Dr Sandya Tirupathi

Dr Sandya Tirupathi is a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast and Belfast City Hospital.
She graduated in Medicine from India and specialised in Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology in Ireland.
She is a Fellow of the RCPCH. She is a member of national and international professional bodies and member of a few special interest groups and UK wide networks. She teaches on Paediatric Epilepsy Training (PET) courses in UK.
She has co-authored a chapter on anaesthesia for neurological disorders in Practice of Anaesthesia for Infants and Children 6th edition. She has authored and actively collaborated towards many publications.
She has varied interests including adolescent issues in Epilepsy, Epilepsy surgery, immune therapies in neurology and neuromuscular disorders. She leads the Neuromuscular services for children in Northern Ireland offering tailored therapies for children with SMA, Congenital Myasthenia and Muscular Dystrophies