Dr. L. Harish Rao — Consultant Clinical & Interventional Pulmonologist in Hyderabad

Dr. L. Harish Rao is a Consultant Clinical and Interventional Pulmonologist at Yashoda Hospitals, Hi-Tech City, in Hyderabad, with more than 10 years of experience. His profile records pulmonology together with interventional pulmonology.

His list covers bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, transbronchial needle aspiration, medical thoracoscopy and airway stenting, alongside severe asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis and complex pulmonary infection. The sleep work covers obstructive sleep apnea with CPAP titration and management.

He read MBBS at Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal in 2013 and took his MD in pulmonary medicine at Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad in 2018.

His presented work runs through those training years and covers both common and rare disease. He carried out a study assessing exercise-induced desaturation in adult patients with COPD on the six-minute walk test, a bedside measure used in the condition that heads his list. He presented a research paper on Kartagener's syndrome at NAPCON 2016 in Mumbai, a case report on post varicella pneumonia at NAPCON 2017 in Kolkata, and a case report on primary thoracic Ewing's sarcoma at KCS TS RESPICON 2018, where he also received a certificate of appreciation for taking first prize in poster presentation.

Three national or state conference presentations in three consecutive years, each on a different condition, is a steady record for a physician at this stage.

Alongside Yashoda Hospitals at Hitec City he has been affiliated with Archana Hospital in Miyapur and Sri Harsha Hospital in Kukatpally.