Dr. J V S Aswith Chowdary — Consultant Clinical & Interventional Pulmonologist in Hyderabad

Dr. J V S Aswith Chowdary is a Consultant Clinical and Interventional Pulmonologist and Allergy and Immunology Specialist at Yashoda Hospitals, Hi-Tech City, in Hyderabad, with more than 11 years of experience.

His list covers interventional, medical and sleep respiratory work. The interventional side is bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, transbronchial needle aspiration and airway stenting. The medical side covers interstitial lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe asthma, bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension, complex pulmonary infection and drug-resistant tuberculosis. The sleep side covers obstructive sleep apnea, polysomnography and CPAP titration.

He read MBBS at Andhra Medical College in Vishakapatnam between 2008 and 2013, took the DNB in respiratory diseases at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi from 2016 to 2019, and his DM in pulmonary medicine at Christian Medical College, Vellore, from 2020 to 2023.

Both his awards come from that training. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital gave him the Late Shri Ajay Kumar Basu Award for the best DNB trainee in pulmonology, and the Indian Chest Society placed him third for the Dr. J C Kothari Young Scientist Award at NAPCON 2022 in Udaipur.

His published work is interventional. He has written on the evolving role of rapid on-site evaluation in pulmonary interventions and co-authored a report on the feasibility and safety of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy in a patient with ARDS on veno-venous ECMO, both in Ann Interv Pulmonol. He also co-authored a three-case series on unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis in Respirology Case Reports, a case report in BMJ Case Reports, and earlier work on shorter regimens for latent tuberculosis.