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Dr Ilangho R P

Respiratory Medicine Specialist

MD; FRCP ( Glasgow) ; DTRD

33 years experience overall

Apollo Hospitals 21, Greams Lane, Off Greams Road Chennai 600 006 Ph:044-28290200/3333, Chennai

Specialities
  • Bronchitis Treatment
  • Bronchitis Treatment
  • Bronchoscopy(Diagnostic & Therapeutic)
  • Pulmonary Function Test
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Body Plethysmography
  • Critical care medicine
  • Covid-19 & Post Covid Pulmonary Complications
  • Lung Transplantation
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Diagnostic & therapeutic bronchoscopy - EBUS - Airway stenting
  • Medical thoracoscopy
  • Asthma/COPD/Tuberculosis
  • Sleep Medicine - Diagnostic & therapeutic
  • End stage lung diseases.
  • Asthma/COPD/Tuberculosis
  • Sleep Medicine - Diagnostic & Interventional bronchoscopy
  • Medical Thoracoscopy
  • Occupational lung disease
  • Critical care medicine
  • Pneumonia
  • Healthcare associated pneumonia & ventilated pneumonia
  • Adult Vaccination
  • Therapeutic procedure include: - Rigid Bronchoscopy - Cryo dubulking of tumors - Cryo lung biopsy - Laser debulking of tumors - Airway stenting (Both silicone & SEMS) - Balloon bronchoscopy - Spigot closure of bronchopleural fistula - Interstitial lung disease
  • Advanced thoracoscopic procedures like: - Adhesiolysis - Pneumothorax management
  • Interventional bronchoscopy
  • Asthma
  • COPD
  • Bronchiectasis
  • ILD
  • Sarcoidosis
  • ABPA
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Insomnia
  • Sleep disorders
  • Tuberculosis
  • Allergy
  • Covid - 19 treatment
  • Bronchoscopy
  • EBUS
  • Pulmonary Function Test
  • DLCO
  • lung transplant
  • Heart & Lungs Transplantation
Experience
  1. Vice-President (Medical) – BreatheEazy Clinic, for  Apollo Hospitals Group, India`s FIRST Disease Management Programme, since June 2008 TILL 2014. BreatheEazy Clinic is for Asthma & COPD [ Bronchitis]
  2. Working in Apollo Hospitals Greams Road, Chennai since 1995
  3. Post Graduate Teaching faculty in various fields  at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai for more than 27 years
  4. Ethics Committee Member -Apollo Hospitals, 2003 – 2006.
  5. Executive Editor – Apollo Hospitals, in- house journal,

            ‘Apollo Hospitals Proceedings’, since its inception in planning, design and content,    

                 2003 till closure.

  1. The first `Academic Medical Post Graduate  Coordinator` - for the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai since   2005  [ when the PG programme started]till DATE! taking care of about -on an average-10 PG Medical Diplomate National Board Students [ affiliated to the Government of India] >This Apollo Respiratory Medicine Department attracts the top ranks in the All India Medical PG Entrance Examinations & Provides a near 100% pass results.
  2. Coordinator -HEAD- for the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai since   2005 till 2015!              
  3. Given numerous Radio & TV talks
  4. Quiz Master for Medical Students regularly at Apollo Hospitals & others.  
  5. Examiner for Postgraduate medical students in Respiratory medicine in various government & private medical colleges .
  6. Member: Institutional Ethical Committee -The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R   Medical University, Chennai, India. 2013-2016
  7. Member: The Global Advisory Board of: The Disease Management Association of India (DMAI)-2009-2013
  8. 13.Consultant to many City hospitals.

 

Members ship

 

EDUCATION :

·MBBS

           Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India – November 1986

?DTRD (Diploma in Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases) #

       Madras Medical College, Chennai, India – April 1990

       # University (State) First-Rank

?MD

       Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India – April 1995

  • FRCP (Glasg)

       Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom       

                                                                                                                  –June 2007

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

1.      PRESIDENT: Indian Medical Association, Apollo Hospitals - Thousand- lights branch, Chennai

2.      Indian Association of Bronchology-Life Member.

3.      Indian Medical Association-Life Member.

4.      Indian Chest Society – Life member. ACCP (American College of Chest Physicians) – USA– Indian Chapter- Life Member. Association of Physicians of India –Life member.

5.      Indian Critical Care Society – Life Member.

6.      Fellow of Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

7.      VICE-PRESIDENT of FIRST ASSOCIATION OF PULMONOLOGISTS OF TAMILNADU- 2016 [APT] Member, Editorial Board, of FIRST Journal of Association of Pulmonologists of Tamilnadu [JAPI] 2016 Founder Member of Organizing Committee: FIRST TAPPCON Conference -Tamilnadu and Pondicherry Pulmonology Conference-2015 & 2016

8.      Member: former-The Global Advisory Board of: The Disease Management Association of India (DMAI)

Member: former-Institutional Ethical Committee -The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R Medical University, Chennai, India. 

