Pulmonologist
13+ Years Experience
MD (Pulmonology), IDCC (Critical Care), FSM (Sleep Medicine), FCCP
Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil
MON-SAT
Dr Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty is a Senior Interventional and Clinical Pulmonologist at Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. He’s currently the Director of Interventional Pulmonology Services. His uniqueness is he has additional sub specialisation in the fields of Critical care and Sleep medicine. He’s one of the first Pulmonologist in the country to get certification in the field of Sleep Medicine through ISDA (Indian Sleep Disorders Association) in the year 2011.
He’s an exceptionally talented dynamic interventional pulmonologist. He’s the first to start Complete EBUS program (Linear and Radial together) in the city of Hyderabad and thus in the state of Telangana. His Thoracoscopy kills are excellent and he’s known for his advanced multi portal Thoracoscopic interventions for various pleural diseases like Recurrent pneumothorax, multi loculated Empyema and Lung biopsy. He’s often called as Pulmonary surgeon by his various colleagues. He’s one of the few in the world who have mastered LASER application in the airway. His other interests are EBUS, Cryo lung biopsy, Airway stenting , Flexible and Rigid Bronchoscopy.
With most of the chronic lung ailments, patients have to use medications and other interventions for life long. Dr Vijay is known for his empathetic approach towards them and addresses patients and their family needs with his unique style of detailed listening and rendering his services tailored to the individual clients. Pulmonary Rehabilitation is his one special interest where in he works in association with Apollo Life team to deliver state of art rehabilitation services. Through this world class program, hundreds of COPD and ILD patients got benefited.
FSM – Sleep Medicine (2010-2011)IDCC – Critical care (2009-2010)MD – Pulmonology (2005-2008) MBBS – 1998 to 2004
Registration No: 51920
Indian Society of Critical Care MedicineEuropean Respiratory Society (ERS)European Society of Critical Care Medicine (ESCCM)Society of Minimal Invasive Thoracic Surgeons (SMITS)American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)Indian Sleep Disorders Association (ISDA )
Tutor, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, July 2008 – December 2008Senior Registrar, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai, January 2009 – December 2009Registrar cum Junior Consultant, Department of Critical Care Medicine & Intensive Care Services, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, 2010 – 2011Consultant Pulmonologist & Sleep Disorder Specialist, Yashoda Hospital, Malakpet, 2011 – 2013Interventional Pulmonologist & Sleep Disorder Specialist, Citizens Hospital, Hyderabad, 2013 – 2015Presently Working in Apollo Hospitals Jublee hills, Hyd since Jan 2015
Conducted Thoracoscopy, Bronchoscopy EBUS, sleep workshops on animal models at various centres in AP & TelenganaOrganised & Chaired an International Conference, ASPIRE 2016, ASPIRE 2018Organised an National Conference on Sleep Disorders – Sleepcon -2015Actively participated on media to increase the public awareness on common & important health problems like Sleep Apnea, Asthma, Smoking, COPD & Pollution related health hazards.
Interventional pulmonology (TBNA, TBLB, EBUS-Linear, EBUS-Radial, various Thoracosopic procedures (like Pleural Biopsy, Pleurodesis, Adhesionolysis, Lung Biopsy), Endo bronchial procedures like balloon tracheoplasty & bronchoplasty, Endobronchial Las
Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, G Ravindra Babu, N Usharani, &ldquo Interferon gamma in Tuberculous Pleural Effusions&rdquo . Paper presented in Ninth National Pulmonology Conference at P. G. I. , Chandigarh NAPCON, 2007& Published in proceedings. Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, G Ravindra Babu, paper on &ldquo Interesting case report of Cryptococcal fungal infection Presenting as SPN&rdquo in Vizag Chest Club August 20th 2007, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, Gurpreeth Singh, Raghavendra D. S. , paper on &ldquo Audit of VAP in a ICU of a Community Health Hospital&rdquo (Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai). Paper presented at International Critical Care Congress & 16th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine Hyderabad, 2010. Vijay C, G Ravindra Babu, N Usharani, A Giant Syphillitic Aneurysm in a Young Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seroposotive individual: The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences 2009 51:245-247. Author of POSITIE AIRWAY PRESSURE THERAPY, CHAPTER the book titled SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING. by Dr VIVEK NANGIA & Dr SHIVANI SWAMIPresented various research papers & posters in various international conferences like, WABIP, ATS, ERS. Co-author of various chapters in few textbooks of sleep medicine. Thoracoscopic removal of Intrapieural Foreign Body-Lung India (DUE for Publication)Vijay K Chennamchetty, Raghavendra Rao MV, Abrar A Khan, Dilip Mathai, Tiara Calvo Leon, Pamphil Igman, Surekha Bhat and Sanjay Kumar Agarwal presented at Scientist-Emeritus and Director of Central Research