Dr. Santhanam Lakshminarayanan is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at UConn Health and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology. Dr. Lakshminarayan is a graduate of The Armed Forces Medical College in Pune, India, and earned his M.B.B.S. from the University of Poona, India. He completed his residency and rheumatology fellowship training at the UConn School of Medicine. He joined the Rheumatology faculty in 2002. He is the director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program. He is responsible for training two to four fellows per year and for overseeing four training sites: UConn Health, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, VA Medical Center in Newington, and Connecticut Children's. He is also director of the Rheumatology Fellow Journal Club and involved in weekly didactic review at rheumatology patient management rounds and rheumatology teaching rounds. He is on the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) subcommittee for medical student and resident education and ACR New England OSCE program development for rheumatology fellows. Dr. Lakshminarayanan's areas of expertise are in Lyme disease, gout, and systemic rheumatic disease. He has published articles on systemic lupus erythematous. Dr. Lakshminarayanan conducts clinical trials on scleroderma, Raynaud's phenomenon, systemic lupus erythematosus, and inflammatory arthritis.

Education

Degree	Institution	Major
MD	Armed Forces Medical College	Medicine
MBBS	University of Pune	Medicine

Post-Graduate Training

Training	Institution	Specialty
Internship	Edgware General Hospital	Internal Medicine
Internship	Government General Hospital
Residency	University of Madurai, Rajaji Hospital	Internal Medicine
Senior House Officer	Royal Preston Hospital	Senior House Officer in Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology and Intensive Care Medicine
Residency	University of Connecticut School of Medicine	Internal Medicine
Fellowship	University of Connecticut School of Medicine	Rheumatology
Senior Registrar	Royal Liverpool University Hospital	Senior Registrar in Rheumatology

Awards

Name of Award/Honor	Awarding Organization
Major General N.D.P. Karani Trophy for Academic Achievement in Medical School
Second Best All Round Student Graduating Class

Dr. Lakshminarayanan is the program director for the Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program. He teaches fellows, residents, and students in an academic and clinical setting.

Name & Description	Category	Role	Type	Scope	Start Year	End Year
American College of Rheumatology Medical Student and Resident Education	Education Committee	sub committee	External	National	2009
American College of Rheumatology	Education Committee	OSCE Program Development for Rheumatology Fellows	External	National	2009
BMJ – Evaluation of Clubbing	Editorial Board	Reviewer	External	International	2009
American College of Rheumatology	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National	1999
American College of Rheumatology New England OSCE Program Develpment for Rheumatology Fellows	Other	member	External	National

Scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematous, and use of P32 radioactive synovectomy in refractory inflammatory monoarthritis

Journal Articles

Abstracts

Case Reports

Conference Papers

Websites

Title or Abstract	Type	Sponsor/Event	Date/Year	Location
Newer Treatments in Rheumatology With a Hope and a Prayer	Talk	Infectious Diseases Intercity Grand Rounds	2011	UCHC
Newer Treatments in Rheumatology	Talk	UCHC Grand Rounds	2010	UCHC
SLE behind the times in treatment	Talk	12th Annual Eastern Regional Conference Women in Government	2010	Newport, RI
Mihordin C, Parke A, Valentin A, Lakshminarayanan S. Long-Term Outcome of Children Born to Mothers with Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome.	Poster	9th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	2010	Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
Introduction to Rheumatologic Disease How to Approach the Patient with Musculoskeletal Complaints How to Distinguish Inflammatory from Non-inflammatory Illnesses	Talk	UCHC Grand Rounds	2009	UCHC
Common Illnesses in Rheumatology Approach to a patient with mono and poly arthritis	Talk	UCHC Grand Rounds	2009	UCHC
Understanding, Assessing and Treating Raynaud’s Phenomenon	Talk	Scleroderma Educational Forum	2009
Overine V, DeMello D, Mihordin C , Lakshminarayanan S. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.	Poster	National ACP Conference, CT Chapter	2009	Philadelphia, PA
Mihordin C, Traverse W, Lakshminarayanan S, Parke A. Long term follow-up of Women with anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome.	Poster	6th International Congress on Autoimmunity	2008	Porto, Portugal
What’s New in Rheumatology?	Talk	UCHC Grand Rounds	2007	UCHC
SLE Diagnosis and Management	Talk	AORN Conference	2007	Hospital of Central Connecticut
Rheumatoid Arthritis	Talk	Trinitas Hospital	2007	Trinitas Hospital, NJ
Fibromyalgia	Talk		2005	Middlesex Hospital
Evaluation of Lab Abnormalities in Rheumatology	Talk	Manchester Memorial Hospital	2004	Manchester Memorial Hospital
Lyme Disease	Talk	UCHC Grand Rounds	2003	UCHC
Lack of Osteoporosis in SLE patients on long term corticosteroid therapy.	Talk	5th International Conference on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	1998	Cancun Mexico