Dr. Chitra Sankar

About Dr. Chitra Sankar

• Dr. Chitra Sankar is a renowned pediatrician with 35 years of experience in healthcare.
• Her areas of expertise include the management of developmental disorders in children, such as cerebral palsy, learning difficulties in children, conditions on the autism spectrum, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• She specializes in evaluating young children's development, particularly age groups of  0 to 3 years.
• She also develops early intervention programs for developmental disorders in children.
• She specializes in the neurodevelopmental follow-up of preterm infants.
• Her educational qualifications include an MBBS from Madras Medical College, Chennai, in 1989 and a Diploma in child health (DCH) from the Royal College of Physicians, London, in 1996.
• She is a member of the Royal College of Pediatrics, the Childhood Disability Group, the Growth and Development Chapter, the Bangalore Pediatric Society, and the Indian Academy of Pediatrics.