Laboratory, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Hyderabad, Telangana, India on Death and Grief of Viral Myocarditis and Exciting Portrayal of Viruses. Vijaya C, Raghavendra Rao M. V, Abrar A khan, Badam Aruna Kumari , Mohammed Khaleel , Mohammed Ismail Nizami , Jithendra K. Naik , Mahendra Kumar Verma has presented on Parasitic Lung Diseases Death and Dilemma at International Journal of Open Medicine and surgery. An indigenous substitute for peptone as the basic ingredient of culture media presented by Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, Raghavendra Rao M. V, Raja Rajeswari M, S. P. Pallavi, Dilip Mathai, Mahendra Kumar Verma. Removal of a needle from the pleural space by video assisted throcoscopy: An unusual encounter in practice written by Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, Jayasri Helen Gali, Shekar Reddy Gurrala , Nayantara Rao Gandra. Vijay K. Chennamchetty, M. V. Raghavendra Rao , Dilip Mathai , Mahendra Kumar Verma , Tiara Calvo Leon , Pamphil Igman , Surekha Bhat, Mohammad Ismail Nizami , Sanjay Kumar Agarwal , Lakshmi Hitesh Billa, Abrar A. Khan presented on the The Portrayal of Microbes in Respiratory Medicine. Reviewed article on Immunity in Medically Important Parasitic Infections with Rao RMV, khaleel M, Rao S, Khan A, Calvo T, Nisanth AM, Kudari, Dilip Mathai R and Verma MK, at Scientist-Emeritus and Director Central Research laboratory, Apollo institute of Medical Sciences and Research, India. Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, Raghavendra Rao M V, Srinivasa Rao D and Dilip Mathai presented on Management of Immune Responses to Bacterial Infection. Chennamchetty Vijay Kumar, Raghavendra Rao MV, Siva Anoop Yella, Mohammed Khaleel, YK Verma, Srinivasa Rao D, Adarsh Meher Nisanth, Dilip Mathai, Abrar A Khan and Reshma Fatteh reviewed article on Is Brain Aggression a Mystery Presented on the The Role of Immunity in Fighting and Checking the Spread of Viral Diseases.
Pulmonologist
13+ Years Experience
MD (Pulmonology), IDCC (Critical Care), FSM (Sleep Medicine), FCCP
English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil
MON-SAT
-
Dr Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty is a Senior Interventional and Clinical Pulmonologist at Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. He’s currently the Director of Interventional Pulmonology Services. His uniqueness is he has additional sub specialisation in the fields of Critical care and Sleep medicine. He’s one of the first Pulmonologist in the country to get certification in the field of Sleep Medicine through ISDA (Indian Sleep Disorders Association) in the year 2011.
He’s an exceptionally talented dynamic interventional pulmonologist. He’s the first to start Complete EBUS program (Linear and Radial together) in the city of Hyderabad and thus in the state of Telangana. His Thoracoscopy kills are excellent and he’s known for his advanced multi portal Thoracoscopic interventions for various pleural diseases like Recurrent pneumothorax, multi loculated Empyema and Lung biopsy. He’s often called as Pulmonary surgeon by his various colleagues. He’s one of the few in the world who have mastered LASER application in the airway. His other interests are EBUS, Cryo lung biopsy, Airway stenting , Flexible and Rigid Bronchoscopy.
With most of the chronic lung ailments, patients have to use medications and other interventions for life long. Dr Vijay is known for his empathetic approach towards them and addresses patients and their family needs with his unique style of detailed listening and rendering his services tailored to the individual clients. Pulmonary Rehabilitation is his one special interest where in he works in association with Apollo Life team to deliver state of art rehabilitation services. Through this world class program, hundreds of COPD and ILD patients got benefited.
FSM – Sleep Medicine (2010-2011)IDCC – Critical care (2009-2010)MD – Pulmonology (2005-2008) MBBS – 1998 to 2004
Registration No: 51920
Indian Society of Critical Care MedicineEuropean Respiratory Society (ERS)European Society of Critical Care Medicine (ESCCM)Society of Minimal Invasive Thoracic Surgeons (SMITS)American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)Indian Sleep Disorders Association (ISDA )
Tutor, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, July 2008 – December 2008Senior Registrar, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai, January 2009 – December 2009Registrar cum Junior Consultant, Department of Critical Care Medicine & Intensive Care Services, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, 2010 – 2011Consultant Pulmonologist & Sleep Disorder Specialist, Yashoda Hospital, Malakpet, 2011 – 2013Interventional Pulmonologist & Sleep Disorder Specialist, Citizens Hospital, Hyderabad, 2013 – 2015Presently Working in Apollo Hospitals Jublee hills, Hyd since Jan 2015
Conducted Thoracoscopy, Bronchoscopy EBUS, sleep workshops on animal models at various centres in AP & TelenganaOrganised & Chaired an International Conference, ASPIRE 2016, ASPIRE 2018Organised an National Conference on Sleep Disorders – Sleepcon -2015Actively participated on media to increase the public awareness on common & important health problems like Sleep Apnea, Asthma, Smoking, COPD & Pollution related health hazards.
