MBBS - Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College - 2005 - Karnataka
M.D. - Respiratory Medicine - Chettinad Hospital & Research Institute - 2015 - Tamil Nadu
Certified Sleep Specialist - World Sleep Federation - Indian Board of Sleep Medicine
Experiences
Junior Resident - Internal Medicine Indraprastha Apollo Hospital - New Delhi - 2006
Research Associate (Junior Specialist) Pediatrics University of California (Davis) Medical Centre, Sacramento, California, USA - 2007 - 2010
Consultant and Head, Sleep Medicine Metro Centre for Respiratory Diseases - Noida - 2010 - 2012
Senior Resident (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) Metro Centre for Respiratory Diseases - Noida - 2015
Junior Consultant (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) VIMHANS Primamed Hospital - New Delhi - 2015 - 2016
Consultant Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Apollo Hospital - Chennai - 2016 - 2017
Consultant - Transplant Pulmonology, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Institute of Heart & Lung Transplant, Gleneagles Global Health City - Chennai - 2017 - 2020
Clinical Director - Lung Transplant, Interventional Pulmonology & Chest Medicine MGM Healthcare - Chennai - 2020 - 2021
Director - Advanced Lung Failure, Transplant Pulmonologist & Co-Director - Lung Failure Unit Yashoda Hospitals - Secunderabad
Awards and Recognitions
Gold Medal in ENT
Gold Medal - MD. Respiratory Medicine
Second Prize, Quiz, Ramachandra Rapid Review in Respiratory Medicine (RRRR)
Memberships
International Society for Heart & Lung Transplant (ISHLT)
Indian National Society for Heart & Lung Transplant (INSHLT)
American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)
Indian Chest Society (ICS)
National College of Chest Physicians (NCCP)
Indian Sleep Disorders Association (ISDA)
Indian Society for Sleep Research (ISSR) - Treasurer
SouthEast Asian Academy of Sleep Medicine (SEASM) - Founder Member
International Society of Behavioral Medicine
Paper Presentations
“Lung Transplantation for COVID-19 associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – International experience of First National Transplants” - Lancet Respir Med 2021 - Published Online- March,31,2021-https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00077-1
“Lung Transplant in Pulmonary Hypertension”, Lung Bulletin, National College of Chest Physicians, January 2020, Volume1 – 67-68
Review Article - “Lung Transplant”, Respire from Indian Chest Society, May-August 2020, 34-41.
“Guidelines of the Indian Society for Sleep Research (ISSR) for practice of Sleep Medicine during COVID 19”, Sleep and Vigilance.
“Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis – A Rare Disease treated with Lung Transplantation, first case from India.”, Lung India, Year 2019, Volume 36, Issue 6, 546-549.
“A Case of Lung Transplant”, p116-122, Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease & Pulmonary Fibrosis, by Dr S.K. Jindal.
“Comparison of Safety and Efficacy of Oral Montelukast and Intranasal Fluticasone Propionate in Management of Patients with Bronchial Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis” Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Aug, Vol-10(8): OC06-OC10.
“Correlation of Peripheral Eosinophilia with Severity of Nasobronchial Allergy”. International Journal of Science and Research(IJSR), Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2015:1865 – 1868.
“Pulmonary Sequestration – rare findings”. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, 2015 Jan; 6(1):(B) 1134-1139.
“The Study of Efficacy, Tolerability and Safety of Theophylline given along with Formoterol Plus Budesonide in COPD”. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2015 Feb, Vol-9 (2):OC10-OC13.
“Overlap Syndrome – The Coexistence of Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)”. Chettinad Health City Medical Journal, Volume 1, Number 3, July – September 2012: 120-123.
“Comparison of Clinico-Radiological Profile of New Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Cases among adults and elderly people”. International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2015:1003-1005.
“Airway Complications Post Lung Transplant: Largest Singly Centre Indian experience”, Chest. June 2020.
“Successful Bilateral Lung Transplant for Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India”, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Vol. 37, Issue 4, JF3579.
“Establishing a Lung Transplant Program in a Resource Constrained Setting”, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Vol. 37, Issue 4, S255.
“Correlation of Tacrolimus Levels and Metabolizer Status Based on CYP3A5 Polymorphism in Indian Lung Transplant Recipients”, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Vol. 38, Issue 4, S410.