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Dr Dhanupriya Sivapathasuntharam

BMBS, BMedSci, MRCP, PGDME, FRCP

Special interests:

Orthogeriatrics, Geriatric, General medicine, Peri-operative medicine, Falls, Frailty

Professional Biography

Dr Dhanupriya (Dhanu) Sivapathasuntharam (Siva) is a Consultant in General Medicine and Geriatrician at King Edward VII’s Hospital. Dr Siva specialises in peri-operative care for older surgical and trauma patients.

She is consultant geriatrician and Clinical Lead for Older Peoples Services and the Trauma and Perioperative Older Peoples’ Services at the Royal London Hospital and practices privately at King Edward VII Hospital.

Dr Siva has extensive experience managing complex cases with multiple co-morbidities. This includes leading rehabilitation and working with multidisciplinary teams to provide holistic, patient-centered care. She also works closely with surgeons (both pre and post-operatively) to improve outcomes, reduce complications, and optimise recovery time. Additionally, she has experience of collaborating with surgeons in the following specialties: orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastics, vascular, ear nose and throat, max fax, urology, general surgery and trauma.

Dr Siva earned her degree from the University of Nottingham and completed additional training in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine at prestigious institutions including Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital and Kings College Hospital. In 2017 she returned to London after working as a substantive consultant at John Radcliffe Hospital.

In addition to her clinical work, she is also the lead of the undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Module at Barts and The London Medical School, where she lectures regularly on various topics related to geriatric medicine, in addition to organising the curriculum and examining. She has appeared on The Business Station podcast to explain what she does and the growing importance of Geriatricians in an ageing population.

Specialist Treatments

My Practice

Dr Siva is a Geriatrician who has specialist expertise in working with surgeons and anaesthetists in managing the older surgical and trauma patient. Together, they have demonstrated significant improvements in patient outcomes.

She has experience of collaborating with surgeons in the following specialties: orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastics, vascular, ear nose and throat, max fax, urology, general surgery and trauma.

Dr Siva has more than 10 years experience at consultant level in managing patients with complex medical conditions, who are undergoing , in some cases complex , surgeries . In addition, she has a broad experience of general geriatrics and general internal medicine.

Additional Information

COVID-19 Specific Projects / Groups

Dr Siva undertook a research project during the 1st wave of the pandemic, looking at characteristics and outcomes of patients admitted with COVID-19 to the older peoples services wards at the Royal London Hospital.

Career Highlights

Dr Siva set up and continues to lead the Trauma and Perioperative Older Peoples’ service at Royal London Hospital, Barts Health, which is an innovative and proactive service which has the aims of improving the care of emergency and elective older surgical and trauma patients.
Dr Siva is currently Clinical Lead of Older People’s services at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health
Dr Siva is Module Lead for the Geriatric Medicine Module at Barts and the London Medical School, QMUL
Dr Siva is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Barts and the London Medical School, QMUL
Regular speaker at major trauma conferences on older trauma patients; spoken at regional and national British Geriatrics Society meetings

Memberships

Co-chair of Major Trauma Specialist Interest Group British Geriatric Society

Member of the British Geriatrics Society

Training Positions

Over the past 12 years as a consultant, Dr Siva has been involved in training several registrars who have now become consultants in geriatric medicine. In particular, she has trained individuals in the peri-operative management of older patients.

Publications

D Sivapathasuntharam , G Smith, M Master, P Bates Fragility fractures of the pelvis in the older population Age and Ageing, Volume 51, Issue 3, March 2022
C Maniero, D Patel, A Pavithran, F Ng, J Prowle, D Sivapathasuntharam A retrospective cohort study of risk factors and outcomes in older patients admitted to an inner-city geriatric unit in London during first peak of COVID-19 pandemic Irish J of Med Sci. Jul 2021
L Soutter, C Uff, S Yordano, D Sivapathasuntharam The Impact of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Outcomes of Older Acute Neurosurgical Patients. Age and Ageing 50 (Supplement 2) ii8-ii13
H Jarman, R Crouch, M Baxter, C Wang, G. Peck D Sivapathasuntharam ,C Jennings, E Cole. Feasibility and accuracy of ED frailty identification in older trauma patients: a prospective multi-centre study Scand J of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (2021) 29:54
A Xu, L Chan, M Abedin, D Sivapathasuntharam Use of a proforma to improve documentation of the post-take ward round and encourage initiation of the comprehensive geriatric assessment in the care of the older people’s service Br J of Hospital Medicine (2021) 82(9)1-6
F Chamberlain, L Davis, J Kentley, D Sivapathasuntharam Developing the junior doctor handover database: improving patient safety and fluidity of staff transition. Future Hospital Journal June 2016. (Suppl2) s8-s8
B Quansah, J Stammers, D Sivapathasuntharam, P Culpan, P Bates. ‘Fragility pelvic fractures in the elderly population’ Hard Tissue. 2013 Jan 18;2(1):2.

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