Dr. Jayanthi Venkataraman — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Jayanthi Venkataraman is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity in Chennai, with more than 36 years of experience. Her profile records gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine together with surgical gastroenterology for liver transplant consultation and management.

The liver is the centre of her practice. She manages chronic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension, refractory ascites, autoimmune liver diseases, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and chronic hepatitis B and C, and also treats gallstones and Crohn's disease and performs ERCP.

Her training spans four institutions and two decades. She read MBBS at Lady Harding Medical College in Delhi between 1971 and 1975, took her MD in general medicine at Madras Medical College between 1978 and 1980, and her DM in gastroenterology at Christian Medical College, Vellore between 1982 and 1984. She was elected a Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1988 and a Fellow of the Indian College of Physicians in 1997, and held a NACC British Digestive Foundation fellowship at Leicester General Hospital in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1991. She was made Emeritus Professor at Dr. MGR Medical University in Chennai in June 2015.

Most of her career before her present post was in government and teaching hospitals. She has worked at Government General Hospital in Chennai, Government Stanley Hospital, the Government Peripheral Hospital at Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital, Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, as well as Leicester General Hospital and Gleneagles Global Health City.

She is the author of more than 16 peer-reviewed publications in national and international journals, covering hepatic encephalopathy, liver cirrhosis, gallstone disease, Crohn's disease epidemiology, variceal bleeding and liver transplant immunology.