Rate My Professor Sonam Mishra

Sonam Mishra serves as a Professional Practice Fellow, known as Kairuruku Ritenga Utua, in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Otago, Wellington. She earned her MB ChB from the University of Otago and holds fellowships as FRACP from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and FRCPA from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. The Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine is a multidisciplinary unit that includes sub-disciplines of haematology, microbiology, chemical pathology, anatomical pathology, and molecular pathology. It provides teaching and resources for learning and research aimed at investigating disease processes to facilitate effective treatments and improve health outcomes. The department hosts the Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences with Honours programme focused on translational medicine research and offers undergraduate teaching on disease processes to develop clinical competency in diagnosis and management.

Sonam Mishra has made contributions to medical literature through peer-reviewed publications in haematology and transfusion medicine. In 2017, she co-authored the paper 'Haemochromatosis: evaluating the effectiveness of a novel patient self-management approach to venesection as blood donation' in The New Zealand Medical Journal (volume 130, no. 1457, pages 55-62), affiliated with the Haematology Department at Wellington Regional Hospital. The study analyzed data from 107 patients discharged from the New Zealand Blood Service therapeutic venesection clinic between January 2014 and June 2015, finding that 93% continued blood donations post-discharge, 78% had ferritin levels checked, 71% were fully successful in both criteria, and no patients had ferritin exceeding 500 mcg/L, though donation frequency decreased slightly and mean ferritin increased by 28 mcg/L. In 2023, as corresponding author, she published 'Utilisation of immunoglobulin in New Zealand' in Internal Medicine Journal (volume 53, issue 6, pages 1017-1022), with affiliations to New Zealand Blood Service in Christchurch and the University of Otago, Christchurch, where she was a Transfusion Medicine Fellow. She also co-authored a 2020 case report 'GATA2 deficiency in a young man with lymphoedema' in British Journal of Haematology (volume 190, issue 6, page e15), affiliated with the Blood and Cancer Centre at Wellington Regional Hospital. Additionally, she is listed as Provisional Fellow in Transfusion Medicine in the New Zealand Blood Service Haemovigilance Annual Report 2020.