Arrived Too Soon

Dr. R. Kishore Kumar founded Cloudnine in 2007 to further his vision for bringing high quality maternal & neonatal healthcare to India, on par with international standards. He conceived the idea of a facility dedicated to providing exclusive and comprehensive services in maternal and child care. As the Founding Chairman, and senior neonatologist, he has been instrumental in securing the pinnacle of success achieved by Cloudnine today.Dr. Kishore is an internationally acclaimed neonatologist who has worked in four continents over the course of his career including North America, UK, Asia and spent 12 years in Australia. He completed his MBBS from Gulbarga University and his DCH from Mysore University and London. Amongst his many qualifications, he also has an MD with a gold medal from Mysore University, MRCP (Paed) & FRCPCH from UK as well as MRCPI (Paed) and FRCPI from Ireland. He has also completed his Fellowship in the Advanced Neonatal ICU with an FRACP from Melbourne, Australia. At the time of his qualification, he was one of the youngest and highest qualified neonatologists in the world. To his credit, he has worked only in teaching hospitals around the world. Among his many awards and accreditations is the honour of being felicitated by former US President Bill Clinton for his exceptional achievements in the field of neonatology. He recently completed his executive MBA (MHCD) in health care delivery from Harvard Business School (HBS).Dr. Kishore Kumar saw lot of deaths during his training in India, but hardly saw any deaths during his 16 year tenure in the developed world and also saw what the intact survival of a premature baby means to the parents. Hence he had this dream of providing similar care in India and is committed to his passion for scaling new heights in neonatology as he pioneers this modern concept of maternal healthcare in India with Cloudnine. To this effect, he has achieved more than what he dreamt for the Cloudnine group can boast of over 1000 deliveries a month, having nearly ZERO percent maternal mortality and 99.2% survival for babies including premature babies as premature as 24 weeks. These achievements led to several awards such as the Economic Times, Leaders of Tomorrow Award received in Dec 2012 from Mr. Anand Sharma, Commerce minister of India. Cloudnine also received the BEST Maternal and Neonatal Hospital Award for three consecutive years 2011, 2012 and 2013. He received Australian Service Excellence Award - the ONLY health care facility in India to have received this award. He was also bestowed with Pride of Karnataka award recently. He has also established teaching and research programmes of international repute and has published over 80 papers in national and international conferences in the last few years. These academic contributions led to Indian Academy of Pediatrics gold medal in 2012, FNNF by National Neonatology Forum of India and Fellow of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (FIAP) in 2018.