Dr. Vimi Varghese — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Vimi Varghese is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 12 years of experience. Her profile records pulmonology together with lung transplant surgery.

Her list is narrow and matches that pairing: lung transplantation, bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound and transbronchial needle aspiration.

Her training is almost entirely transplant medicine. She took her MD in pulmonary medicine at MGMCRI in Puducherry in 2018 and a post-doctoral fellowship in pulmonology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, in 2020. Her fellowship in adult lung transplantation was at University Hospital Leuven in 2022, and her fellowship in pediatric lung transplantation at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne in 2025. Separate fellowships in adult and paediatric transplantation, taken in two countries, cover both ends of the age range in a field where few centres do either.

The same year at the Alfred Hospital gave her specialist training in pulmonary hypertension, with exposure to pulmonary hypertension clinics and advanced PAH therapies under Prof. Trevor Williams. Pulmonary hypertension is one of the conditions that leads to transplantation, so that attachment sits directly alongside the rest of her training.

She also holds the Fellowship of the Asia Pacific Society of Respirology and the European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine, both taken in 2020.

Alongside Gleneagles Healthcity at Perumbakkam she has been affiliated with Yashoda Hospitals in Hyderabad, Naruvi Super Speciality Hospital and Christian Medical College in Vellore. She is faculty and a contributor at national and international conferences on lung transplantation and interventional pulmonology.