Dr. Subramanian is boarded in Pediatrics and Neonatal Perinatal Medicine. He joined Georgetown University after his residency and fellowship training in 1974. He is currently Professor of Pediatrics & Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Chief of Neonatology at Georgetown University Hospital. He has published more than 100 articles, abstracts, and scientific presentations nationally and internationally. Research interests include infant mortality reduction, trace element metabolism in infants, neonatal immunology, and Bioethics. Recipient of NIH grants for the last 23 years and numerous other research grants. He teaches at GU Medical Center and Medstar Georgetown University Hospital about Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Religious traditions in Health Care and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Dr. Subramanian served in the Institutional Review Board, Dean’s Council on Bioethics, Chairman of Hospital Ethics Committee, Chairman of Pediatric Ethics Committee, Chair of GUMC Research Committee, and Committee on Appointment and Promotion at GUMC. He is currently a Senior Ethicist at MGUH and a Faculty associate at Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He was featured in a cover article on “Preemies” in Newsweek, Washingtonian magazine, and on the cover of GUMC web magazine. He was honored as Teacher of the Year in 1981, given the MAGIS Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007 at GUMC, and Kaiser Permanente Clinical Teacher Award in 2007.
Dr. Subramanian is involved in Interfaith education and dialogue. He was a cofounder of the Hindu American Community Service Incorporation 2009 which helps the Bhutanese refugees, serves in DC Central Kitchen serving more than million meals till now and in MD and VA. And he continues to serve as a Board of Director till now. He was also a Board of Director of HASC and conducted several conferences at The Whitehouse 2008 – 2016.
He is the regional Coordinator for AIM for Seva in the DMV area supporting poor rural and tribal children’s education in India. Recently, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award 2019, by American Diversity Group Lifetime Achievement Award and Interfaith Leadership Award in 2019.