Dr. Subitha L

Dr. Subitha L
Department: 
Preventive and Social Medicine
Designation: 
Additional Professor
Medical Registration number: 
TNMC 73956
Academic Qualifications: 

MBBS, MD, DNB

Special Area of Interest: 
Non communicable diseases, Public health Nutrition, Health promotion, Physical activity
Publication: 

Publications – around 120
1. Cintron C, Narasimhan PB, Locks L, Babu S, Sinha P, Rajkumari N, Kaipilyawar V, Bhargava A, Maloomian K, Chandrasekaran P, Verma S, Joseph N, Johnson WE, Wanke C, Horsburgh CR Jr, Ellner JJ, Sarkar S, Salgame P, Lakshminarayanan S, Hochberg NS. Tuberculosis-Learning the Impact of Nutrition (TB LION): protocol for an interventional study to decrease TB risk in household contacts. BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Oct 12;21(1):1058. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06734-z. PMID: 34641820; PMCID: PMC8506078.
2. Sinha P, Lakshminarayanan SL, Cintron C, Narasimhan PB, Locks LM, Kulatilaka N, Maloomian K, Prakash Babu S, Carwile ME, Liu AF, Horsburgh CR, Acuna-Villaorduna C, Linas BP, Hochberg NS. Nutritional Supplementation Would Be Cost-Effective for Reducing Tuberculosis Incidence and Mortality in India: The Ration Optimization to Impede Tuberculosis (ROTI-TB) model. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Dec. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34910141.
3. Zhou TJ, Lakshminarayanan S, Sarkar S, Knudsen S, Horsburgh CR, Muthaiah M, Kan CK, Salgame P, Ellner JJ, Roy G, Jenkins HE, Hochberg NS. Predictors of Loss to Follow-Up among Men with Tuberculosis in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Jul 6.
4. Hochberg NS, Sarkar S, Horsburgh CR Jr, Knudsen S, Pleskunas J, Sahu S, Kubiak RW, Govindarajan S, Salgame P, Lakshminarayanan S, Sivaprakasam A, White LF, Joseph NM, Ellner JJ, Roy G. Comorbidities in pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India: Opportunities for intervention. PLoS One. 2017 Aug 23;12(8):e0183195. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183195.
5. Lakshminarayanan S, Kar SS, Gupta R, Xavier D, Bhaskar Reddy SV. Primary Healthcare-based Diabetes Registry in Puducherry: Design and Methods. Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2017 May-Jun;21(3):373-377. doi: 10.4103/ijem.IJEM_296_16.
6. Gehlawat M, Lakshminarayanan S, Kar SS. Structured Diabetes Education Program for Improving Self-care Behavior in Primary Care Settings of Puducherry: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial. Indian J Community Med. 2019 Apr-Jun;44(2):107-112. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_192_18.
7. Mathew V, Akkilagunta S, Kumar D, Lakshminarayanan S, Kar SS. Effectiveness of Pedometer-Based Walking Program to Improve Physical Activity of Workers in a Software Industry: An Experimental Study. Int J Prev Med. 2019 Apr 26;10:49. doi: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_378_17.
8. Kar SS, Subitha L, Kalaiselvi S, Archana R. Development and implementation of healthy workplace model in a selected industry of Puducherry, South India. Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2015;19(1):25-29.
9. Anjali C, Olickal JJ, Arikrishnan K, Banu AZ, Sahoo J, Kar SS, Lakshminarayanan S. Development and testing of Diabetes Complications Risk Educational Tool (DiREcT) for improving risk perception among patients with diabetes mellitus: a mixed method study. International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries. 2021 Jan 6:1-7.
10. Patel N, Lakshminarayanan S, Olickal JJ. Effectiveness of nutrition education in improving fruit and vegetable consumption among selected college students in urban Puducherry, South India. A pre-post intervention study. Int J Adolesc Med Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijamh-2020-0077

Researchgate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Subitha-Lakshminarayanan/research
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1205-5741

Presentations: 

Ongoing Research projects:
1. TB LION: Learning the Impact of Nutrition (2018) - Warren Alpert Foundation, US
2. Learning about Experience with nutritional Supplementation in Tuberculosis (LENS)- an Exploratory study (2019) - Boston University Foundation of India
3. Cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of Community Action on Lifestyle Modification (CALM) intervention for health and wellness (2021) - ICMR

Positions Held: 

Member Secretary, Institutional Ethics Committee, JIPMER

Country: 
India