Kavitha Gunasuntharam

Biography

Meet Dr Kavitha Gunasuntharam

Our team asked the children and young people we care for what they would most like to know about us.

These were Dr Gunasuntharam's answers:

What is your favourite children's book?
The Witches by Roald Dahl.

What is your favourite way to keep fit?
Dancing!

What's your best joke?
Why is the ocean friendly?
Because it waves!

About Dr Gunasuntharam

Dr Kavitha Gunasuntharam has been a Consultant Paediatrician with Evelina London Community Child Health, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, since 2017. She leads in Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics and Joint Clinical Genetics, with specialist interests in autism, childhood developmental disorders, neurodisability, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), and Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) surveillance clinics.

Dr Gunasuntharam completed her specialist paediatric training through Health Education England across London and Kent, Surrey and Sussex. She qualified as a doctor in 2004 from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).

She is passionate about supporting doctors pursuing alternative routes to becoming paediatricians and provides guidance through the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR).

She is also committed to mainstreaming genomic medicine into everyday clinical care for children, helping to ensure that advances in genetics are translated into timely diagnosis, personalised care, and improved outcomes for children and their families.

Dr Gunasuntharam is the lead tutor for the Griffiths III Child Developmental Scales at Evelina London. She previously served as a trustee of the Association for Research in Infant and Child Development (ARICD) and is currently a member of the Training Equipment Education Committee (TEEC).