Assistant Professor in the Division of Neonatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vivek Shukla, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Shukla earned his medical degree from Sardar Patel University, India. Dr. Shukla completed his Pediatric Residency at the State University of New York in Brooklyn, NY, and his Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has received several research recognitions, notably including the SPR Fellow’s Clinical Research Award for 2020 and 2021. He has built a robust clinical research foundation in neonatal outcomes research and has designed and led five observational outcome association/prognosis studies, five single-center clinical trials, and published several review articles and book chapters focused on improving perinatal outcomes. His research interest is focused on the application of Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence by using prognosis for individualized intervention for improving perinatal outcomes. Using a large database from several low- and middle-income countries, Dr. Shukla built machine learning predictive models for accurately predicting the risk of perinatal mortality and an easy-to-use clinical tool for triaging infants per the risk of mortality. His ongoing projects include machine learning-based prediction of adverse maternal and fetal/neonatal outcomes using large national and multinational databases.
