Sharanya is a final year medical student at King’s College London. She completed an intercalated degree in Prehospital Medicine in 2022-2023 at Queen Mary University where she graduated with First Class Honours. She has completed shifts with London’s Air Ambulance as well as multiple branches of the London Ambulance Service including their Fast Response Units, Tactical Response Units and with London’s Advanced Paramedic Practitioners. She works as an EMT for Medicare, an events medicine company that is used by Wembley Arena, the O2 and Tottenham Stadium. 

 

She has a special interest in the medical management of mass casualty incidents having completed a dissertation exploring the human factors affecting paediatric prehospital care during mass casualty crises. She presented this work at the Faculty of Prehospital Care’s annual conference last year. She recently received a scholarship to complete her medical elective at an Emergency Department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados where she hopes to undertake shifts with the country’s Emergency Ambulance Service (EAS). She completed the KCL WMS training course last year.