Dr. Shobha Nair

Dr. Shoba Nair is a UK-trained internist with further Pain and Palliative Medicine qualifications. She works with chronically unwell patients and focuses on improving their quality of life.

Her area of expertise is symptom control, especially managing pain clinics and the use of different narcotic drugs and other pain medications. She listens to her patients and their families keenly. She helps them find solutions in difficult indecisive medical situations, such as continuing therapy, ICU management, ventilatory support, end-of-life care conversations, etc. She gives expert opinions as an ombudsman of the hospital ethics committee.

She is focused on academics and is instrumental in the initiation of post-graduate training (MD Palliative Medicine) at Amrita.  

• Former member of the Specialty Board for Palliative Medicine appointed by MCI (2011 - 2014) 
• Fellow, International Leadership Development initiative in Palliative Care, OhioHealth Care USA 
• Best poster prizes in national Palliative Care conferences