australia.