Pappachan, Dr John

MA MBBChir FRCA  

Speciality

Anaesthetics and Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine    

Sub-speciality

Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine    

Training and Education

Downing College, University of Cambridge
St Thomas’s Hospital, London
Anaesthetic SpR rotation, Northern Deanery
ICBICM Senior Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine, Wessex
                                                            

Experience

Dr Pappachan has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since June 1998. 

After training in Medicine at Downing College, Cambridge, I went on to study clinical medicine at St. Thomas Hospital, London. I then went on to do specialist registrar training in anaesthesia on the Northern rotation before taking up a post as Senior Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine in Wessex.  After 5 years of being a consultant in adult intensive care medicine in Southampton I became a consultant in paediatric intensive care medicine        

Key achievements

Co applicant in successful bid for SUHT/UoS application for Biomedical Research Unit application 2008
Co-applicant in successful grant for a study investigating the biology of steroid replacement in pediatric sepsis 2007 (Meningitis Research Foundation)
Steering group member-CHIP study (HTA grant of £1 million)

Key awards and prizes

Best oral presentation PICS 2006
Medical Student prize (Anaesthetic Research Society meeting 2008)

Research

Cerebrovascular disease and stroke.
Pappachan J, Kirkham FJ. Arch Dis Child. 2008 Oct;93(10):890-8. Epub 2008 Jun 30. Review
Polymorphisms in Toll-like receptor 4 and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
Child NJ, Yang IA, Pulletz MC, de Courcy-Golder K, Andrews AL, Pappachan VJ, Holloway JW.
Biochem Soc Trans. 2003 Jun;31(Pt 3):652-3.