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Shawnee Medical Center Clinic recently announced the retirement of Dr. Ramesh Mohan, a pediatrician who has worked in Shawnee for 36 years.
“I am honored to have been associated with the original founders of Shawnee Medical Center Clinic in 1972 and a part of the growth and success over the years,” Mohan said.
Mohan said he has seen a great number of changes at the clinic since he began his practice more than three decades ago.
“I started the area’s first Level II neonatal intensive care unit where we cared for premature babies as small as 11⁄2 pounds,” Mohan said. “Because the infants required round-the-clock care, I slept at the hospital nearly every night.”
Mohan said the clinic’s pediatrics department has grown with an excellent staff and perhaps the greatest advancement in technology has been in the many advanced diagnostic procedures.
“Microscopic sampling allows health-care professionals to take only a small specimen of blood for analysis,” Mohan said. “Babies, especially premature ones, have so little blood.”
Born in Mombasa, Kenya, Mohan is a graduate of St. Xavier’s College in Bombay, India, and the SGS Medical College at the University of Bombay. He fulfilled his pediatric residency requirement at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Ill., where he served as chief pediatric resident.
Following his residency, Mohan took a neonatology fellowship at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago.
“My love of pediatrics began during my six-month internship in Kenya caring for malnourished babies with terrible nutritional deficiencies,” he said. “While there, a group of Peace Corps workers saw potential in me and how eager I was to improve my expertise. They encouraged me to do my post-graduate studies in the United States.”
Mohan said he intends to spend his retirement traveling, but he will live in Shawnee where he raised his family.
“I love this quiet, friendly community and will miss my patients a great deal,” he said. “It’s been so gratifying to watch my smallest patients grow up over the years. Many now have children of their own.”
Shawnee Medical Center Clinic recently announced the retirement of Dr. Ramesh Mohan, a pediatrician who has worked in Shawnee for 36 years.
“I am honored to have been associated with the original founders of Shawnee Medical Center Clinic in 1972 and a part of the growth and success over the years,” Mohan said.
Mohan said he has seen a great number of changes at the clinic since he began his practice more than three decades ago.
“I started the area’s first Level II neonatal intensive care unit where we cared for premature babies as small as 11⁄2 pounds,” Mohan said. “Because the infants required round-the-clock care, I slept at the hospital nearly every night.”
Mohan said the clinic’s pediatrics department has grown with an excellent staff and perhaps the greatest advancement in technology has been in the many advanced diagnostic procedures.
“Microscopic sampling allows health-care professionals to take only a small specimen of blood for analysis,” Mohan said. “Babies, especially premature ones, have so little blood.”
Born in Mombasa, Kenya, Mohan is a graduate of St. Xavier’s College in Bombay, India, and the SGS Medical College at the University of Bombay. He fulfilled his pediatric residency requirement at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Ill., where he served as chief pediatric resident.
Following his residency, Mohan took a neonatology fellowship at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago.
“My love of pediatrics began during my six-month internship in Kenya caring for malnourished babies with terrible nutritional deficiencies,” he said. “While there, a group of Peace Corps workers saw potential in me and how eager I was to improve my expertise. They encouraged me to do my post-graduate studies in the United States.”
Mohan said he intends to spend his retirement traveling, but he will live in Shawnee where he raised his family.
“I love this quiet, friendly community and will miss my patients a great deal,” he said. “It’s been so gratifying to watch my smallest patients grow up over the years. Many now have children of their own.”
