Dr. Rajesh K Chawla — Senior Consultant in Delhi NCR

Dr. Rajesh K Chawla is a Senior Consultant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi NCR, with more than 32 years of experience. His profile records pulmonology together with critical care medicine and sleep medicine.

His list covers all three. The procedural work is diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy, airway stenting and medical pleural procedures. The medical work covers severe asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis, complex pulmonary infection and drug-resistant tuberculosis, and the sleep work obstructive sleep apnea evaluation and CPAP titration.

He holds MBBS and an MD in pulmonology, and three further qualifications that sit on the critical care side: the FCCM of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the FCCP of the American College of Chest Physicians, and the European Diploma in Intensive Care. Two American fellowships and a European diploma, two of them in intensive care rather than respiratory medicine, explain why critical care is named on his profile as a specialty in its own right.

His standing in that field is recorded directly. He was President of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine from 2010 to 2012, and he received the President Citation Award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine in the USA.

Holding the presidency of the national critical care society for a two-year term, and being cited by its American counterpart, places his work beyond his own unit. He practises at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in Delhi.