• In the field of Nephrology and renal transplantation from 2017.
• Teaching experience @SGPGIMS – (14.9.2017 – 8.1.2022).
• Performed more than 100 tunneled cuffed catheter insertion, more than 400 native kidney biopsies and more than 200 graft kidney biopsies.
• Actively involved in pre and post transplant management of 110 renal transplants (40 ABO incompatible). Trained in Transplant immunology in the HLA lab, Nephrology department, SGPGIMS.
• One of the active team member in performing first swap renal transplant, first robotic recipient renal transplant in SGPGIMS
• Working as a consultant Nephrologist and Renal transplant physician from
  March 2022 at KG Hospital, Coimbatore

Academic achievements
GOLD MEDALS:

• Dr A Jothipandian Gold medal in Ophthalmology (2011)
• Dr A Jesudoss and Dr K Balasubramaniam Gold medal in Otorhinolaryngology (2011)
• Savithri Nageswaran Memorial Gold medal in General surgery (2012)

Academic excellence (MD General medicine):

• First prize in poster presentation – APICON 2016 , Hyderabad (APICON 2014 Ludhiana Original paper Merit Award – “Refractory hypokalemia – Is it Giltelman or Type III Bartter’s ?”
• First place in Quiz competition – Cardiology (Dr Arun Kusugal Memorial Quiz competition – Manipal Cardiology Update – 2015)
• First place in STATE level ISHBT Quiz competition, HEMATOCON (5th ISHBT National Hematology Quiz competition , Nov 2015)
• Second place in ZONAL level ISHBT Quiz competition, HEMATOCON (5th ISHBT National Hematology Quiz competition , Nov 2015).
• First prize in Hematology QUIZ in post graduate CME in hematology – CMC
  Vellore 2016

1. “A case of Plasmodium vivid malaria with Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia – 5 th Annual conference of Clinical Infectious disease Society (CIDSCON) Aug 2015.
2. “Methemoglobinemia – A Case report” – 3rd International Non communicable Disease Research meet – Manipal Chapter – 2015.
3. “Assessing Risk factors for Development of Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalised patients and clinical impact of CDI and associated complications on Outcome among inpatients – KAPICON 2016”.
4. “Pregnancy and Refractory hypokalemia – Type III Barrter – An Approach to hypokaemia and metabolic alkalosis?” – APICON 2016 (presented in interesting case session).
5. “Diagnostic utility and clinical correlation of anti dsDNA and antinucleosomal
   antibodies in SLE” – IRACON 2017.
6. “Clinicopathologic Spectrum of Biopsy proven renal cortical necrosis and its outcome in a Tertiary care centre from Northern India” – ISNCON 2020.
7. Inferior Outcomes of Biopsy proven rejection in ABO incompatible renal transplants- A Case control study (ISOT 2021).
8. “BEST ORAL PAPER AWARD – ISNCON 2021 National conference held at chennai” – A Propensity score matched analysis of Biopsy proven acute rejection in ABO incompatible renal transplant when compared with ABO compatible renal transplants.

1. “Outcomes of Biopsy proven acute rejection in ABO incompatible renal transplant compared with propensity matched cohort of ABO compatible renal transplants” – presented in ASN (American society of Nephrology) Week 2020.
2. Renal allograft cortical necrosis – A disappearing entity in Live renal transplantation. WCN (World Congress of Nephrology) 2022 Malaysia.
3. Coexistence of BKV nephropathy with Acute rejection in renal transplantation – A case series from a single centre- WCN (World Congress of Nephrology) 2022 Malaysia.
4. WCN 2023, Thailand – Poster presented “A SINGLE CENTRE TWO-DECADE EXPERIENCE ON CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV) DISEASE IN POST-RENALTRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS – GUT INVASIVE COMPARTMENTALIZED CMV, AN UNDER-RECOGNISED ENTITY?”
5. ORAL PRESENTATION IN ERA CONGRESSS, EUROPEAN RENAL ASSOCIATION, MILAN 2023, ITALY WITH TRAVEL GRANT – “ CHRONIC CMV DIARRHOEA IN RENAL TRANPLANT RECIPIENTS – AN UNDERRECOGNISED SPECTRUM OF COMPARTMETALISED GUT INVASIVE CMV DISEASE”.

