Sarath Ranganathan MBChB, MRCP, FRCPCH, FRACP, PhD

Professor Sarath Ranganathan is an internationally renowned clinician-scientist and expert in respiratory medicine, specialising in detecting and monitoring lung disease in young patients. Before Sarath’s role as Head of the Melbourne Medical School, he held several leadership positions in the Faculty including Stevenson Chair in Paediatrics, Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Academic Director in Clinical Education, Strategy and Risk.

Sarath is a consultant respiratory physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital and served as Director of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine between 2012 and 2020. He is also a Group Leader at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, a Principal Investigator of the Australian Respiratory Early Surveillance Team for Cystic Fibrosis (AREST-CF), and holds several international leadership roles within paediatric respiratory medicine.