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Dr. Harshith R.
Assistant Professor
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School
Medical College
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Department
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Harshith Rao is an expert Pulmonologist and Critical care physician with over 7 years of experience. He completed his MBBS from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and moved to Chandigarh to pursue his higher medical education MD Internal Medicine and DM Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine from the prestigious Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER, Chandigarh), which is one of the premier institutes in the country for postgraduate medical education and a WHO collaborating center for research & capacity building in chronic respiratory diseases. There after he honed his skills in the field of Interventional Pulmonology including advanced bronchoscopies which are novel ways to treat complex pulmonary diseases at PGIMER, trained by renowned pulmonologists of India and he also acquired the training in diagnosing and treatment (targeted and Immunotherapy) of Lung cancers
Qualifications
- European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine
European Respiratory Society, 2022
- DM Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 2020
- MNAMS
National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), New Delhi, 2019
- DNB General Medicine
National Board of Examinations (NBE), New Delhi, 2018
- MD Internal Medicine
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 2017
- MBBS
Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), Bangalore, 2014
- Passed MRCP (UK) 1 and 2 examinations
Awaiting PACES examination (pursuing)
Experience
Total Years of Experience7 Years 11 Months
Academic Experience
- 6 years 7 months of teaching, clinical and research experience in PGIMER, Chandigarh
- 1 year 4 months of teaching, clinical and research experience in Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore
- Interventional Pulmonology
- Interstitial Lung Diseases
- Uncontrolled Asthma
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- Sleep-related Breathing Disorders
- Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- Thoracic Oncology
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Long-term Oxygen & Bi-PAP Therapy
- Merit Award for securing rank in Pharmacology final examinations for the University (RGUHS, Bangalore) in MBBS
- Hand Hygiene role model award in ICU by Hospital infection control committee (PGIMER, Chandigarh)
- Involved as one of the rapporteur in one of the four committees to formulate, organize new evidences and update the existing national guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases
- Committee member for organizing 32nd, 33rd, and 34th Annual update in Pulmonary and critical care medicine, PGIMER
- Development of barrier enclosure device used during the COVID-19 pandemic to decrease the risk of exposure to health-care workers while bronchoscopy/EBUS and its modification to sample difficult to access lesions
- Biswal M, Zaman K, Suri V, Rao H, Kumar A, Kapur G, Sharma N, Bhalla A, Jayashree M. Use of eschar for the molecular diagnosis and genotypic characterisation of Orientia tsutsugamushi causing scrub typhus. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology. 2018 Jul 1;36(3):422.
- Suri V, Rao HR, Bhalla A, et al. 1475. Etiology and Outcome of Fever and Respiratory Distress in Adult Patients Presenting to Medical Emergency in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018;5:S456-S457
- Kumari, S., Suri, V., Rao, H. R., Bhalla, A., Singh, I., Singh, M. P., Biswal, M., Goyal, K., Zaman, K., & Ratho, R. K. (2019). 1684. Clinical Profile and Outcome of Scrub Typhus-Related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Adults Presenting to a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 6:S616–S617.
- Rao, Harshith; Chhabria, Bharath A; Dhooria, Sahajal; Muthu, Valliappan; Agarwal, Ritesh; Sehgal, Inderpaul Singh. Barrier enclosure device to sample difficult to access lesions by endobronchial ultrasound during the pandemic. Lung India 39(3):p 308-309, May–Jun 2022. | DOI: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_737_21
- The factors which predict the etiology and mortality in adult patients presenting with acute febrile illness and ARDS to a tertiary care hospital of north India: an observational study. (under publication)
- A rare case of cardiac intra-cavitary metastasis from a lung cancer: A case report and review of literature (under publication)
- To evaluate the clinical and laboratory parameters that predict the responsiveness to glucocorticoid treatment in patients with interstitial lung diseases (DM Thesis dissertation, yet to be published)
- Member of Indian Chest Society (ICS)
- Member of National College of Chest Physicians (NCCP)
- Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS)
- Member of European Respiratory Society (ERS)
- Member of Indian Association of Bronchology (IAB)
- Member of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)
- Member of Indian Society for Study of Lung Cancer (ISSLC)
- Member of Indian Society for Sleep Research (ISSR)
- Member of the Association of Physicians of India (API)
- Member of All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA)
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