Dr Vinu Narayan is currently working as Consultant in Medical Genetics at Rainbow Children's hospitals, Marathahalli, Bangalore. After completion of MD in Pediatrics from B J Government Medical College, Pune, she went on to receive her 3 years super-specialty training in Medical Genetics (DNB-SS) from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital New Delhi. Dr Vinu is the recipient of the “President Gold Medal” award for DNB-SS in Medical Genetics. She has many awards to her credit for paper presentations at national and international conferences.
She is specialised in diagnosis, management and counselling of patients/families with various genetic disorders, dysmorphic syndromes, skeletal dysplasias, neuromuscular disorders, metabolic disorders, autism, malformations, intellectual disability, deafness, albinism, thalassemia, short stature, haemophilia, consanguinity and pre-conception counselling of couples for genetic disorders.
She has expertise in genetic management of pregnancies complicated by aneuploidy risk, teratogen exposure, intrauterine infection, fetal ultrasound abnormalities, recurrent pregnancy loss and unexplained still births/neonatal deaths, as well as extended evaluation of family members with history of genetic conditions like tuberous sclerosis, Huntington chorea, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, familial cancers and others.