Dr. Dhaarani J — Consultant Paediatric Hemato-Oncologist in Chennai

Dr. Dhaarani J is a Consultant Paediatric Hemato-Oncologist at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 13 years of experience. She is listed in pediatric hematology and hematology, and her qualifications are MBBS, MD, FNB and an IAP fellowship in paediatric hemato-oncology.

Her listed work covers both halves of the field. Pediatric leukemia and pediatric bone marrow transplant are the cancer side; thalassemia, sickle cell disease and aplastic anemia treatment are the inherited and acquired disorders of the blood that children live with long term. In practice the two overlap, because transplant is the route by which a child with thalassemia or aplastic anemia can stop being a patient altogether.

She read MBBS at Govt. Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai under The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University in 2010, then took MD in paediatrics at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research in Chandigarh in 2016. In 2018 she completed two qualifications in the same subspecialty: FNB in paediatric hemato-oncology from the National Board of Examinations in New Delhi, and an IAP fellowship from the paediatric hemato-oncology chapter of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics.

Her affiliations trace that path in reverse: Dr. Rela Institute & Medical Centre in Chennai currently, and before it SRIHER and Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, PGIMER in Chandigarh and Govt. Kilpauk Medical College.

She was organising secretary of PHOCON 2023, the national conference for paediatric hemato-oncology, and has over 70 published articles, case reports and clinical studies in peer-reviewed journals.