Dr. Sindhura Koganti — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Sindhura Koganti is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 13 years of experience. Her profile records pulmonology together with interventional pulmonology and sleep medicine.

Her list reflects all three. The interventional work is bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, transbronchial needle aspiration, medical thoracoscopy and airway stenting. The medical work covers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe asthma, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension, post-tuberculosis lung disease and complex pulmonary infection, and she is part of lung transplantation care. The sleep work covers obstructive sleep apnea with CPAP titration and management.

She read MBBS and took her MD in pulmonary medicine at Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences in Andhra Pradesh, finishing as state second topper in the MD. Her lung transplant observership was at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney from April to July 2018.

Her record from the pandemic is specific. She was lead consultant managing COVID ICU, ECMO and inpatient and outpatient care, and her profile counts more than 1,000 ICU patients treated alongside extensive outpatient consultations.

She has published nationally and internationally in pulmonary medicine, including case reports and clinical studies in the Indian Chest Journal, the Saudi Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Cureus, with research contributions on COPD, asthma, pulmonary infections and biomarkers. She won first prize in the quiz competition at BRONCHOCON 2013 and is an active speaker and faculty at national and international conferences.

She is a member of ISHLT, the European Respiratory Society and the Indian Chest Society, and has also been affiliated with Fortis Hospital at Vadapalani and Sri Ramachandra Medical College in Chennai.