Where did I start and where am I led to..in my professional journey.

Looking back at my professional life  ....I create this profile.
However it is definitely incomplete as it does not lists the beautiful souls I have met and exchanged so much of joy in working with them.It does not lists my colleagues, hospital staff, my team members, mentors, teachers and family and extended families of patients who have been my strength.That particular list of my support pillars is very exhaustive and I can only say that I am here because of them.

Profile: Dr Sheelu Srinivas, M.S.ENT, DORL (Mumbai), DLO (RCS, London)

Dr. Sheelu Srinivas is an ENT Surgeon with over 17 years of experience. She studied ENT at K.E.M. Medical College, Mumbai and underwent further training in Otolaryngology in the U.K. She pursued her further surgical training in Otology and Pediatric ENT in France, Turkey and Switzerland. Her interest in deafness and communication disorders in children has led her to successfully complete hands on training and certificate courses on deaf education as well as early intervention in children with Autism and other communication disorders.

Dr. Sheelu Srinivas was the Director and Coordinator - ENT Department at Fortis Hospitals, Bannerghetta Road for a decade where she developed tertiary ENT unit along with Cochlear Implant and Pediatric Airway Programs. She also worked as Honorary Consultant at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health and Spastics Society of Karnataka. She runs her own ENT Diagnostic Center along with Pediatric hearing and Speech Rehabilitation Unit.

Her surgical expertise includes Otology, Cochlear Implantation, Endoscopic Sinus Surgery and Pediatric ENT Surgeries. She is known for her thorough clinical diagnosis and a holistic approach towards patients including the little ones.

Dr. Sheelu is a regular speaker and presenter at various national and international conferences including WHO Symposium on deafness at IFOS Seoul.

She has been involved in starting the newborn hearing screening and deafness habilitation programs in private and public sectors. She ran the first pilot project of Universal Hearing Screening in babies at K.C. General Hospital, Bangalore and went on to introduce Anganwadi projects for screening hearing and speech disorders in the young.

She has been advisor to National Program for Prevention and Control of Deafness, Karnataka and Member of State Cochlear Implant Committee. Her comprehensive work in this field from diagnosis to habilitation led her team to be the finalists of BMJ South Asia Awards 2015 in Healthcare Advocacy category. She is the member of Association of Otolaryngologists of India, Indian Association of Pediatric Otolaryngologists, Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Allergy Chapter and Interamerican Association of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology.