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    Dr Asso Prof Laxman Jessani

    Infectious Diseases Specialist

    MBBS, DNB(Medicine), CCEBDM, MNAMS, FNB(Infectious Diseases), FRSPH(UK)

    8 years experience overall

    Plot # 13, Parsik Hill Road, Off Uran Road, Sector - 23, Cbd Belapur, Opp. Nerul Wonders Park, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai

    Specialities
    • Infectious diseases clinic
    • Adult Immunization
    • Travel vaccines
    • HIV management
    • Fungal and TB management
    Experience
    • Working in Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai since last Assignment
    Members ship
    • Trained in General and Transplant Infectious Diseases at Detroit Medical Centre, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA in October 2015 
    • Primer on Healthcare Epidemiology, Infection control and Antimicrobial Stewardship course by Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in July 2016 
    • Good antibiotic prescription practices and infection control certification program (GAPP-ICCP) at Amrita hospital, Kochi in February 2016 
    • Fundamental critical care support (FCCS) provider course, affiliated to Society of Critical Care, California, USA in January 2011. 
    • International short course in clinical tropical medicine course at CMC Vellore in November 2015 
    • Travel Medicine course at CMC, Vellore in November 2015. 
    • Infectious Disease Certificate Course (IDCC) at P D Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai in August 2013 
    • Reviewer for Australasian Medical Journal (AMJ) 
    • Reviewer for Open Journal of Clinical and Medical Case reports. 
    • Life-time Member of Association of Physicians’of India 
    • Design and format editor of monthly CIDS newsletter for Clinical Infectious Disease Society of India since June 2014 till date 
    • Member of Clinical Infectious Disease Society of India 
    • Member of Infectious Disease Society of America(IDSA)
    Certifications
    • Awarded prestigious “International Infectious Diseases Fellow” grant at Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), San Diego, 2015                                          
    • Honored with presentation in “poster walk” titled “Challenges in Infectious Diseases: Potential and Existing Solutions” at international infectious disease conference Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), San Diego, 2015                
    • Recipient of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust travel grant for observership in Infectious Diseases at Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in October 2015.                            
    • Recipient of travel grant by Clinical Infectious Disease Society at national level infectious disease conference CIDSCON 2015, New Delhi                                                                                  
    • Won All India Best Thesis Award: Dr Vithalrao Nadgouda Award in APICON (Association of Physicians, India), Ludhiana, Feb 2014          
    • Won Best Poster award in Pulmonology in National level conference- APICON 2013, Coimbatore in February 2013                                      
    • Won Best Paper award in Neurology in State level conference- KNACON 2012, Mysore in February 2012                                                        
    • Won Best Paper award in Pulmonology in State level conference- KAPICON 2012, Hassan in May 2012                                                          
    • Won Best Essay Contest for PG students published in MYAPI newsletter, API Mysore Chapter in May-July 2012, Vol 3 issue 4                    
    • Won 2nd prize in Critical Care Quiz in Critical Care Conference at CMC Vellore in January 2013.                                                                        
    • Won 2nd prize in “COPD Quiz” held on world COPD day at Apollo BGS Hospital, Mysore in November 2012.                                                  
    • Won “Best Employee of the year 2012” in Apollo BGS Hospital, Mysore in 2012                                                                                                        
    • Awarded Short Term Research Studentship on “Down’s syndrome” conducted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi in May 2003.                                                                            
    • First prize in “Debate contest” on Infection Control in GAPP-ICCP 2016 conference at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi in February 2016
    • Roy U, Jessani LG, Rudramurthy SM, Gopalakrishnan R, Dutta S, Chakravarty C, Jillwin J, Chakrabarti A. Seven cases of Saccharomyces fungaemia related to use of probiotics. Mycoses. 2017 Jan 1. 
