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

Tonks, J, Cloke, G, Lee-Kelland, R, Jary, S, Thoresen, M, Cowan, FM & Chakkarapani, E, 2019, ‘Attention and visuo-spatial function in children without cerebral palsy who were cooled for neonatal encephalopathy: a case-control study’. Brain Injury, vol 33., pp. 894-898
Cawley, P & Chakkarapani, E, 2019, ‘Fifteen-minute consultation: Therapeutic hypothermia for infants with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy—translating jargon, prognosis and uncertainty for parents’. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition.

Dr Ela Chakkarapani