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Dr Battu Chaithanya
DTCD, DNB(Resp.diseases)
Work Experience
12 yrs+
Registration No
56196
Language
English, हिंदी, తెలుగు
Location
Apollo Health City Jubilee Hills
Speciality And Areas Of Interest
- Lung transplantation(Preoperative evaluation, management and post operative follow up, stabilising patients enrolled for lung transplantation, including pulmonary rehabilitation)
- Advanced lung diseases like Interstitial lung diseases, Pulmonary artery Hypertension, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung fibrosis EBUS (Radial and Linear )
- Interventional Pulmonology(Bronchoscopy TBLB, TBNA, EBUS,Laser
- Sleep Medicine
- Thoracic Oncology(Lung Cancer)
- Respiratory Critical Care
- Pediatric Pulmonology
- Interstitial Lung diseases.
Work Experience
- Consultant Pulmonologist & Intensivist , Head of department of Pulmonology, Incharge of DNB Pulmonology(PG teaching program) Mediciti Hospital from 2013-2017.
- Chief intensivist in Deccan Hospital, Somajiguda from 2012-2013.
- Consultant Pulmonologistin DDH & RC from 2009 to 2013.
- Visiting Lung Transplantation fellow at Toronto General Hospital,Canada in June 2018.
- Trained in lung transplantation at Toronto General Hospital ,University Health Network, Canada.
- Presently working in Apollo Hospitals as Consultant interventional and transplant pulmonologist since last Assignment.
Awards and Achievements
- Part of lung transplant team which performed first successful lung transplantation at Apollo Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.
- Organising chair of First International conference on Lung Transplantation at Hyderabad by Apollo Hospitals in association with Montefoire Medical Center.
- Organising secretary of ASPIRE 2018, Apollos annual lung congress.
- Recepient of DR. Rajagopalan gold medal for best out going post graduate from NTR University of health sciences.
Research and Publications
- Co-Guide for disserttation titled Pleuro Pulmonary manifestations in CKD
- Co-Guide for disserttation titled Profile of ICd Patients
- Co-Guide for research Clinical, Radiological, biochemical, microbiological profile of AECOPD
- Principal investigater Clinical research trials in Mediciti research cell
Professional Memberships and Certifications
- Member of European Respiratory Society
- Member of American Thoracic Society
- Member of South East Asian Academy of Sleep Medicine
- Member of World Association of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology
- Member of National college of chest physicians(NCCP)
- Memeber of International society for heart and lung transplantation ( ISHLT )
