Faculty

• Pediatric Intensive care & Emergency, Pediatric allergy & General Pediatrics

• Manual of Essential Pediatric Intensive Care
• Manual of Pediatric Intensive Care
• >40 chapters in Recent Advances in Pediatrics
• Achar’s textbook of Pediatrics
• Suraj Gupte textbook of Pediatrics

• HealthyKids International Fellowship in Pediatric Critical care medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
• FIAP: Fellow of Indian Academy of Pediatrics

National Conferences

• Poster Presentation-Neonatal Cholestasis-PEDICON2002, National Pediatric Conference, Bangalore, Karnataka.
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Term NeonatesNEOCON2002, National Neonatology conference, Kochi, Kerala.
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis- An analysis of risk factors-NEOCON2002, National Neonatology conference, Kochi, Kerala.
• Neonatal Klebsiella pneumoniae septic arthritis following NICU outbreak infection-NEOCON2002, National Neonatology conference, Kochi, Kerala.
• How good is our neonatal transport? : A prospective observational study of neonatal transport in Bangalore city. NEOCON-2003, National Neonatology conference, Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh.
• Policy to practice: BFHI 10 steps for successful breastfeeding in high risk babies: A prospective observational study in a baby friendly hospital. NEOCON-2003, National Neonatology conference, Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh.
• Beta-butyric acid in the assessment of severity and prognostication of diabetic ketoacidosis in children. PEDICON-2004, National Pediatric conference, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• GERD respiratory presentations. RESPICON 2006. Bangalore

State Conferences

• Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Term NeonatesNEOCON2002, IV Karnataka State NNF Annual Conference, Mangalore, Karnataka.
• Neonatal MortalityA major contributor of Infant MortalityNEOCON 2002, IV Karnataka State NNF Annual Conference, Mangalore, Karnataka.
• Blood Transfusion Practices in NeonatesPEDICON-2002, XXI Karnataka State Pediatric Conference, Gadag, Karnataka.
• An impact of antenatal advice on breast-feeding practices in urban slums of Bangalore city. PEDICON-November 2003, XXII Karnataka State Pediatric Conference, Raichur, Karnataka.
• Prospective observational study of Dengue fever. PEDICON-2003, XXII Karnataka State Pediatric Conference, Raichur, Karnataka.
• Pediatric office practice profileA survey of Pediatric clinics in Bangalore city. PEDICON-2003, XXII Karnataka State Pediatric Conference, Raichur, Karnataka.
• Convulsions as primary presentation of nutritional rickets. PEDICON-2006, XXVI Karnataka State Pediatric Conference, Gulbarga, Karnataka.
• The study of frequency, risk factors and protective role of breastfeeding against acute respiratory infections infants under one year of age: a prospective longitudinal observational study. PEDICON-2006, XXVI Karnataka State Pediatric Conference, Gulbarga, Karnataka.
• IV fluid therapy in children: CRITICON 2015, National Conference held at Bengaluru March 2015

Award paper (Best free paper award)

• An impact of antenatal advice on breast-feeding practices in urban slums of Bangalore city. PEDICON-2003, XXII Karnataka State Pediatric Conference, Raichur, Karnataka.

Best Student Thesis paper award

• 3% saline in the management of bronchiolitis in children. Annual CME of IAP-Bangalore Chapter 2010

International Conference Papers

• Policy to practice-BPNI 10 steps for successful breastfeeding in high-risk babies. A prospective observational study in a baby friendly hospital. Asia-Pacific conference on breastfeeding practices, November-2003, New Delhi, India
• Infant feeding practices in urban slums of Bangalore city. Asia-Pacific conference on breastfeeding practices, November-2003, New Delhi, India
• Impact of world breastfeeding week celebration and re-orientation programme on breastfeeding practices in baby friendly hospitals in Bangalore city. Asia-Pacific conference on breastfeeding practices, November-2003, New Delhi, India

