Dr Tharani Thirugnana Chandran qualified from the University of Leeds with a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology and a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. She completed her postgraduate training in Yorkshire in Geriatrics, Stroke and General Medicine, working as a Consultant Stroke Physician and Geriatrician at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

She completed her Neurology training in Melbourne and a fellowship in Stroke Medicine at Monash Medical Centre. She is currently undertaking a Translational Research PhD at Monash University. She is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Associations of Neurologists and Stroke Society of Australia and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Dr Thirugnana Chandran practices as a General Neurologist with specialist interest in Stroke.