Interventional pulmonology (TBNA, TBLB, EBUS-Linear, EBUS-Radial, various Thoracosopic procedures (like Pleural Biopsy, Pleurodesis, Adhesionolysis, Lung Biopsy), Endo bronchial procedures like balloon tracheoplasty & bronchoplasty, Endobronchial Las
Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, G Ravindra Babu, N Usharani, &ldquo Interferon gamma in Tuberculous Pleural Effusions&rdquo . Paper presented in Ninth National Pulmonology Conference at P. G. I. , Chandigarh NAPCON, 2007& Published in proceedings. Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, G Ravindra Babu, paper on &ldquo Interesting case report of Cryptococcal fungal infection Presenting as SPN&rdquo in Vizag Chest Club August 20th 2007, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, Gurpreeth Singh, Raghavendra D. S. , paper on &ldquo Audit of VAP in a ICU of a Community Health Hospital&rdquo (Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai). Paper presented at International Critical Care Congress & 16th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine Hyderabad, 2010. Vijay C, G Ravindra Babu, N Usharani, A Giant Syphillitic Aneurysm in a Young Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seroposotive individual: The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences 2009 51:245-247. Author of POSITIE AIRWAY PRESSURE THERAPY, CHAPTER the book titled SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING. by Dr VIVEK NANGIA & Dr SHIVANI SWAMIPresented various research papers & posters in various international conferences like, WABIP, ATS, ERS. Co-author of various chapters in few textbooks of sleep medicine. Thoracoscopic removal of Intrapieural Foreign Body-Lung India (DUE for Publication)Vijay K Chennamchetty, Raghavendra Rao MV, Abrar A Khan, Dilip Mathai, Tiara Calvo Leon, Pamphil Igman, Surekha Bhat and Sanjay Kumar Agarwal presented at Scientist-Emeritus and Director of Central Research Laboratory, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Hyderabad, Telangana, India on Death and Grief of Viral Myocarditis and Exciting Portrayal of Viruses. Vijaya C, Raghavendra Rao M. V, Abrar A khan, Badam Aruna Kumari , Mohammed Khaleel , Mohammed Ismail Nizami , Jithendra K. Naik , Mahendra Kumar Verma has presented on Parasitic Lung Diseases Death and Dilemma at International Journal of Open Medicine and surgery. An indigenous substitute for peptone as the basic ingredient of culture media presented by Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, Raghavendra Rao M. V, Raja Rajeswari M, S. P. Pallavi, Dilip Mathai, Mahendra Kumar Verma. Removal of a needle from the pleural space by video assisted throcoscopy: An unusual encounter in practice written by Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, Jayasri Helen Gali, Shekar Reddy Gurrala , Nayantara Rao Gandra. Vijay K. Chennamchetty, M. V. Raghavendra Rao , Dilip Mathai , Mahendra Kumar Verma , Tiara Calvo Leon , Pamphil Igman , Surekha Bhat, Mohammad Ismail Nizami , Sanjay Kumar Agarwal , Lakshmi Hitesh Billa, Abrar A. Khan presented on the The Portrayal of Microbes in Respiratory Medicine. Reviewed article on Immunity in Medically Important Parasitic Infections with Rao RMV, khaleel M, Rao S, Khan A, Calvo T, Nisanth AM, Kudari, Dilip Mathai R and Verma MK, at Scientist-Emeritus and Director Central Research laboratory, Apollo institute of Medical Sciences and Research, India. Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty, Raghavendra Rao M V, Srinivasa Rao D and Dilip Mathai presented on Management of Immune Responses to Bacterial Infection. Chennamchetty Vijay Kumar, Raghavendra Rao MV, Siva Anoop Yella, Mohammed Khaleel, YK Verma, Srinivasa Rao D, Adarsh Meher Nisanth, Dilip Mathai, Abrar A Khan and Reshma Fatteh reviewed article on Is Brain Aggression a Mystery Presented on the The Role of Immunity in Fighting and Checking the Spread of Viral Diseases.
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