Dr. Mahesh Gudelli — Course Director and Mentor in Hyderabad

Dr. Mahesh Gudelli is Course Director and Mentor of the Interventional Fellowship Programme at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 10 years of experience in pulmonology.

His list is weighted toward interventional work. He performs bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, transbronchial needle aspiration, cryo-lung biopsy and airway stenting. The medical side covers interstitial lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe asthma, bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension, complex pulmonary infection, drug-resistant tuberculosis and obstructive sleep apnea.

He read MBBS at Kakatiya Medical College and Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Warangal and took the DNB in pulmonary medicine at Yashoda Hospital in Hyderabad. He holds the European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine from the European Respiratory Society, completed a comprehensive sleep medicine course with APCSM, and took a certificate course in health care management at ISB in Hyderabad.

The fellowship programme he directs is the part of his record that sets it apart. A surgeon or physician who mentors an interventional fellowship is responsible for other doctors' procedural training as well as his own list, and his own award record includes appreciation as faculty at the South India Post-Graduate Pulmonary Medicine Conference in 2021 and at RESPCARE-2022, a continuing education meeting for respiratory therapists. He also received an award of appreciation for COVID services from the Osmania Medical College Alumni Association.

His memberships run across the field: the Indian Chest Society, the European Respiratory Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, the Indian Association for Bronchology, and the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology.