Dr. Rishab Bharadwaj — Consultant Paediatric Haematologist and Oncologist in Chennai

Dr. Rishab Bharadwaj is a Consultant Paediatric Haematologist and Oncologist at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 13 years of experience. He is listed in pediatric hematology, hematology and medical oncology, and his qualifications are MBBS and MD.

His procedures are pediatric bone marrow transplant, pediatric leukemia, thalassemia, sickle cell disease and aplastic anemia treatment, which together cover both the malignant and the non-malignant reasons a child is sent to a haematologist.

His training moved between three states and then to London. He read MBBS at Govt. Stanley Medical College in Chennai in 2004 and took MD in paediatrics at Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College and V.S. General Hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 2017. His post-doctoral fellowship in paediatric haematology-oncology was completed at Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital in Chennai in 2019, and he then took specialized training at St. Mary's Hospital in London, which his record describes as a pioneer centre for haploidentical transplantation for haematological disorders.

That last detail is the most consequential one on his profile. Haploidentical transplantation uses a half-matched family donor, usually a parent, and it is what allows a child with no fully matched sibling or registry donor to be transplanted at all. In India, where registry matching is harder to achieve, training at a centre that helped develop the technique carries direct practical weight.

He practises at MGM Healthcare and is a member of SIOP, EBMT, ISBMT and the paediatric haematology and oncology subchapter of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics.