Dr. Apar Jindal — Director of Pulmonology & Transplant Medicine in Delhi NCR

Dr. Apar Jindal is Director of Pulmonology and Transplant Medicine at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, in Delhi NCR, with more than 21 years of experience. His profile records pulmonology together with lung transplant surgery.

His list is among the fullest in the specialty. The interventional work is bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, transbronchial needle aspiration and airway stenting. The medical work covers interstitial lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe asthma, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, drug-resistant tuberculosis, post-tuberculosis lung disease and complex pulmonary infection, and the sleep work obstructive sleep apnea, polysomnography and CPAP titration. Lung transplantation sits at the end of that range, and cystic fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension are among the conditions that lead to it.

He read MBBS at Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, in 2005 and took his MD in respiratory medicine at Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute in 2015, winning the gold medal. In 2023 he took fellowships from the National College of Chest Physicians at the University of Delhi and from the United Academy of Pulmonary Medicine.

His hospital record follows the transplant programmes. It includes the Institute of Heart and Lung Transplant at Gleneagles Global Health City, MGM Healthcare and Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, Yashoda Hospital in Secunderabad, the Metro Centre for Respiratory Diseases in Noida, and the University of California Davis Medical Centre in Sacramento.

He was named Pulmonologist of the Year at the Economic Times Healthcare Awards in 2023 and gave the Dr. SK Jain and Dr. SK Katiyar Oration at NAPCON in 2025.