Rajini Sarvananthan Park City Medical Centre, Baby and Beyond Clinic

Dr. Rajini Sarvananthan is a Consultant Developmental Paediatrician at ParkCity Medical Centre and Baby and Beyond Child Specialist Clinic and Visiting Consultant at University Malaya Medical Centre. Dr. Rajini graduated from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom in 1993. She subsequently trained in Paediatrics in 1994. Having obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in the area of Paediatrics in 1996, she further sub-specialized in the area of Neuro Disability/Developmental Paediatrics in the United Kingdom. During this time, she also pursued her Masters in Medical Science in Child Health. Dr. Rajini returned to Malaysia in the year 2003 where she joined Universiti Kebangsasan Malaysia (UKM) as a Lecturer in Paediatrics. Together with a team of Developmental Paediatrics, Clinical Psychologists and other Allied Health Professionals, she was involved in starting the Child Development Centre at UKM Medical Centre, the first such Centre in Malaysia during the time. She subsequently joined SunMed to work together with the team of allied health professionals already established here to provide a holistic service for children with developmental disabilities and in the SunMed S.H.I.N.E. Program, an Early Intervention Program for children from 0 to 3 years old with developmental disabilities. She moved on to Park City Medical Centre, which has plans to establish Child Development services in the near future. Dr. Rajini has a particular interest in preschool children with developmental disabilities. She has been involved in research in the outcome of extremely/very low birth weight babies and neonates with persistent pulmonary hypertension, use of developmental screening tools (comparing parental report vs screening administered by a paediatrician) in the local setting and children with other sensory impairment. Dr. Rajini represents the subspecialty of Developmental Paediatrics as a co-opted Member of the Specialty Sub-Committee of Paediatrics, National Specialists Register in Malaysia. She was previously a Committee Member of the Chapter of Child Neurology and Developmental Paediatrics, under the umbrella of the Malaysian Society of Neurosciences and remains active in the Chapter now.

Day 2, 19 Sept 2023

Time Session
11:55
12:55
On the Ground - Medical Challenges & Current Strategies
Dr Rajini Sarvananthan Speaker Consultant Developmental PaediatricianPark City Medical Centre, Baby and Beyond Clinic
Ms Sharifah Tahir Speaker Care partner and FounderUMI (Uniquely Me Initiative)
Prof Dr Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman Speaker Professor of Geriatric MedicineFaculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya
Dr Ariffin Marzuki Mokhtar Moderator