Physician Profile

Santhanam Lakshminarayanan, M.D.

Dr. Santhanam Lakshminarayanan is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He is the director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program. Dr. Lakshminarayanan’s areas of expertise are in lyme disease, gout and systemic rheumatic disease. He has published papers on phospholipid antibody syndrome, Raynaud’s phenomenon and bone density and systemic lupus erythematous.

Appointment

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, UConn  Health Center
• Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Program, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Specialty

• Internal Medicine

Subspecialty

• Rheumatology

• Rheumatic Disease
• Scleroderma
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Arthritis
• Gout

Certification
Internal Medicine
Rheumatology

Education
M.B.B.S., University of Poona, India

State Licensure
Connecticut

Residency
Internal Medicine: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Fellowship
Rheumatology: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Selected Publications
William Traverse, Beatriz Tendler, Charles Galea, Santhanam Lakshminarayanan and Ann Parke: Neuroendocrine Manifestations of Phospholipid Antibody Disease Identified by Long-Term Follow-Up study of Patients with Phospholipid Antibodies. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2006 Vol 1069 (1):286-390.

Lakshminarayanan, S., Walsh, S., Mohanraj, M., Rothfield ,N.F. :Factors associated with Low Bone Mineral Density in Female Patients with SLE. J Rheumatol 2001; 28:102-108.

Lakshminarayanan, S., Vazquez-Abad, D., Maestrello, S.,Waterman, J.R.: Treatment of severe Raynaud’s phenomenon and ischemic ulcerations with tissue plasminogen activator. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 1999;17(2):260.

View more publications, see Pubmed listing.

Research Interests

Clinical Research

• Scleroderma
• Systemic rheumatic disease
• Use of P32 radioactive synovectomy in refractory inflammatory monoarthritis