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

Cizmeci, MN, Lequin, M, Lichtenbelt, KD, Chitayat, D, Kannu, P, James, AG, Groenendaal, F, Chakkarapani, E, Blaser, S & Vries, LSd, 2018, ‘Characteristic MR Imaging Findings of the Neonatal Brain in RASopathies’. American Journal of Neuroradiology, vol 39., pp. 1146-1152
Geary, G, Jary, S, Tonks, J, Lee-Kelland, R, Thai, J, Brooks, J, Thoresen, M, Cowan, F & Chakkarapani, E, 2018, ‘Corpus callosal associations with cognitive and motor abilities in school-age children cooled for neonatal encephalopathy’.

Dr Ela Chakkarapani