• Cleared European Speciality Certificate examination in Nephrology – 2023
• Conferred with Fellow of American Society of Nephrology (FASN) – 2023
• Winner of ISN (International society of Nephrology) Community film EVENT 2023 in World Congress of Nephrology, Thailand – “Hope sustains life”
• Fellow in GlomCon – Class of 2023
• NSMC (Nephrology Social Media Collaborative) intern – Class of 2023
• Active Participant in ERA (European Renal Association) – EDTA Young Nephrologists “MENTOR- MENTEE programme” – Mentee under Prof Piergiorgio Messa, Local Secretary ERA congress 2023, and Also secretary of Italian Society of nephrology.
• Member of ISN (International society of Nephrology) – ACT committee under Trial design and Patient engagement subgroups
• Appointed as Visual abstract editor in Indian Journal of Transplantation
• Awarded three international travel grants for “ISN WCN 2023, Thailand; ISN WCN 2024 Argentina; ERA-EDTA 2023 Milan, Itlay.

REVIEW ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

1. Book chapter – CKD of unknown aetiology – API TEXTBOOK – CKD (ESRD) 2020.
2. Author – Renovascular hypertension – Clinical Key; Elseiver Point of Care(India).
3. Author – Pregnancy and Kidney disease – Clinical Key; Elseiver Point of Care (India).
4. Book chapter in “Cardiovascular and Kidney disease in Geriatric population In developing countries” – Dialysis modality in elderly HD Vs PD (Cambridge PRESS).
5. Author – Class IV Lupus nephritis, in book titled “Grand rounds in Nephrology”.

ORCID ID : https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-2466-3701

    1.Evanescing renal allograft cortical necrosis from living donor renal transplantation: A lesson learned over two decades

Journal : Transplant Immunology

2022-04 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2022.101558 Part of ISSN: 0966-3274

Impact factor : 1.979

   2. The diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma of the co-existence of BK virus nephropathy with acute rejection – an experience from a single Centre and review of the literature.

Journal :Transplant Immunology

2022-03 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2022.101581 Part of ISSN: 0966-3274

Impact factor : 1.979

    3. Co-existence of acute pancreatitis with hemolytic uremic syndrome: “The dilemma of a rare organ cross-talk”

Journal : Pancreatology

2022-06 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pan.2022.06.255 Part of ISSN: 1424-3903

Impact factor : 3.996

   4. Liver stiffness is reduced to normal after successful renal transplantation: A prospective cohort study.

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology

2022-06 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jceh.2022.06.002 Part of ISSN: 0973-6883

Impact factor : 2.466

   5. Outcome of mild SARS-CoV-2-infected renal transplant recipients managed by supervised home-based self-monitoring.

Journal : Infectious Diseases Now

2022-06 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.idnow.2022.05.007 Part of ISSN: 2666-9919

  6. Hypertension as a Risk Factor for Chronic Kidney Disease

Journal : Hypertension Journal

2018 | journal-article
DOI: 10.15713/ins.johtn.0104 Part of ISSN: 2454-5996 Part of ISSN: 2455-4987

   7. Aetiology, management, and outcome of lower respiratory tract infection in renal allograft recipients – A report from a tropical country.

Journal : Lung India

2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_99_22
Part of ISSN: 0970-2113

   8. “Inferior long-term graft survival of biopsy- proven acute rejections in ABO-incompatible kidney transplants as compared to propensity score-matched ABO compatible transplants.” (First author, Under Peer review in Transplant Immunology).

• Reviewer in Indian Journal of Transplantation, Indian Journal of Nephrology.
• Reviewer in reputed, high impact factor, nephrology journals like NDT, CKJ.
• Reviewer and Author in Elsevier Point of Care (Clinical Key) – Nephrology.
• Visual abstract Editor in Indian Journal of Transplantation

International travel grants:

• Awarded travel grant for (World Congress of Nephrology )WCN 2023, Thailand for presenting a poster titled “A single centre two-decade experience on Cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease in post-renal transplant recipients – Gut invasive compartmentalized CMV, an under-recognised entity?”
• Awarded travel grant for (World Congress of Nephrology)WCN 2024, Argentina for “winning the ISN community film event”.
• Awarded travel grant for (European Renal Association) ERA EDTA 2023, Milan, Italy for presenting a moderated oral paper.