Professor Krishnan is a physician with a national and international profile in various clinical, research and educational areas in nephrology and transplantation.  She is leadership trained, including the Harvard Leading Innovations in Health Care & Education program, and has over 250 peer-reviewed academic outputs. Her main research interests include antibody incompatible transplantation, prediction models in transplantation, long term outcomes of transplantation, live donation, nonadherence in young adults and health inequalities. She is particularly passionate about helping women around the world, to break the glass ceilings and fly off from glass cliffs.

As Consultant Transplant Nephrologist at UHCW she conceptualized and devised a formal partnership in Transplantation, between UHCW and Oxford, forming the COxTNet, which has pioneered the way for collaborative partnerships between other units in U.K.

As the Education Committee Co-chair of The Transplantation Society, she has been involved in setting up training programs in transplantation to benefit trainees globally. She has actively helped with the launch of the Commonwealth ‘Tribute to life’, a consortium in transplantation to enable organ donation and transplantation in developing countries. She is currently collaborating with MOHAN Foundation, India, and developing online training modules for nurses, coordinators and doctors in transplantation world-wide.

She has won the following national and international awards:

• For the Sake of Honour Award, the La Renon TANKER Foundation, India, January 2021
• Women’s Role Model Award, British Asian Physicians of Indian Origin, U.K, November 2020 and
• Finalist, Asian Women Achievement Awards, Professions Category, U.K, July 2020