Dr Smriti Khanna completed her Internal Medicine training from St Johns Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangalore, India, and went on to pursue a clinical fellowship in Hemato-oncology from the prestigious Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow.
She then went on to train in Palliative Care, receiving training from Kerala as well as Cardiff University (Wales, UK) and acquired her MSc in Palliative Medicine.
She is the lead clinician at the Living Will Clinic, the first of its kind in India.
She was part of the 6 member team that started pediatric palliative care at the prestigious BJ Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai.
MRCP (UK)
MSc (Palliative Medicine) Cardiff University
Dr Smriti Khanna has worked in many prestigious universities and hospitals, including Seth GS Medical College, St John’s Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute, BJ Wadia Hospital for Children. She has also received her MRCP (UK) degree and has completed her Masters in Palliative Medicine from Cardiff University.
Dr. Smriti Khanna is a reviewer for the Indian Journal of Palliative Care.
She is a member of the Maharashtra Palliative Care network and the Indian Association of Palliative Care.
She has six years of teaching experience and has instructed residents and mentored fellows. She also has experience of working in critical care and nephrology.
She has been a teaching faculty at national and international Palliative Care training programmes and has worked with the Maharashtra Government to design training programmes for healthcare professionals.
- Subeditor at- Doherty M. Global Handbook of Children’s Palliative Care. Pleural Effusion. Global Health Dynamics (UK). 2025
- Menon M, Khanna S.End of Life Care. Critical Care Perspectives: From Theory to Practice. Siddiqui S, Ghatak T, Nath S. Jaypee Brothers. 2024
- Reviewer- Indian Journal of Palliative Care
- Reviewer- Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
- Reviewer- Pediatric and Neonatal Pain
· 2026- Faculty at the Applied Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care for Clinicians in LMICs ECHO (with Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration)
· 2026- Faculty at Pediatric Palliative Care Workshop at IAPCON 2026, Hyderabad
· 2026- Faculty, India’s first Advanced care Planning Workshop, Iqraa Hospital, Calicut
· 2025- Faculty, Essentials of Geriatric-Palliative Care (Academy of Palliative Medicine)
· 2025- Faculty and Clinical Attachment Centre, IAPC and APM Certificate Course in Basics of Palliative Care
· 2025- Faculty, Global Fellowship in Palliative Medicine, Pallium India
· 2024-25- Lead, Tools for Modern Clinical Practice ECHO (Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration)
· 2024- Faculty at Education in End of Life and Palliative Care (EPEC) Pediatrics and Professional Development Workshop (PDW) at Karunashraya, Bangalore, Karnataka
· 2024- Faculty at the IAP Advanced Course in Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care
· 2024- Faculty at Grief and Bereavement Workshop at IAPCON 2024 in Association with St Jude’s Hospital, Tennessee
· 2023- 2025- Faculty at the International Neuropalliative care certificate course (https://www.inpcs.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3363)
· 2023 (ongoing)- Faculty and early career mentor at the Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship Program- a joint venture by Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration and Hyderabad Centre for Palliative Care
· 2023- Faculty at Pediatric Palliative Care Workshop and Serious Illness Conversation Guide Workshop held at the IAPCON 2023, Bengaluru
· 2022- Faculty at Hands on Training in Pediatric Palliative Care at Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh
· 2022-24- Faculty at the Project ECHO on Pediatric Palliative Care: Virtual Training Program, Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration
· 2020-21— Faculty at series of lectures and workshops organised by IAP (Indian Academy of Pediatrics) on Pediatric Palliative Care
· 2020-21- Faculty, Basic Certificate Course for Pain and Palliative Care, IAP
· 2020- Faculty at Palliative Care Certificate Course for Healthcare professionals (A joint venture of Mumbai Palliative Care Network and Life Supporters Institute)
· 2019-20- Faculty at training of trainers organised by the Government of Maharashtra for District Health Officers on Palliative Care
· 2019-20- Mumbai Palliative Care Network Trainer in adult and paediatric Palliative care training held in Holy Family Hospital, Comprehensive Thalassemia Care and Bone Marrow Transplant Centre (Project of LTMC Hospital)
· 2019-Worked with the Government of Maharashtra to create modules in Palliative Care for training of doctors, nurses and ASHA workers in public sector
Dr Smriti Khanna has had multiple oral and poster presentations at imminent national and international conferences. She has been part of the committee deciding guidelines for standards of pediatric palliative care and for end of life care in pediatric hemato-oncology. She has authored multiple publications, edited medical books and written book chapters on end of life care and pediatric palliative care.
· 2025- Oral Presentation- Development of Advance Care Planning Educational Material Following Community-Based Need Assessment in India. Advanced Care Planning International Conference, Australia 2025
· 2023- ePoster Presentation- Implementation of Palliative Care Practices for Neurocritical Illnesses in a Quaternary NICU in India at the ESPNIC , Greece (European Society for pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care)
· 2023- Oral Presentation- Ethical Dilemma in a case of right sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia: Using the Jonsen’s four box model at the ESPNIC 2023, Greece
· 2021- ePoster Presentation- The role of DNAR (Do Not Attempt Resuscitation) Decisions in a tertiary care pediatric hospital - at the IAPCON Patna (International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care)
• 2020- Oral presentation on sibling involvement in paediatric palliative care - a single centre experience at the IAPCON (International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care) 2020, Guwahati (https://www.jpalliativecare.com/article.asp?issn=0973-1075;year=2020;volume=26;issue=2;spage=221;epage=236;aulast=)
· 2018- Poster Presentation on the diverse presentations of Plasmablastic Lymphoma at Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion- European Hematology Association
· 2014- Platform Presentation in APICON 2014 on Eltrombopag: A new drug in our arsenal against SLE thrombocytopenia (https://japi.org/oral_Feb_2014/Immunology.html)
· Khanna S, Vyas S, Dinand V, Gursahani R, More K. "To treat or not to treat: A toolkit-based ethics consultation in a newborn." Indian Journal of Medical Ethics [Online], XI. 1 (NS) (2026): 55.
· Khanna U, Khanna S. Living Will and Advance Care Planning: The Need of the Hour. The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. 2025 Dec;73(12):13-4.
· Doherty M. Global Handbook of Children’s Palliative Care. Pleural Effusion. Global Health Dynamics (UK). 2025
· Siddiqui S, Ghatak T, Nath S. Critical Care Perspectives: From Theory to Practice. End of Life Care (Menon M, Khanna S). Jaypee Brothers. 2024
· Khanna S, Khanna U. Palliative Care in Advanced Kidney Disease: The Approach for a Nephrologist. Indian Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2024 Jul 1;3(3):74-7.
· Kanwar VS, Bagai P, Borker A, Dinand V, Gursahani R, Kurhade K, Kalra M, Khanna S, Nair M, Mahajan A, Palat G. Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy in terminally ill children with cancer: A position statement by the PHO chapter of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal. 2024 Jan 4.
• Talawadekar P, Khanna S, Dinand V, Fernandes P, Deodhar J, Muckaden MA. How the COVID-19 pandemic experience has affected pediatric palliative care in Mumbai. Indian Journal of Palliative Care. 2020 Jun;26(Suppl 1):S17.