National Journal Papers

• Karunakara BP, Maiya PP and Mallikarjuna HB. Sarcoidosis presenting as recurrent erythema nodosum in a child, Indian Journal of Pediatrics. Indian J Pediatr 2002; 69:819
• Karunakara.BP and Maiya PP. Cerebral Malaria, Pediscan-2002, Journal of Bangalore Pediatric society.
• Karunakara BP, MaiyaPP, Radhakrishna Hegde, Pradeep. Dextropropoxyphene poisoning in a child-Indian J Pediatr 2003; 357-358
• Karunakara BP, Ananadbabu MN, Maiya PP, Ashok Rizwan and Indira Sunil. Perforation of Appendix in a neonate-Indian J Pediatr 2004; 71(4): 355-356
• Karunakara BP, Maiya PP, Anandbabu MN, Indira Sunil and Prashanth S. Iatrogenic gastric perforation in a neonate. Indian J Pediatr 2004;71: 661-662
• Gayathri N, Karunakara BP, Maiya PP and Sandya Belwadi. Neonatal septic arthritis with candida Albicans: A case report. The Indian Practitioner 2004; 57 (Neonatal septic arthritis with candida Albicans: A case report. The Indian Practitioner 2004; 57 (7): 487-488)
• Maiya PP and Karunakara BP. Fluid therapy in children with acute respiratory illnesses. Pediscan (Journal of Bangalore Pediatric society) -2004; 1(2): 6-8.
• Karunakara BP, Maiya PP and Sathish. Management of non-traumatic coma in children. The Intensivist 2005:11-16
• Karunakara BP, Maiya PP and Durai Padmanaban. Non-Invasive monitoring in PICU. The Intensivist 2006:13-17
• Karunakara BP and Jyotirmanju. Status epilepticus following Eucalyptus oil poisoning. Journal of Pediatric Sciences. J Pediatric Sciences 2012; 4 (2): e 132
• Mallikarjuna HB, Karunakara BP and Shruthi Patil. Familial occurrence of Kawasaki disease. Journal of Pakistan Medical Sciences. J Pak Med Stud 2012; 2 (4): 151-2
• Karunakara BP. Environmental Influences on cardiopulmonary development. Enrich 2013; 1: 6-7
• Mahesh Kumar KB, Karunakara BP, Manjunath MN and Mallikarjuna HB. Aerosolized hypertonic saline in hospitalized young children with acute bronchiolitis: a ramdomized clinical trial. J Pediatr Sciences 2013;5(1):e17
• Karunakara BP, M Sharanabasavesh, PP Maiya and Mallikarjuna HB. Convulsions as primary manifestation of nutritional rickets. Al Ameen J Med Sci 2013; 6 (3): 281-284
• Karunakara BP and Sangeetha Shenoy. Severe Acute malnutrition. Recent Advances in Pediatrics 2014
• Somashekar AR, Rinsy PV, Mallikarjuna HB and Karunakara BP. Comperative study of efficacy or oral montelukast with inhaled fluticasone in the control of childhood mild persistent asthma. Pediatr Pul and Crit care 2015; 1(1)¨12-18
• Jyotirmanju CS, Shruti Patil and Karunakara BP. Pattern of causes of traumatic brain injury in children in a tertiary care center. MedPulse nt J of Pediatrc 2018;5(1):26-28
• Hanumantha Rao Maddukuri, Pramila Kalra, Karunakara BP, Poornima Venugopal. Accidental levothyroxine ingestion in children: Review of four cases. Thyroid Research and Practice 2021: March 2, 2021, IP: 124.40.247.84]
• Sunil V. Furtado, Pranoy Hegde, Rasmi Palassery, BP Karunakara. Factor XIII Deficiency and Intracranial Bleed: Surgical Management and Prophylaxis with Cryoprecipitate. J Pediatr Neurol 2021: DOI https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1731026. ISSN 1304-2580.
• Manjunath Babu, Mallikarjuna Honnali Bannajji, Pradeep Gejjegenahalli Channabasappa Maralusiddappa, Manjunath Mallikarjuna Nagalli, Karunakara Beechalli Puttaiah, Somashekar Ankanahalli Ramu. Growth Pattern of Exclusively Breastfed Low Birth Weight Infants. PERINATOLOGY 2015: 16 (1); Apr–Jun 2015

Indian Academy Of Pediatrics & Subspecialty Chapters

• Life Member – IAP
• Life Member – IAP-BPS
• Life Member – IAP-ICC
• Life Member – BPNI
• Life Member – IYCF
• Life Member – IAP-IDC
• Life Member – IAP-AIC
• Life Member – IAP-Neurology
• Life Member – IAP-Environmental chapter
• Life Member – ISCCM
• Life Member – IMA
• Life Member – IAPMLC
• Life Member – ISSCM
• Indian Medical Association
• COMHAD