MPROvE are working hard to bring first class neonatal training to those who need it

The MPROvE team strongly believe that teams that train together improve Neonatal Care together.

Dr Alok Sharma

Dr Alok Sharma is a consultant Paediatrician with 2 decades of experience in simulation and human factors training. He is certified in healthcare simulation education by the society of simulation healthcare.

He is one of the founding members of MPROvE and his principal areas of interest are cascading medical error and risk through in situ simulation, barriers to the uptake of simulation by multidisciplinary teams and identification of latent threat.

Dr Ranjit Gunda

Dr Ranjit Gunda is a Consultant Neonatologist at Rainbow Children’s Hospital in India. He was lead for the Wessex-Oxford Neonatal Education Programme and faculty on the MPROvE Neonatal Instructor Programme and Simulated Neonatal airway workshop.

Dr Gunda has trained in neonatal intensive care at Aberdeen, Southampton and Leicester. He has completed a research project on the parental perception towards therapeutic hypothermia. His research interest is the use of simulation as quality improvement methodology, in patient safety and risk.

Dr Jasim Shihab

Dr Jasim Shihab is a Consultant Neonatologist at Lancashire Woman and Newborn Centre, East Lancashire NHS Trust. Dr Shihab has trained and worked in neonatal intensive care in Bangalore, Chennai and Trivandrum in India and Medway, Aberdeen and London in the United Kingdom.

He has keen interest in simulation. He was the trainee lead for simulation when working for the Royal London Neonatal Unit. He is currently the neonatal simulation lead for the East Lancashire NHS trust. Jasim has a special interest in moulage, manikin modification and difficult neonatal airway management.

Hinge Ltd

We're a digital agency based in Southampton and we love nothing more than getting involved with projects that make a real difference to the world we live in.

We don't see ourselves as an external company, rather that we're an invested partner in the online neonatal education platform and ultimately an extension of the MPROvE academy team.

We'll be helping to deliver the MPROvE educational resources mproveacademy.com in a consistent and reliable way.