Dr. Ramya Shri C — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Ramya Shri C is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 10 years of experience. Her record lists paediatric cardiac work alongside cardiology, and her qualifications are MBBS, MD and DM.

Her procedures cover both the diagnosis and the catheter treatment of congenital heart disease in children. Pediatric echocardiography is how a defect is found and measured. ASD, VSD and PDA device closure seal the three commonest holes in a child's heart through a catheter rather than an opened chest, so recovery is counted in days. TOF repair surgery and the Glenn and Fontan procedures cover the more complex defects, the last two being the staged approach used when a child has only one functional ventricle.

Her training was taken entirely at one institution. She read MBBS, took MD in paediatrics and then DM in cardiology, all at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute in Chennai. That sequence is worth noting: paediatrics first, cardiology second, which is the route that produces a cardiologist who is a paediatrician before anything else. She practises at MGM Healthcare.

She is a member of four bodies that span both halves of her work: the Indian Academy of Paediatrics, the Cardiological Society of India, the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India and the Indian Medical Association. For an international family, the practical value of that combination is that a child with a heart defect is assessed as a growing child rather than as a small adult with a cardiac problem.