Professional profile

Dr Krishnan Balasubramanian provides a comprehensive and holistic paediatric consultation including investigations, treatment, advice and ongoing care for medical and developmental problems in infants, children and adolescents.

He has been working with children since qualifying as a doctor in 1993. He completed his higher specialist training at Evelina Children's Hospital, London and other teaching hospitals in south east London. After gaining entry into the GMC’s specialist register in 2008, he joined as a Consultant Paediatrician at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. 

He has a special interest in paediatric cardiology and nephrology, working closely with cardiologists at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and nephrologists at the Evelina Children's Hospital in London.

He regularly teaches medical students from King’s College London and St George’s University London, and is a visiting lecturer at London South Bank University. 

Dr Balasubramanian provides paediatric simulation and resuscitation training for medical students and junior doctors and is a qualified instructor for the European Paediatric Life Support course. As a father, he is able to view children’s problems from the parents’ as well as the children’s perspectives.

He is a founding member of UK-registered charity PUNCH (Physicians United For Child Health), which aims to relieve sickness and to rehabilitate sick children. The charity provide and maintain medical equipment and offer training to medical, nursing and paramedic staff. 

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Krishnan Balasubramanian include:

Paediatrics

  • Asthma
  • Blood disorder test
  • Blood pressure test
  • Diabetes treatment
  • Dizziness
  • Electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • Eczema and dermatitis
  • ECG monitoring or event recorder - 24/48 hour
  • Hormone test
  • Liver and kidney test
  • Thyroid test
  • Ultrasound scan

 

Other treatments

  • EEG (epilepsy)
  • Holter monitoring
  • Lung function tests (spirometry)
  • Paediatric blood tests including allergies
  • Paediatric ECG
  • Paediatric echocardiogram
  • Scans

Qualifications and professional memberships

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Madras, India, 1993
  • Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1999
  • Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health, London, 2008

 

Professional memberships

  • General Medical Council (GMC)
  • Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Executive Committee member, British Medical Association
  • Medical Protection Society

 

Professional leadership

  • Clinical Governance Lead for Paediatrics at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
  • Lead for Paediatric Simulation
  • Founding Trustee and Executive Committee Member, Physicians United for Child Health

 

Research and publications

Paediatric Nephrology- Nephrotic syndrome (PREDNOS)

 

Current NHS posts

Consultant Paediatrician, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.