Informed Medical Opinion

Dr. Rajee Ananda is a graduate of Thanjavur Medical College, University of Madras, India. She completed a year of her internship at the Thanjavur Medical College Hospital before moving to the United States. She completed a three-year residency in neurology and one year of clinical fellowship in neurology and pharmacology at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. Since 1981, Dr. Ananda has been in private practice, specializing in neurology in the Simi Valley/Westlake Village region of California, with privileges at several hospitals. She is currently on the faculty of neurology at USC Medical School in Los Angeles.

Dr. Ajay Ananda graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Neuroscience from Brown University in Rhode Island before obtaining his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He performed an internship in general surgery and a residency in neurosurgery at University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. Thereafter, he affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as an Attending Neurosurgeon. He is currently an Attending Neurosurgeon at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles.

Jaya Ananda is an honor roll student at Harvard Westlake High School interested in pursuing higher studies in medicine. She has a lot of experience dealing with people who have disabilities, especially children. She is currently working as the principle patient coordinator to provide the best service from the foundation by communicating with patients and advising them on how to interface through the online medical software platform. She is excited to help each and every patient she encounters and ensure they get the best treatment available to them.

Dr. Venkatraman Sadanand earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He earned master's and doctorate degrees from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, followed by a medical degree from the University of Toronto in Canada. He completed a residency in neurosurgery at Royal University Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. That was followed by a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Northwestern University, Chicago. Dr. Venkataraman is currently an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA. His expertise is in pediatric neurosurgery and epilepsy surgery.

Dr. Prasad Ananda completed his medical degree at the Medical College, Thanjavur, India before joining the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center in Los Angeles as a Research Associate in cardiology. Subsequently, he completed a residency in anesthesia at the same medical center before performing a residency (including one year as Chief Resident) in internal medicine at the University of Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham, AL. Since 1983, Dr. Ananda has been in private practice in internal medicine in Oxnard, CA.

Dr. Kumar Ananda did his M.D. from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal/ Mangalore in India (1970–1976). He worked as Tutor in Anatomy at KMC Mangalore (1977–1978) and did his Internship at Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles (1980–1981). He did Pediatric Residency in Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia (1981–1983) and then did Neonatology Fellowship at LAC/USC Medical Center, Los Angeles (1984–1985). Since 1985, he has been an attending Neonatologist in both St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital, Camarillo and St. Regional Medical center, Oxnard,CA. For the past 5 years he has limited his practice to taking care of high risk infants, graduates of NICU and some adolescent patients as well.