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Shree Vishna Rasiah

BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2598 (Published 30 June 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m2598
  1. Raman Lakshman,
  2. Anuja Natarajan,
  3. Anju Singh,
  4. Andrew Ewer

Shree Vishna Rasiah (known as Vish to friends, family, and colleagues) was a well respected and much loved consultant neonatologist at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vish spoke Tamil, Mandarin, and Malay in addition to English. After completing his undergraduate medicine in Adelaide, he came to south Yorkshire, training in Bradford and Sheffield before joining Professor Andrew Ewer’s research group in Birmingham. He joined the Birmingham Women’s Hospital (BWH) as consultant neonatologist in 2007. He contributed to neonatal care at local, national, and international levels. He encouraged and mentored innumerable junior doctors and medical students, supporting original …

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