Professor Sarath Ranganathan, an expert in respiratory medicine and an internationally recognised clinician scientist, Head of the Melbourne Medical School at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Ranganathan has held several leadership positions in the faculty to date including Stevenson Chair in Paediatrics and Head of the Department of Paediatrics, a large department within the Melbourne Medical School.
He is a well-known member of the faculty, where he has also served as Academic Director, Clinical Education, Strategy and Risk.
Professor Ranganathan has longstanding connections at the Royal Children’s Hospital where he has been a consultant respiratory physician since 2004 and was Director of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine between 2012-2020.
As a member of the Children’s Campus Council Professor Ranganathan provided leadership on a number of strategic developments, including the establishment of the Centre for Health Analytics, and the Melbourne Children’s Disability Research Hub.
He is Chair of the Melbourne Children’s Campus Education Committee and established the Paediatric Academy to develop and grow an inter-professional community across the Children’s Campus.
As co-Chair of the Melbourne Children’s Clinical Research Incubator Sarath is also committed to fostering and nurturing the academic careers of clinician scientists.
An accomplished scholar, Professor Ranganathan has led his own research group since 2010 as Group Head of Respiratory Research in the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
His research has directly led to a paradigm shift in how lung disease is viewed in cystic fibrosis that has impacted worldwide practice.