Dr Prasanna Sankaran
Consultant Respiratory Physician
MBBS, MRCP (Respiratory Medicine), MD (Research), FRCP (London)
Specialises in
- Asthma
- Sleep disorders
- COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- Lung disease
I am a Consultant Respiratory Physician based in Norwich with a private practice at Spire Norwich Hospital. My NHS practice is at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. I am a specialist in General Respiratory Medicine and Sleep Medicine with over seven years of experience.
Areas of expertise within chest medicine and respiratory pathology include asthma, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), obstructive sleep apnoea, lung disease, sleep disorders, neuromuscular diseases related ventilatory failure including motor neurone disease and muscular dystrophy.
I trained in the East of England higher specialist training programme from 2008 until 2015 including Papworth Hospital in Cambridge with specialist training in sleep disorders and home ventilation. This period included three years of research which resulted in a doctoral thesis titled "Assessments of inflammation in airways disease" and an award of Doctor of Medicine, MD from University of East Anglia in 2015.
I have a vested interest in medical education and provide both undergraduate and post graduate training of doctors to prepare physicians of the future. I am an examiner for the MRCP clinical exam for Royal College of Physicians of London and am the lead of Respiratory Medicine education for Norwich Medical School. I am also one of the Training Programme Directors of Internal Medicine Training for Health Education East of England, overseeing early physician training for several hospitals in the region.
I am the current clinical lead for the sleep medicine and ventilatory support team at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals.
Please click on the following link to read an example of my research: Sankaran P, Kamath AV, Tariq SM, Ruffell H, Smith AC, Prentice P, Subramanian DN, Musonda P, Myint PK. Are shock index and adjusted shock index useful in predicting mortality and length of stay in community-acquired pneumonia?. European Journal of Internal Medicine. 2011 Jun 1;22(3):282-5.
Media Coverage: Stormy summer could spark huge rise in deadly 'thunderstorm asthma' cases : Media interview in BBC
Treatment information
Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Prasanna Sankaran at Spire include:
Respiratory medicine
Other treatments
- Asthma
- Obstructive sleep apnoea and therapy with CPAP devices
- Sleep disordered breathing
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Additional information
Clinical interests
Chest medicine
Lung disease
Respiratory medicine
Respiratory pathology
Sleep disorders
Special clinical interests: Asthma, COPD, neuromuscular diseases related ventilatory failure including motor neurone disease, muscular dystrophy.
Qualification and professional memberships
MD / University of East Anglia / 2015
Doctor of Research
Professional memberships
General Medical Council
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians London
Professional leadership
Head of Respiratory Module Norwich Medical School
Deputy Director of Medical Education, NNUH
Training Programme Director (Joint) Internal Medicine Training, Health Education East of England
Research and publications
Articles
Media Coverage
Stormy summer could spark huge rise in deadly 'thunderstorm asthma' cases : Media interview in BBC
May 2012
Current NHS posts
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Hon Senior Lecturer Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia
Personal profile
I enjoy playing music in my spare time and regularly play Indian percussion and keyboards in concerts. I am also director of a local music band in East Anglia.
Contact information
| Telephone | 01603 255 574 |
| Private secretary | Amanda Porter |
| Private secretary telephone | 07939 089847 |
| Private secretary email | amandaporter23@btinternet.com |