About Me

Dr. Sujatha Thyagarajan is a leading Paediatric Consultant at Aster RV and Aster Women & Children Hospital with more than 26 years of rich experience. She has extensive experience in the management of complex medical and surgical intensive care, critical trauma, neurosurgery, renal, (liver and intestinal) transplant, pediatric/neonatal surgical children, high-risk pregnancies including pre-term babies, retrieval/transport of critically ill children, renal replacement therapies, neuro-surgical, trauma, cardiac, hemato-oncological and bone marrow/solid organ transplantation cases and other advanced intensive care modalities. She is the founder member, secretary & treasurer of PediSTARS India (Pediatric Simulation and Training Research Society) and Proprietor of I ACT FAST Kids since, Feb 2018. The latter is a training program aimed at teaching parents and school staff to provide first aid to children. Before relocating to India, she worked with premier institutions in the UK like Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Evelina Children’s Hospital, Barts and The London Children’s Hospital, etc. In the last few years, she has been associated with Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Columbia Asia, HCG, and Manipal Hospitals, Bangalore. She is a multi-talented and resourceful person, who tutors medical students (DNB, MRCPCH), delivers international-level presentations, publishes research papers in peer-reviewed publications, and is an esteemed faculty speaker at various national and international forums. She has previously set up and led various pediatric intensive care (PICU) and trauma services for children in both London and India. She has led key research projects in Pediatric trauma and Pediatric critical care. She is the Primary Investigator for the ongoing TRIP study (Trauma Research in Pediatrics) which is a multi-center study of all critically injured children in 2 cities – Chennai and Bengaluru. She completed her graduation (MBBS) from Bangalore University and post-graduation, and other specializations namely DCH, MRCPCH, CCT in Paediatrics, and FRCPCH respectively from the UK.