Sarabon Tahura

Sarabon Tahura is Associate Professor in Pediatric Pulmonology at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital & Institute and consultant at Square Hospitals Ltd. Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is the 1st Pediatric Interventional Pulmonologist in Bangladesh, performs all basic & advanced bronchoscopic procedures in children and neonate, that appears as passion in her professional life. Her field of special interest is pediatric airway foreign body and its retrieval by flexible bronchoscope. She performed the first flexible bronchoscopy guided endobronchial tumor debulking in children, as well as use of pediatric cryotherapy and APC by flexible bronchoscope in Bangladesh.

Sarabon Tahura completed her graduation (MBBS) from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Then she obtained her professional degree FCPS (Pediatrics) from Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeon. Afterwards, she completed fellowship in Pediatric Bronchoscopy from Shangdong University, China. She has been awarded fellowship-FCCP by American College of Chest Physicians.

She is actively involved in the development of different pediatric and pediatric pulmonology curriculum, guidelines, courses, post graduate examinations, training program & bronchoscopy workshops as faculty and resource person in Bangladesh. She wrote book on ‘Pediatric Bronchoscopy’ for students and residents of pediatrics and pediatric pulmonology. She is frequently invited as international faculty to give keynote presentations at international meetings, conferences and bronchoscopy workshops in different countries.