Dr Dhanupriya Sivapathasuntharam

Dr Sivapathasuntharam specialises in the peri-operative management of the older surgical and trauma patients. She is a Consultant Geriatrician at the Royal London Hospital and is also Head of the Trauma and Perioperative Older Person’s Services there. She has extensive experience of managing complex patients with multiple co-morbidities including dementia, falls and osteoporosis, in both and inpatient and outpatient setting, providing a holistic and patient centred approach. This includes leading on rehabilitation and working with the multidisciplinary team. Dr Sivapathasuntharam is experienced in working jointly with surgeons in the perioperative period (both pre and post-operatively) providing medical input to these patients with demonstrable improvements in mortality rates (in hip fracture patients) and reductions in post-operative medical complications. She has experience of collaborating with surgeons in the following specialities: orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastics, vascular, ear nose and throat, urology, general surgery and trauma. She is the Lead of the Undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Module at Barts and the London Medical School. This involves organising the curriculum as well as lecturing and examining regularly.

Orthogeriatrics Perioperative medicine Falls and bone health