Dr Ramachandran Thiruvengadam

Assistant Professor Biochemistry,Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences

Include environmental health and fetal Infantile and childhood growth

Ram (b. 1983), is a resident of Pondicherry, India. He’s a pediatrician-scientist, and researches in the domain of maternal-child health. He graduated from Madras Medical College, Chennai and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He’s currently on the faculty at Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India, and an Investigator in the Interdisciplinary Group for Advanced Research on Birth Outcomes – DBT India Initiative (GARBH-Ini). His specific interest is in perinatal epidemiology to identify causal risk factors of preterm birth and fetal growth restriction, to be able to design effective interventions to prevent them. Trained as a translational researcher, he works extensively on the development and validation of clinical prediction models for birth outcomes. He has extensive experience in scientific and technical writing, and regularly publishes scholarly articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.