Doctor Profile
They are highly experienced and well-trained surgeons
Dr Ponni Sivaprakasam
Department: Paediatrics
Designation: Senior Consultant – Pediatric oncology
Qualification: MBBS, MRCPCH (London)
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Dr Ponni Sivaprakasam has an overall experience of 17 years and is currently working as a Consultant at Gleneagles Global Health City. She is listed as a JACIE inspector by EBMT (European Blood and Marrow transplantation) group, which involves inspecting other centers applying for JACIE accreditation and maintaining it. She has diagnosed and worked with cancer patients. She has been responsible for ongoing management for the patient and continuity including follow-up care. She also plays a key role in teaching juniors on Pediatric Haemato-Oncology Fellowship Program.
She has also taken up a managerial role in developing the paediatric oncology block (newly constructed). This involved recruiting new nurses, dieticians, social workers and an oncology pharmacist.
Experience
Experience:
- Present
- July 11 to March 13
- Jan 11 to July 11
- Jan 10 to Jan 11
- June 07 to Sept 09
- Aug 06 to May 07
- Feb 03 to Aug 06
Consultant, Gleneagles Global Health City
Fellow, BMT & co-ordination Bristol Royal Hospital for Children Pediatric & Adult BMT
Consultant, Pediatric Oncology Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre
Consultant, Pediatric Oncology Cancer Institute
Fellowship Clinical – The Hospital for Sick Children
Staff Grade-Oncology (Pediatric/Adolescent Oncology), Christie’s Hospital
Senior SHO
Expertise
- Phlebotomy cannulation
- Bone marrow aspirate
- Bone marrow trephine
- Bone marrow harvest
- Lumbar puncture
- Delivery of intrathecal chemotherapy
- Accessing Ommaya Reservoir and administering chemotherapy
Publications
- Mesenchymal stromal cells for the treatment of steroid-resistant acute graft versus host disease: Factors influencing clinical responses – Biol Blood Marrow Transplant.
- Incidence of adenovirus infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: Findings from the advance study – Biol Blood Marrow Transplant.
Doctors
Dr Murugu Sundara Pandian
M.S (General Surgery), MBBS, M.Ch. Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Dr Selvakumar Malleeswaran
MBBS, MD (PGI, Chandigarh), DNB (Anaesthesia), European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine
Dr Sreenivasan V
MBBS, DNB, DTCD(IDCCM), Fellow in HIV medicine and Diploma in Diabetology