Dr. Jayaraman S — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Jayaraman S is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 20 years of experience in pulmonology.

His list is medical respiratory work with two procedures alongside it. He performs bronchoscopy and medical thoracoscopy, and manages chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe asthma, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea and complex pulmonary infection. Drug-resistant tuberculosis and post-tuberculosis lung disease both appear, so the active disease and the scarring it leaves behind are treated in the same practice.

He read MBBS at Tirunelveli Medical College in 1992 and took the DTCD, the diploma in tuberculosis and chest diseases, at Madras Medical College in 2000. In 2005 he became a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.

His memberships run wider than most and cover each part of his list. He belongs to the Indian Chest Society and the Indian Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology for the respiratory and procedural work, the Indian Sleep Disorder Association and the World Sleep Society for the sleep work, and the American Thoracic Society and the Indian Medical Association more generally. Two separate sleep bodies, one national and one international, sit behind the obstructive sleep apnea on his list.

A diploma in tuberculosis and chest diseases taken in Chennai, an American fellowship five years later, and two decades of practice since describe a physician whose training began with tuberculosis at a time when it dominated the specialty, and whose list still carries both its resistant and its late forms. He practises at MGM Healthcare in Chennai.