Dr. Vijil Rahulan
M.D,FCCP(USA),FACP, AB(Int. Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine) HOD, Pulmonary/Critical Care & Senior Transplant Pulmonoligist Institute of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine & Lung Transplantation.
Senior Consultant and Clinical Lead - Transplant Pulmonology
Heart and Lung Transplantation
Chennai
Educational Qualifications
- Diplomate of American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Graduated from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 1993.
- Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA.
- Fellowship in Critical Care medicine from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Further training in Interventional Pulmonology at Lahey Clinic, Massachusetts, USA and in Lung Transplantation at Barnes Jewish Medical Center, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Seven years of full time consultative practice experience in USA in the field of Pulmonolgy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.
Present Position
HOD, Pulmonary/Critical Care & Senior Transplant Pulmonologist
Institute of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine & Lung Transplantation At Gleneagles Global Health city, Chennai (from 2008 till present)
- Actively involved in the first lung transplant done in India in 2011
- Experience of more than 70 lung transplantations since 2011
Affiliations And Memberships
- Elected Fellow of American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians and is a member of American Society of Critical Care medicine and American association of Bronchology.
- Executive Committee Member of Indian Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Research & Publication
- Has published several research papers in reputed international journals in the field of Pulmonlogy Medicine and Lung Transplantation