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Dr Ajith Kumar Sivasankaran
Chief Consultant at the Department of Hyperbaric Medicine and Diabetic FootCare
SP Fort Hospital, Trivandrum
drajithk@gmail.com

Biographical Information

Dr Ajith Kumar Sivasankaran is the Chief Consultant at the Department of Hyperbaric Medicine and Diabetic Foot Care, SP Fort Hospital, Trivandrum and serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine at SUT Academy of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum.

After undergraduate studies at Trivandrum Medical College, I obtained a postgraduate degree from the Indian Air Force Institute, Bangalore. In 2014, I then went on to start the first hyperbaric oxygen therapy centre in Kerala at SP Fort hospital, focussing mainly on the treatment of non-healing foot ulcers. I am one of the two DGCA licenced Class 1 and 2 medical examiners for commercial pilot licence aspirants in Kerala. I am the founder of Kairali Diabetes Research and Care, an organization focused on academic and research activities related with diabetes and also providing diabetes care and education to public.

I became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2013 and a Fellow in 2020. I am an examiner for the MRCP PACES examination. During 2015-2021, I served as a senate member of Kerala University of Health Sciences and functioned in various academic and administrative councils. I am an office bearer for various professional organisations like IMA (Branch Vice-President, state convener for various committees), RSSDI (joint secretary, Kerala), Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (Executive committee member) and Physician club of Trivandrum (secretary) and is an active member of ADA. I acted as organising secretary and committee member for various international and national conferences. I am also engaged in undergraduate & postgraduate teaching at a medical school.