0000-0003-2961-4148 About
Dr Premkumar has worked in the Department of Hepatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh as Assistant Professor for over 7 years. She completed her MBBS training at the Lady Hardinge Medical College and post graduate MD Medicine training at Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi University during which she has won several academic medals. She completed her DM Hepatology at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi in 2016 and joined PGIMER in 2017 as Assistant Professor. She is currently the faculty in charge of the Liver Critical Care Unit in the Department of Hepatology, PGIMER at Chandigarh, India. She has special interest in liver disease including viral hepatitis, alcohol related liver disease, fatty liver disease, cirrhotic cardiomyopathy, critical care and liver failure. She has extensive experience in Liver Transplantation. She has ongoing research trials in anemia and coagulation, critical care and cardiomyopathy, and public health management of viral hepatitis.
She is part of a team under India’s National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme and has been involved with training primary care physicians and practitioners about the management of viral hepatitis in the ECHO sessions of the Punjab Model for Elimination of Viral Hepatitis. She was awarded the honorific ‘Hepatitis Elimination Champion’ on World Hepatitis Day 2019 by the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination.
Dr Premkumar is the Deputy Editor for the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology (ISSN: 0973-6883), Official Journal of the Indian Association for Study of the Liver. She is the Managing Editor of the Hepatology section of the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, and an Associate Editor of the JGHOpen since 2023.
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Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Associate Professor2017 - Present
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Publications (166)
- Incidence, Predictors, and Course of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Following Direct-Acting Antivirals Therapy in a Prospective Genotype-3 Predominant HCV Elimination Compensated Cirrhosis Cohort Save
- Reply: Nuances in POCUS-guided hemodynamic assessment in cirrhosis Save
- Challenges and solutions for women in gastroenterology practice: From training to leadership roles Save
- Role of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in clinical hepatology Save
- Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS)-Guided Pragmatic Fluid and Albumin Resuscitation and Hemodynamic Monitoring in Cirrhosis and Septic Shock Save
- Comparison of the Hypotension Prediction Index and pulse pressure variation-guided haemodynamic management for intra-operative hypotension during kidney transplant: A randomised controlled trial Save
- Infections in Standard or Tapered Dose of Prednisolone for Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis: A Randomized Trial (STASH Trial) Save
- Empirical Antifungal Therapy Improves Survival in Patients With Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure With Suspected Invasive Fungal Infections: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial Save
- Impact of Resistance Associated Substitutions and Predictors of Treatment Failure Following Direct-acting Antiviral Therapy in a Viral Hepatitis C Elimination Cohort Save
- Refractory Ascites in Patients With Cirrhosis Save