• Consultant – Paediatric Critical Care – Baby Memorial Hospital, Calicut – Present
• FNB Resident – Paediatric Critical Care – Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi – Mar 2017 – Mar 2019
• Consultant Paediatrician – Santi Hospital, Omassery, Calicut – Feb 2016 – Feb 2017

• Paediatric critical care and intensive monitoring
• Advanced neonatal and paediatric ventilatory support
• ECMO and lifxe support procedures
• Postoperative management of congenital heart disease and liver transplants
• Paediatric neurocritical care
• Paediatric and neonatal intensive care (Level 3 PICU & NICU)
• Management of multisystem inflammatory syndromes in children (MIS-C)
• Airway and respiratory support in critically ill children
• Haemodynamic management and critical resuscitation

• Fellowship in ECMO – ECMO Society of India
• RCPCH
• FNB (Paediatric Intensive Care) – Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi – 2019

• Young Talent Award – Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), 2020

Textbook Chapter Authorships

• Rauf A, Ashokan A. Oxygen delivery devices. Chapter 81. Comprehensive Textbook of Allergy. 2024. JayPee Publishers; ISBN: 978-9356961906
• Rauf A. Point of Care Ultrasound - Diastolic dysfunction. IAP Updates and Guidelines - Pediatric Critical Care 2024. Dec 2024. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers; ISBN: 9789356967762
• “High Flow Nasal Cannula in Children: A Concise Review and Update.” Critical Care Updates 2019. Chapter 100. Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
• “Lung mechanics with ventilation: physiology and monitoring.” IAP Speciality Series on Pediatric Intensive Care, 3rd Edition 2019. Chapter 6. JayPee Publications
• “High frequency oscillatory ventilation in pediatric acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.” Critical Care Updates 2018. Chapter 97. Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

Case Reports

• Rauf A, Ahmed F, Rahiman FA, et al. Pleural effusion as an extrahepatic manifestation of Hepatitis A infection in a child. BMH Medical Journal. Vol. 12 No. 2: April–June 2025; ISSN 2348–392X
• Rauf A, Rahiman FA, Poornima MV, Sudarsana J, Sehgal R, Ummer K. Early Diagnosis and Successful Treatment of a Child with Confirmed Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis. Indian J Pediatr. 2025 Apr;92(4):446. doi: 10.1007/s12098-025-05458-1
• Rauf A, Sachdev A, Gupta D, et al. A Survey of Anticoagulation and Transfusion Practices during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in South West Asian and African Countries. Indian Journal of ECMO 2024;2(4):77–80
• Rauf A, Vijayan A, John ST, et al. Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome with Features of Atypical Kawasaki Disease during COVID-19 Pandemic. Indian J Pediatr. 2020;87(9):745-747. (First report of MIS-C from Asia, cited 110 times)
• Rauf A, Pilania RK, Latheef KM, Raj R, Rawat A. Early diagnosis of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in the neonatal period and successful haematopoietic stem cell transplant in infancy. Curr Med Res Pract 2021;11:288-90
• Rauf A, Vijayan A, Hashitha VM, John ST, Peringat J. Rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury following multiple bee stings in a child: a case report. J Pediatr Crit Care 2021;8:252-4
• Madathil S, Priyadarshi M, Antony SA, Rauf A, John ST. Respiratory Distress in a Newborn with Severe Birth Asphyxia. J Peds. 2021 June. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.06.020
• KK, Abdul Rauf et al. Autoimmune Manifestations Associated with COVID-19 Infection in Children: A Series of Three Cases From a Single Centre. BMH Medical Journal. 2021; v. 9, n. 1, p. 19-22; ISSN 2348–392X
• Latheef A, Sabik S, Rauf A, et al. Incomplete Kawasaki Disease - A diagnostic Challenge; Case series. Calicut Journ Pediatr. 2020;1:25-8
• Rauf A, Joshi RK, Aggarwal N, Joshi R. Postoperative cerebral oximetry monitoring helps in early detection of diminished flow in Blalock-Taussig shunt. Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2019;12(2):169-171
• Rauf A, Gupta D, Sachdev A. Exchange transfusion as a treatment strategy in Severe Pertussis with Hyperleukocytosis in an infant - A Case Report. J Pediatr Crit Care 2019;6(4):40-42
• Rauf A, Gupta N, Sachdev A, et al. Murine typhus infection presenting with multiorgan dysfunction in a child: A case report. Curr Med Res Pract. 2018;9
• Pandiarajan V, Rauf A, Kumar N, et al. Strawberry Gingivitis: First Manifestation of a Vasculitic Disorder in a Young Child. J Clin Rheumatol. 2016;22:444-5

Research

• Rauf A, Joshi KJ, Aggarwal N, et al. Effect of Albumin Addition to Cardiopulmonary Bypass Prime on Outcomes in Children Undergoing Open-Heart Surgery (EACPO Study) - A Randomized Controlled Trial. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020 Oct 20;2150135120959088
• Rauf A, Sachdev A, Venkataraman ST, et al. Dynamic Airway Driving Pressure and Outcomes in Children With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure. Respir Care. 2020 Oct 6:respcare.08024
• Tiwari A, Balan S, Rauf A, et al. COVID-19 related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C): a hospital-based prospective cohort study from Kerala, India. BMJ Paediatrics Open 2021;5:e001195
• Middelburg JG, Crijnen TEM, D’Antiga L, Verdoni L, Rauf A, Middelburg RA. Association of Ethnicity with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Related to SARS-CoV-2 Infection: An International Case-Referent Study. Front. Pediatr. 2021;9:707650
• Rauf A, Singhi S, Nallasamy K, et al. Non-respiratory and non-diarrheal causes of acute febrile illnesses in children hospitalised in a tertiary centre: A prospective study. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018;99:783-8