Dr. Subashini Partheeban — Visiting Consultant - Paediatric ENT in Chennai

Dr. Subashini Partheeban is a Visiting Consultant in Paediatric ENT at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 10 years of experience.

Her clinical list is built around children. Pediatric airway disorders, pediatric hearing loss and pediatric cochlear implant surgery are recorded separately from the general entries, and adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy are the two operations children have most often. Mastoidectomy, sinus surgery, septoplasty, laryngeal surgery and hearing loss complete the list.

Her qualifications were taken in two countries. She read MBBS at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute in 2001 and the DLO at the same institution in 2005, then took both the DOHNS and the MRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 2010.

Her posts follow that split. She has worked at Princess Royal University Hospital, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospital and King's College Hospital in the UK, and at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Sathyabama Dental College General Hospital and Saveetha Medical College, before her current appointment at Rela Hospital. For a family travelling from abroad, three UK hospital posts alongside the Indian ones make the record easy to read.

Her published work is on the same subjects as the list. She has written on the high incidence of secondary haemorrhage following coblation tonsillectomy, on an altered clinical course of glomus tympanicum in a case report, and on adenoid hypertrophy presenting with hypertension. The tonsillectomy paper concerns a complication of the operation she performs most often, which is the kind of question a surgeon asks of her own practice.