Dr Dhanupriya Sivapathasuntharam Consultant Profile
Dr Sivapathasuntharam is a Consultant Geriatrician and Physician and has over 13 years’ experience in her specialism.She has extensive experience in managing complex patients with multiple comorbidities including dementia, falls and osteoporosis, in both inpatient and outpatient settings, providing a holistic and patient-centred approach. This includes leading on rehabilitation and working with a multidisciplinary team.Dr Sivapathasuntharam graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1999. After obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, she undertook registrar training in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine (South East Thames) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust.She is a Consultant Geriatrician, Clinical Lead of Older Peoples Services, and Trauma and Perioperative Older Person’s Services at the Royal London Hospital NHS Trust. She is also the Lead of the Undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Module at NHS Trust Barts and the London Medical School. This involves organising the curriculum as well as lecturing and examining regularly.Dr Sivapathasuntharam is experienced in working jointly with surgeons in the perioperative period (both pre and post-operatively), providing medical input to these patients with demonstrable improvements in mortality rates (in hip fracture patients); and reductions in postoperative medical complications. She has experience of collaborating with surgeons in the following specialities: orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastics, vascular, ear nose and throat, urology, general surgery and trauma.She has several publications and lectures regularly on geriatrics and trauma and perioperative care of older patients.
Clinical interests
- Post-operative rehabilitation.
- Peri-operative medicine
- Falls
- Osteoporosis
- Frailty
- Geriatrics