 

 

Certifications
  • University-State [Tamilnadu]-FIRST- in DTRD (Diploma in Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases)-1990
  • VICE PRESIDENT (Medical) – BreatheEazy Clinic, for  Apollo Hospitals Group, India`s FIRST Disease Management Programme, since June 2008 TILL 2014. BreatheEazy Clinic is for Asthma & COPD [ Bronchitis
  • The FIRST `Academic Medical Post Graduate  Coordinator` - for the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai since   2005 till date for PG Medical students.
  • VICE-PRESIDENT of FIRST Association of Pulmonologists of Tamilnadu- 2016 till date.
  • In the Core Group for the formation of the FIRST Interventional Pulmonology Association in Tamilnadu-2022-in process.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

 

Many in National & International Journals & Peer Reviewer for them.

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Principle Investigator, of Phase IV, Open-label, non-comparative, multicentric, trial, titled  ‘Use of Meropenem in the treatment of Moderate and Severe Infections’ in 2003.

Investigator (Unblinded Physician) in, global, multicenter, double-blind, comparative, randomized, Phase III trial, to evaluate `The efficacy and safety of Micafungin versus Liposomal Amphotericin B in the treatment of Invasive Candidiasis and Candidaemia`, between 2003 to 2004.

Investigator (Unblinded Physician) in Phase III, global, randomized double-blind comparative study of`` Micafungin versus Caspofungin as an antifungal treatment in patients with Invasive Candidiasis and Candidaemia`, in 2005.

Abovementioned trials subjected to US FDA audit

Trained in ICH-GCP (International Conference on Harmonisation Regulations - Good Clinical Practices).

*Centre Principal Investigator, in the Writing Group of the Global Asthma Network Study Group- 2013 till date

Drug Trials  -various  @    - Apollo Hospitals ,Chennai , India.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
  1. RajBSingh, Babu Abraham, Guhan AR, Ilangho RP, Sanjay Sobti. Transbronchial Lung Biopsy through the Fibreoptic Bronchoscope. A Retrospective Analysis biopsied of 256 patients. Lung India 1998; 1:10-13.
  2. Narasimhan R, Ilangho RP, Seethalakshmi S. Polymerase Chain Reaction for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Lung India 1998; 1:150 – 154.
  3. Narasimhan R, Ilangho RP. Paper presentation – in National Conference in Respiratory Medicine titled `Transbronchial Lung Biopsy – A Retrospective Analysis`, Chennai, India, 1998.
  4. Narasimhan R, Ilangho RP, Mahadevan S. Case report – Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia, Lung India 1999; 1: 35-37.
  5. Narasimhan R, Gayathri AR, Ilangho RP. Transbronchial Lung Biopsy - A Retrospective Analysis. Pulmon 2004; 6:2:44-49.
  6. Ilangho RP, Jayaraman S. Case presentation – in National Conference in Respiratory Medicine titled `Rare Splenic Metastasis in Lung Cancer`- Ahmedabad, India, 2004.
  7. Ilangho RP, Jayaraman S. Case presentation – in National Conference in Respiratory Medicine titled `Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia-Critical and Pulmonary Care ` - Ahmedabad, India, 2004.
  8. Ilangho RP, Jayaraman S. Case Presentation -`Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma` in National Indian Bronchology Conference, New Delhi, India, 2005.
  9. Ilangho RP. REVIEW SERIES: Lung disease around the world: Lung health in India, Chronic Respiratory Disease; May 2007 4:107-110.
  10. Sharma M, Ilangho R.P.:“Role of fractional exhaled nitric oxide(FeNO) in 

                     obstructive airway diseases in Indian population.”European Respiratory Society,

                      International Congress, 2015.

  1.  ERS- European Respiratory Society --2017

        A] Evaluation of Asthma Control using ACQ & comparison  with GINA criteria

                Amarendra P ,Ilangho RP

            B} Risk factors in OSA

                Meghna,  Ilangho RP

    12. R Narasimhan,B Rajagopalan,C Chandrasekhar,R Velraj, Ilangho Rp et al

                  :Comprehensive Overview and Evidence Based Clinical Approach to Covid-  19 - An Official Consensus Statement Endorsed By Association of   

                  Pulmonologist of Tamilnadu,  Journal of Association of Pulmonologist of  Tamil Nadu  ;  20203(4):1.DOI: 10.4103/WKMP-0215.309207

                  

    13. VaseemaThabassum Shaik, Ilangho Rp, K Bhaskaran :Utility of Ariscat (Assess respiratory risk in surgical patients in catalonia) score in predicting postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing     

            elective/emergency surgery in a tertiary care Hospital in India.Journal of Association of Pulmonologist of Tamil Nadu, 2021; 4(3):94. DOI: 10.4103/japt.japt_38_21

     

 

Services
  • Bronchitis Treatment
  • Bronchitis Treatment
  • Bronchoscopy(Diagnostic & Therapeutic)
  • Pulmonary Function Test
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Body Plethysmography
  • Critical care medicine
  • Covid-19 & Post Covid Pulmonary Complications
  • Lung Transplantation
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Diagnostic & therapeutic bronchoscopy - EBUS - Airway stenting
  • Medical thoracoscopy
  • Asthma/COPD/Tuberculosis
  • Sleep Medicine - Diagnostic & therapeutic
  • End stage lung diseases.
Languages spoken

English,Hindi,Tamil,Telugu

Gender

male

Apollo Hospitals Greams Road Chennai

Apollo Hospitals 21, Greams Lane, Off Greams Road Chennai 600 006 Ph:044-28290200/3333, Chennai, Tamil Nadu - 600006

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