Srinivasan Rangarajan

Dr. Srinivasan Rangarajan is a Professor of Pathology and has been teaching at MUA, Nevis, since May 2007. He has been the Chair of the pathology and physiology division since 2009.

He is involved in teaching cellular pathology, molecular pathology, and systemic pathology with a special interest in nephropathology, cardiovascular pathology, oncopathology, and transplant pathology. He is also actively involved in curriculum planning, implementation, and evaluation, apart from faculty, and student mentoring.

Dr. Srinivasan Rangarajan obtained his medical degree (MBBS) from Karnatak Medical College and completed his residency (MD) from St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore, in 1999.

He served as a lecturer at St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore, for a year and as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal for seven years before joining MUA. He has been teaching medical students for over 24 years and is very passionate about medical education. His teaching style includes lecture-style teaching, an integrated systems approach, hybrid teaching, and problem-based teaching. Alongside medical students, Dr. Rangarajan has also taught residents, dental and allied health graduates, and postgraduate students as well as laboratory technicians, and was actively involved in diagnostic work in anatomic pathology, cytology, and hematology.

Dr. Rangarajan was in charge of blood banking at Kasturba Medical College Manipal for over six months. His special diagnostic interest was in nephropathology and transplant pathology and received training in HLA typing and cross-matching at CMC Vellore. He also established the HLA laboratory facility at Kasturba Medical College Hospital and was an active member of the team that was involved in the development implementation and quality control of the distance education Medical Laboratory graduate program by Manipal University.

He has received many awards in medical education and has published many scientific papers. He is actively involved in mentoring students at MUA in research projects as a part of the RLRA course. With a focus on conceptual and active learning, he tries to create and sustain a dynamic environment that fosters development opportunities for his students and motivates lifelong learning.

Qualifications

• MBBS, Karnataka Medical College, India
• MD (Residency in Pathology), St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru India

• Medical Education
• Anatomic pathology
• Nephropathology
• Transplant pathology
• Hematology 
• Oncopathology

• Multiple Teaching excellence awards at MUA, Nevis from 2007 – 2011.
• Guided and Co-authored a scientific paper entitled ‘Home away from home’ – Unusual presentations of cutaneous lymphomas – a report of 2 cases that was awarded 3rd best presentation at the 33rd Annual conference of Karnataka chapter of Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists (KCIAPM – 2005.

• Dr.Srinivasan. R and Dr Geetha Krishnanad. Cytological Diagnosis of Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting As An Orbital Mass: A Case Report. Acta Cytologica 2007; 51( 1) : 83-86
• Dr.Srinivasan.R, Dr. Sridharan K, Dr. Geetha Krishnanad et.al. Retroperitoneal Ganglioneuroma with Lymph node metastasis. Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology 2007; 50(1):32-35
• R. Srinivasan, Nachiketa Mohapatra1, Saurabh Malhotra1, Sharath Kumar J Rao Aggressive angiomyxoma presenting as a vulval polyp. Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology Vol 44 ( No.2), 2007:87-89
• Srinivasan R, Mutteswaraiah Y, Bhat Sudha S, et.al.Primary cutaneous diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma Of the upper limb. Indian Journal of Dermatology 2006: 51(2): 125-127. 1.
• Dr.Srinivasan.R, Dr. Ranjini K, Dr. Vadhiraja B.M. Primary papillary carcinoma of the thyroglossal duct cyst. Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology 2005:48(2):228-230. BM Vadiraja, R Srinivasan, DJ Fernandes et al. Bronchial associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma with bronchiectasis in a pre-treated tuberculosis patient. Ind J Radiol Imag 2005:15:2: 225-227. 2.
• Dr. Srinivasan. R., Karuna Ramesh Kumar, Mohan L.N. PNET Presenting with Secondary Amenorrhoea. Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology 2002 (1): 25-27. 3.
• Srinivasan R, Usha Kini, M.K.Babu, et.al. Malignant pheochromocytoma with cutaneous metastasis presenting with hemolytic anemia and pyrexia of unknown origin. Journal of Association of Physicians of India (JAPI) 2002; 80:731-33. 4.
• Srinivasan. R, K Ramesh Kumar; Pathological diagnosis – Calcifying Aponeurotic fibroma. Journal of Applied Medicine 1998; 24 (3):231.

• Medical education – curriculum development and evaluation; Nephropathology and Oncopathology
• Interested in furthering medical education research to foster professional values in medical students.

• Invited lecture “Hypertension: An Integrated Approach to Slay the Sleeping Dragon” at the 1st National Symposium on ‘Benefits of Yoga and Holistic Medicine along with Modern Therapy: An Integrated Approach’. At St. Lucia – Feb 15-16 2020.
• Presented research papers at several Pathology, cytology, and hematology conferences conducted by the Indian Association of Pathology and Microbiology, KCIAPM, and Indian Academy of Cytologists and attended workshops conducted by them- 1997-2007
• Workshops: Leadership development workshop, Manipal – 2006; several Medical education workshops at MUA, Nevis, 2007 -2020 and at Manipal University – 2001-2004;
• International Conference on Public Mental Health and Neurosciences – 2014, 2015