Lakshmi Srivaths, MD

Biography

Lakshmi Srivaths, MD, is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and Gulf States Hemophilia and Thrombophilia Center in the Texas Medical Center. Her area of expertise is pediatric hemostasis and thrombosis, anemias, sickle cell disease, and general hematology. She is actively involved in clinical care, education, and research in the fields of pediatric bleeding disorders, thromboembolism, sickle cell disease and anemia.

Dr. Srivaths is the director of the Pediatric Thrombosis Clinic and co-director of the pediatric brain and spine clinic at UTHealth Houston. She is also faculty at the Young Women’s Bleeding Disorder Clinic. She was previously the co-director of the Young Women’s Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program at Texas Children’s Hospital from 2009-2019. She is former chair for the Women and Girls with Blood Disorders Learning Action Network (WGBD LAN); former chair and co-chair of WGBD LAN’s education and advocacy sub-committee and thrombosis sub-committee and member of the mentorship committee; a member of the Medical Advisory Council for the Foundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders; principal investigator at the International Pediatric Thrombosis Network; co-chair for the Pediatric and Neonatal Thrombosis and Hemostasis Scientific Sub-committee at the International Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis. She serves as one of the Department of Pediatrics mentoring program faculty; is a member of the education committee, and has helped to create the Faculty Education Awards.
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 the John P. McGovern “Champion in Women’s Health & Wellness Award 2025”; BCM’s 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, McGovern Medical School, 2021-2024.