    • Jessani LG, Nayak S, Lingam P, Devraj V, Parameswaran S, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V. Endotipsitis caused by extremely drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Tropical Gastroenterology. 2016 Jun 16;36(4):280-2. (http://dx.doi.org/10.7869/tg.310) 
    • Jessani LG, Gopalakrishnan R, Kumaran M, Devaraj V, Vishwanathan L. Scrub Typhus Causing Unilateral Optic Neuritis. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 2016 Jun 6:1-2 (doi: 10.1007/s12098-016-2169-0) 
    • Jessani, L.G. , M. Thirunarayan, A. Chakrabarti, D. Sureshkumar, A. Parameswaran ,R.Gopalakrishnan. Disseminated phaeohyphomycosis presenting as chromoblastomycosis in an immunocompetent host: A rare manifestation International Journal of Infectious Diseases , Apr 30; Volume 45 , 313 - 314 
    • Jessani LG, Patil S, Annapurneshwari D, Durairajan S, Gopalakrishnan R. Human ocular dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria repens: an underdiagnosed entity or emerging filarial disease?. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2016 Apr 30;45:177. 
    • Laxman G. Jessani, Vidyalakshmi, Abdul Ghafur titled “A study on comparative in vitro activity of carbapenem sparers against ESBL producing Enterobacteriaceae” in Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, March 2016
    • Laxman G. Jessani, Aumir Moin, Sivaprasad K, Keshavamurthy titled “Atypical Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) in Denovo late Post-partum Eclampsia” in Journal of Association of Physicians of India(JAPI), February 2016 
    • Sureshkumar R Gopalakrishnan, L Jessani : Congenital rubella syndrome exposure in a pediatric hospital: experience from developing world. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4(Suppl 1):P260 
    • Suresh D, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Laxman G Jessani titled “Ebola preparedness in South India: Is it in paper or in practice?” published in Journal of Patient Safety & Infection Control, volume 3, Issue 2. May- August, 2015 
    • Ram Gopalakrishnan, Laxman G Jessani titled ‘Infections in Burns” module of Critical Care Infectious Disease Course (CCIDC) by Indian College of Critical Care Medicine in 2015 (In press) 
    • Laxman G Jessani, V. Ramasubramanian, S. Nambi, S. Durairajan, R. Gopalakrishnan titled “Pulmonary mucormycosis” published in ESCMID online lecture library, 2015 
    • Jessani L, Thirunarayan M, Chakrabarti A D. Sureshkumar, A. Parameswaran ,R.Gopalakrishnan Disseminated phaeohyphomycosis presenting as chromoblastomycosisin an immunocompetent host: a rare manifestation F1000Research 2016, 5:540 (poster) (doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1111609.1) 
    • Jessani L, Patil S, Annapurneshwari D et al. Human ocular dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria repens: anunderdiagnosed entity or emerging filarial disease? F1000Research 2016, 5:541 (poster) (doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1111610.1) 
    • Jessani L, Gopalakrishnan R, Sureshkumar D and Ramsubramanian V. Genotypic HIV-1 drug resistance among patients with virological failure to antiretroviral therapy In private tertiary care hospital in South India F1000Research 2016, 5:1895 (poster) (doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1112767.1) 
    • Vinay D, Ramasubramanian V, Gopalakrishnan R, Jessani LG. Botryomycosis in a lung cavity. Lung India 2016;33:540-2 
    • Vinay D, V Ramsubramanian, Salgunan, Laxman G Jessani titled “Multivalvular Granulicatella Adiacens Endocarditis: A Case Report”in Germs journal (in press) 
    • Abhishek Singh, Sanjeeva Rao, Laxman G Jessani titled “An interesting case of recurrent VT/Tdp following chloroquine drug overdose” in Apollo Medicine journal, Vol 11, issue 2, Pg 119-21, June 2014 
    • Dr Vithalrao Nadgouda Award winning best thesis in APICON, 2014 abstract published in Journal of Association of Physicians of India(JAPI), Feb 2014 
    • Laxman G Jessani, Sanjeeva Rao, titled “Methhemoglobinemia following toxic exposure” in MYAPI newsletter, API Mysore Chapter in Feb-April 2012, Vol 3 issue 3 
    • Laxman G. Jessani, Basappa, titled “A Case of crossed aphasia” in MYAPI newsletter, API Mysore Chapter in May-July 2012, Vol 3 issue 4 
    • ICMR Research Studentship project titled “Down’s Syndrome - Variable chromosomal anomalies and variable clinical presentation” in May 2003
    Services
    • Infectious diseases clinic
    • Adult Immunization
    Languages spoken

    English,Bangla,Hindi,Kannada,Marathi,Tamil

    Gender

    male

    Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai

    Plot # 13, Parsik Hill Road, Off Uran Road, Sector - 23, Cbd Belapur, Opp. Nerul Wonders Park, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400614