Dr Roshan brings over 2 years of experience in the field of Endocrinology and over 7 years experience as an Internal Medicine Specialist. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Medicine from Government Medical College, Kottayam and subsequently completed her Master’s degree in Internal Medicine from JSS Medical College, Mysore – India. She further pursued her Doctorate in Medicine For Endocrinology from Madurai Medical College, affiliated to The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University in the year 2022.
She has worked in the mucormycosis ward in Madurai Medical College during the last COVID outbreak and has expertise in managing poorly controlled diabetes in these patients, having co-authored a paper on this topic. She has also received a short training in CMC Vellore as part of her DM course.
Specialist Expertise:
Evaluation and management of:
- Thyroid disorders including hypothyroidism, thyroiditis and thyrotoxicosis of various aetiologies, and thyroid cancer particularly with respect to the pre- and postoperative management of differentiated thyroid carcinomas
- Hypoparathyroidism, Hyperparathyroidism and other disorders of calcium and vitamin D including rickets.
- Diabetes Mellitus- Type 2 DM, GDM and pancreatic diabetes as well as young diabetes clinic including type 1, LADA, MODY, neonatal diabetes,etc and complications of diabetes
- Obesity and other metabolic disorders
- Endocrine causes of hypertension like phaeochromocytoma, primary hyperaldosteronism etc
- Adrenal insufficiency and Addison’s crisis
- Pituitary disorders including
- functioning tumours like
- Prolactinomas
- Acromegaly- preoperative and postoperative care, bridging medical therapy, management of recurrences/ complications like uncontrolled hyperglycemia
- Cushing’s disease- pre and postoperative care, medical management
- pituitary hormone deficiency both congenital and acquired such as growth hormone deficiency, combined pituitary hormone deficiency due to genetic causes or post trauma/ snake bite/ Sheehan’s syndrome
- Disorders of puberty- delayed puberty and precocious puberty
- Hypogonadism in males and females
- PCOS, mimics of PCOS like NCCAH/ virilising tumours and infertility in Collaboration with the gynaecologist
- DSD (Disorders of Sex Development)- to be suspected in children and young adults with ambiguous genitalia, virilisation or poor development of secondary sexual characters, hypokalemia and other features of hormonal abnormalities
Achievements and Career Highlights:
- Best outgoing student alumni Gold Medal award of Madurai Medical College in DM Endocrinology for the year 2022
- Based on her DM thesis, the paper “A randomized controlled trial comparing myoinositol with metformin versus metformin monotherapy in polycystic ovary syndrome” was published in ther internationally acclaimed Clinical Endocrinology Journal in Aug 2023 for which she was the first author
Countries with Medical Licensure: India, UAE
Total years of experience: 7 years (as IM), 2 years (Endocrinology)
Languages spoken: English, Malayalam ,Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Urdu
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