Dr. Deepika Ramachandran — Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Deepika Ramachandran is a Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 7 years of experience in pulmonology.

Her list is broader than her years suggest. The interventional work is bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, transbronchial needle aspiration, medical thoracoscopy, cryo-lung biopsy and airway stenting. The medical work covers interstitial lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe asthma, bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension, complex pulmonary infection, drug-resistant tuberculosis and post-tuberculosis lung disease, and she is part of lung transplantation care. Cryo-lung biopsy alongside interstitial lung disease is the pairing that matters there, since it is the tissue diagnosis those cases often need.

She read MBBS at Saveetha Medical College in Chennai and took her MD in pulmonary medicine at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, also in Chennai, as a gold medallist. She added the DNB in pulmonary medicine from the National Board of Examinations and the European Diploma in Respiratory Medicine from the European Respiratory Society.

Her awards begin in training and continue into practice. She took third place at TAPCON 2018 for a paper on APACHE II in acute respiratory failure and best case report presentation at the Clinical Society Meet in Chennai the same year, and MGM Healthcare named her Young Achiever of the Year in 2022.

She has research presentations and publications at national and international forums, and serves as faculty, presenter, panelist and workshop moderator at major pulmonology conferences. She practises at MGM Healthcare in Chennai.