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Dr Prakash Thiagarajan - Consultant Paediatrician

Prakash Thiagarajan

Dr Prakash Thiagarajan MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRCP (Edin.), FRCPCH read medicine in Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. He did most of his paediatric and neonatal training in the UK (Birmingham, Swansea and King's College Hospital London). He then completed a two year neonatal fellowship in Perth, Western Australia and went on to secure his first consultant position in New Zealand where he became a consultant Paediatrician and Neonatologist and Senior lecturer in University of Otago in Dunedin.

Since 2005 he has been working as a consultant paediatrician and neonatologist in Noble's Hospital, Isle of Man. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He is a specialist training assessor and Member, Council of Reference (neonatology) at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Dr Thiagarajan has an interest in healthcare quality improvement and patient safety in addition to his clinical interests in neonatology (Neonatal Respiratory Physiology, Newer Modes of Infant Ventilation, Neonatal Intensive Care Transport and The Application of Technology in neonatal Medicine).

To date, Dr Thiagarajan has helped and supported the Paediatric Virology Study Group (PVSG) since its birth and has been member of its academic advisory board. In 2016, he gave the plenary lecture of the ‘2nd Workshop on Paediatric Virology’ entitled ‘Zika virus (ZV) in pregnancy and infancy ‘What do the paediatricians need to know?’ and he was awarded with the ‘2016 Paediatric Virology Award in Neonatology’ for his outstanding academic, clinical, research and publishing contribution on neonatal medicine (9).

Dr Prakash Thiagarajan is a member of:

  • CESR (formerly Article 14) assessments committee of The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
  • Advisory Council of British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
  • Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association
  • European Society of Neonatology
  • Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • Fellow, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Some publications listed below:

  1. Mammas, Ioannis N. and Thiagarajan, Prakash(2008) 'Water aspiration syndrome at birth - report of 2 cases', The Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine,
  2. Neonatal and Paediatric air transfers: The Isle of Man experience. Mammas I and Thiagarajan P Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) 97(12):1600, 2008 Dec
  3. Pandemic Influenza: A teaching module – Published on Doctors.Net.UK and written in conjunction with experts from the Health Protection Agency and sponsored by the Department of Health- December 2005.
  4. Highton, D., Thiagarajan, P., and Broadbent, R. S. (2002). The efficacy of trans-cutaneous bilirubinometry: A comparison with serum bilirubin in a New Zealand population.6th Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand and the 12th Congress of the Federation of the Asia and Oceania Perinatal Society (P132).
  5. Broadbent, R. S., and Thiagarajan, P. (2001). Recipient twin limb ischaemia. Verbal presentation at the Perinatal Physiology and Medicine and the 28th Meeting of the New Zealand Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society.
  6. Highton, D., Thiagarajan, P., and Broadbent, R. S. (2001). The efficacy of Transcutaneous Bilirubinometry: A comparison with serum bilirubin in a New Zealand population. Proceedings of the University of Otago Medical School,157, (pp. A8).
  7. Prakash Thiagarajan, Alfred Grauaug, Jeffrey Tompkins and Lyle Gurrin: 'Extremely Preterm Infants, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Home oxygen' presented at the Melbourne’ 99 conference of Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ). Proceedings of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 3’rd annual congress
  8. Broadbent, R. S., Thiagarajan, P., and Craw, S. (2000). Limb ischemia in twin premature neonates: Case reports and literature review. Proceedings of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 4th Annual Congress
  9. Thiagarajan P: Zika Virus in pregnancy and infancy - What do the paediatricians need to know? Int J Mol Med. 38:S642016.

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