Lakshmi Srivaths, MD

Biography

Dr. Lakshmi Srivaths is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology at University of Texas Health Science Center and McGovern Medical School and Gulf States Hemophilia and Thrombophilia Center at Houston, Texas. Her area of expertise is the field of pediatric hemostasis and thrombosis, anemias and general hematology. She is actively involved in clinical care, education and research in the fields of pediatric bleeding disorders, thromboembolism and anemia.

She is the Director of Pediatric Thrombosis Clinic and Co-Director of Pediatric Brain and Spine clinic at her institution. She was previously the Co-director of Young Women’s Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program at Texas Children’s Hospital from 2009-2019. She is the current Chair for the Women and Girls with Blood Disorders-Learning Action Network; a member of the Medical Advisory Council for the Foundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders; co-chair for the Pediatric and Neonatal Thrombosis & Hemostasis scientific sub-committee; and member of the Factor VIII, IX and Rare Coagulation Disorders scientific sub-committee, ISTH.

She has several publications, has received grant awards and steered several single and multi-center research projects, contributed to textbook chapters and clinical pathways in the fields of hemostasis and thrombosis, and is the editor of the textbook “Hematology in the Adolescent Female.”

Dr. Lakshmi Srivaths is the recipient of Women of Excellence Award, 2020; Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award, “Teaching and Evaluation” category, 2016; Rising Star Clinician Award, Baylor College of Medicine, 2015; Fulbright & Jaworski L. L. P. Faculty Excellence Award, “Teaching and Evaluation” category, 2011; Fellow’s Excellence in Education Award, Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center, 2011; Fellow’s Excellence in Education Award, UTH/MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2020; and Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas Health Science Center, 2021-2024.