Dr Ela Chakkarapani

Dr Ela Chakkarapani
M.B.,B.S., F.R.C.P.C.H., MD

Consultant Senior Lecturer in Neonatology

Area of research

Newborn neuroscience

Level D,
St Michael's Hospital, Southwell Street BS2 8EG
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 342 5711
ela.chakkarapani@
bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

Biography

Dr Ela Chakkarapani completed his MD in translational research of xenon with hypothermia in perinatal asphyxia in 2012, which has transpired to two ongoing randomised clinical trials. He successfully completed his fellowship in Neonatal neurology and neuroimaging in Vancouver, Canada in 2013. He was appointed as a consultant Senior Lecturer in Neonatology on October 2013. His research interests are in neonatal neuroscience.

Recent publications

Pregnolato, S, Chakkarapani, E, Isles, AR & Luyt, K, 2019, ‘Glutamate Transport and Preterm Brain Injury’. Frontiers in Physiology, vol 10.
Lee-Kelland, R, Jary, S, Tonks, J, Cowan, F, Thoresen, M & Chakkarapani, E, 2019, ‘School-age outcomes of children without cerebral palsy cooled for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in 2008-2010’. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition.

Dr Ela Chakkarapani