Dr. Mallika Tiruvadanan's Profile

Palliative Care expert
Dr. Mallika Tiruvadanan, a Palliative Care expert who heads Lakshmi Pain and Palliative Care Clinic, a charitable trust that combines science with compassion to relieve physical symptoms and offer support to patients suffering from prolonged or life-limiting illnesses. An anesthetist who was later drawn to Palliative Care on seeing the distress of patients and their families, Dr. Mallika specialized in this field at the Edith Cowan University, Australia and for the last ten years has been caring for the sick and spearheading the need to start more palliative care centers to care for the suffering millions in India.