Suchitra Ranjit

Suchitra was trained in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care from Melbourne and Sydney and was the earliest trained Intensivists to set up several pediatric ICUs in Chennai, South India. She was among the founder members of the group that initiated formal Pediatric Intensive training courses in India. She was the former Chairperson of the Pediatric Intensive Care Chapter of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics and former Vice-Chairperson of the College of Pediatric Critical Care, India.

Suchitra is currently the Chief of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai, which is a leading tertiary referral centre for high-risk pediatric trauma and cardiac surgery.

She is an international task-force member of the Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guideline and Definitions Committee and is currently the Asian representative of the Board of Directors of WFPICCS.

Her research interests and publications are related to improving outcomes from septic shock and dengue shock. She has several publications in international and Indian journals specifically pertaining to resource-appropriate modifications of international sepsis treatment guidelines.