Since October 2007

I have been working as a Consultant Nephrologist in Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.

February 2003 to October 2007

 I worked as a Staff Physician and  deputy to the Head of  Clinical  service Division with National Kidney Foundation, Singapore

July 2002 to January 2003

I worked as a Renal Fellow in Department of Renal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.

June 1999 to June 2002

Assistant Professor and Head of the Dept of Nephrology , PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Consultant Nephrologist at PSG Hospitals, Coimbatore, India .

August 1997 to April 1999

Consultant Nephrologist, Coimbatore Kidney Centre, Coimbatore, India.

April 1995 to April 1997(Registrar training in nephrology)

August 1994 to March 1995

Assistant Professor of Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, Coimbatore  - India

OTHER COURSES:

• Had done a ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor course in Singapore in July 2004
• Participated in a workshop on Faculty Research Methodology  at Christian Medical College,Vellore,India in April 2001
• Done a training course on Teaching/Learning from Dept. of Medical Education, PSGIMS & R , Coimbatore, India, in February 2000
• Financial Management for Non Finance Managers 17-19^th Jan 2007 at Singapore Institute of Management,Singapore

TEACHING EXPERIENCES:

1.Actively involved in training programmes and advanced courses on Dialysis practices for nurses in National Kidney Foundation, Singapore,since 2003.

2.Worked as an Assistant Professor of Nephrology in P.S.G.I.M&R for 3 years from 1999 to 2002 teaching undergraduate and post graduate medical students

3.Worked as an Assistant Professor of General Medicine in in P.S.G.I.M&R for 8 months from August 1994 to March 1995, teaching undergraduate medical students

Papers Presented

• Our Experience with OKT3 in Steroid Resistant Acute Rejections in Post Renal Transplant Recipients – presented in INDIAN SOCIETY OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION CONFERENCE 1997 at Chennai,India

• Clinical and Doppler Evaluation of Renal Allograft Dysfunction in Renal transplant recipients – presented at INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE 1997 at Calcutta,India

• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in post cardiac surgery patients – presented in SOUTHERN CHAPTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE 1996 at Bangalore,India

• Changing Spectrum of Primary Glomerulonephritis – Retrospective Study – presented in SOUTHERN CHAPTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE 1996 at Bangalore,India.

• Donor Kidney Biopsy – Prospective analysis – presented in SOUTHERN CHAPTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE 1997 at Kottayam,India.

• Renal Transplant in Children – Our Experience – presented in SOUTHERN CHAPTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE 1997 at Hyderabad,India

• Our experience with Cadaver Renal Transplantation – INDIAN SOCIETY OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION CONFERENCE 1997 at Chennai,India

• Skin Manifestations in Chronic Renal Failure – presented in SOUTH ZONE CONFERENCE OF IADVL 2000 at Trivandrum ,India

• Efficacy and Safety of  Low Dose Intravenous Iron in ESRD patients—presented at the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY Renal Week 2004,  St.Louis, Missouri,USA

• Impact of Hepatitis B Surface Antigenaemia(HbsAg) on survival of hemodialysis patients--- presented at the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY Renal Week 2004, St.Louis, Missouri,USA