Jatinder Bhatia, MD

Dr. Jatinder Bhatia is a 1975 graduate of the Armed Forces Medical College of the University of Poona, India. He completed his pediatric residency, including a year as chief resident, at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta followed by a joint fellowship in neonatology and pediatric nutrition at the University of Iowa under the mentorship of Drs. Allen Erenberg and Samuel J. Fomon, respectively. He then joined the faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston where he rose through the ranks to associate professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine and Community Health. He also held a joint appointment at the university’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

In 1991, Dr. Bhatia returned to the Medical College of Georgia as a professor of pediatrics. Three years later he was named chief of the Section of Neonatology and program director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship. In 2003, he was named vice chair for clinical research in the Department of Pediatrics. He also is a professor in the Medical College of Georgia School of Graduate Studies.

Dr. Bhatia is an honorary consultant for Philippine Children’s Medical Center in Quezon City. He has been recognized for his academic and clinical work throughout his career with honors such as the Distinguished Faculty Award for Institutional Service at the Medical College of Georgia and the Georgia Nutrition Council Award of Excellence.

Dr. Bhatia’s areas of research interest include neonatal nutrition with a special emphasis on total parenteral nutrition, reaction oxygen species and hepatic dysfunction.

His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, industry and foundations. He is the author of more than 100 articles, abstracts and book chapters and has made presentations of his work nationally and internationally.

He is currently secretary-treasurer for the Southern Society of Pediatric Research and was recently appointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee of Nutrition. His memberships include the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, the American Institute of Nutrition, the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Dietetic Association. He is an active reviewer for numerous journals and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Perinatology.