Shahryar Majeed Chowdhury, MD, PhD

Shannon D’Alton received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a Master of Science in Nursing at The Medical University of South Carolina. She completed a post-graduate fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, focusing on neuro-oncology and pediatric hospice and palliative care. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Nursing at The Medical University of South Carolina. Mrs. D’Alton is certified by the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board and a member of the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association. She specializes in the care of children with complex chronic conditions and has expertise in pediatric neurology and palliative care. Her clinical interests include recognition of the physical, social, and psychological burdens associated with chronic illness and loss. Her research interests include grief and bereavement, palliative care and understanding the impact of sibling death on surviving children and the parent-child dyad. Mrs. D’Alton currently practices perinatal palliative care as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in the Advanced Fetal Care Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Katherine Chetta is a neonatologist who works primarily at Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Charleston. She has a special interest in the nutrition of the preterm infant, including the science of breastmilk and its many benefits. She earned her M.D. from Baylor College in Medicine in Houston with high honors, and was in the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). She completed residency at Texas Children's Hospital and neonatal-perinatal fellowship at the University of Texas Health & Science Center in Houston. She is passionate about caring for babies, and feels honored to serve the families of South Carolina.

Dr. Sonal Bhatia was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India and completed her medical school and pediatric residency at one of the top four medical colleges in the city. She then worked for close to three years as an assistant professor of pediatrics at the topmost government-run medical school and hospital before moving to the United States to pursue her strong interest in child neurology. She did her initial training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York before moving to Charleston, South Carolina to be with her husband who was training here to become a pediatric hematologist-oncologist. She completed the remainder of her child neurology residency and her fellowship in epilepsy at the Medical University of South Carolina and then joined the division of pediatric neurology as a faculty in July 2018.She is board-certified in child neurology and epilepsy (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology). Aside from general pediatric neurology and epilepsy, her clinical interests include pediatric demyelinating diseases and neuroimmunology. She also enjoys teaching residents and medical students. She has several publications, as well as poster and oral presentations, to her credit. She is currently the associate program director of the Child Neurology Residency Program at the Medical University of South Carolina. Besides English, she is proficient in four other Indian languages (Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Gujarati) and enjoys reading, playing scrabble, and traveling.