Dr. Ponni Sivaprakasam — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Ponni Sivaprakasam is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 17 years of experience. She is listed in pediatric hematology, hematology and medical oncology, and her qualifications are MBBS and MRCPCH.

Her four listed procedures are the core of a children's blood service: pediatric bone marrow transplant, pediatric leukemia, thalassemia and sickle cell disease. The first is the thread that connects the other three, because a transplant can end thalassemia or sickle cell disease outright rather than manage it for a lifetime.

Her training was taken largely in the United Kingdom. She holds MRCPCH, the membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, from London. She completed a clinical fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children between June 2007 and September 2009, and from July 2011 to March 2013 was a fellow in BMT and co-ordination at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, covering both paediatric and adult transplant. Working across both age groups in a single transplant unit is uncommon, and it means the adolescent patients who fall between the two services were part of her routine caseload rather than an exception.

Her affiliations span three countries' worth of centres: Gleneagles Global Health City in Perumbakkam, Chennai, where she now practises, along with Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Christie's Hospital in the UK, The Hospital for Sick Children, the Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre and the Pediatric Oncology Cancer Institute.