My Inspiration

Dr Stefano Gasparini

Dr. Stefano Gasparini is currently teaching at Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy. He has extended his valuable service as oncologist has been a recipient of many award and grants. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. His research interests reflect in his wide range of publications in various national and international journals.

Dr Henri Colt

Henri Colt is a writer, adventurer, and award-winning physician-educator. Among his interests are tango, mountaineering and movies. Colt has traveled to more than 100 countries. When not writing, lecturing, or accidentally overhearing conversations in local coffee shops, he, among other things, chases the impossible.

Dr Prashant Chhajed

Dr. Chhajed is a Chest Physician with super specialisation in Interventional Pulmonlogy and Sleep Disordered Breathing. He is also interested in interstitial lung disease and obstructive airways diseases. He was one of the first doctors in India to introduce EBUS and The Lung Care and Sleep Centre is founded by Dr. Prashant Chhajed.

Dr Sundeep Salvi

Sundeep Salvi is the Director of PURE Foundation in Pune. He trained as a Pulmonologist in India and received a PhD in Clinical Medicine from the University of Southampton, UK. He is actively involved in research in the field of COPD and Asthma and is currently exploring the Non-smoking phenotype of COPD in India, which he believes is more common than tobacco smoking, but has received little recognition globally.

Dr Raja Dhar

Dr Raja Dhar is a renowned Pulmonologist and a Critical Care Specialist with over 15 years of experience. Dr Dhar is adept in all disciplines of Respiratory Medicine. His forte is Interventional Pulmonology including electrocautery, APC, cryotherapy, stent placements and Medical Thoracoscopy. He is an academician, an enthusiastic researcher and passionate about teaching.

Dr Ashok Mahashur

Dr Ashok Mahashur is a Consultant Chest Physician currently based in Mumbai. With many years of clinical and teaching experience, he is also a postgraduate teacher of respiratory medicine at the University of Mumbai, as well as being a Member of the Board of Studies at the Banaras Hindu University. With more than 120 scientific and research publications, including contributions to several medical books.

Dr Irfan Rahman

Irfan Rahman, PhD is a Dean’s Professor of Environmental Medicine, Medicine (Pulmonary), Public Health Sciences, and Dentistry at the University of Rochester, Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. He has chaired and participated in numerous symposia and published over 270 peer-reviewed research original articles (H-index 92), reviews, and was invited to write chapters in textbooks and editorials in various journals in understanding the pathogenesis and therapeutic targets of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), fibrosis, and oral/periodontal diseases.

Dr Rajeev Goyal

Dr Rajiv Goyal is a renowned Interventional Pulmonologist and Critical care specialist, with an experience of 23 years in Jaipur Golden Hospital. He has vast experience in Interventional Pulmonology procedures including Foreign body extraction, Electrocautery, Cryotherapy, EBUS, Stenting. He is a national expert in the International Pulmonary Group conducting workshops and conferences on various aspects. He is a Gold medalist in DTDC, amongst the first few doctors to get European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine. He has several publications in national and international journals.



Dr Atul Mehta

Atul C. Mehta, M.B.B.S., special interests are the treatment of lung cancer, diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy, lung transplantation, interstitial lung diseases and pulmonary hypertension. He is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. Dr Mehta’s research interests are therapeutic bronchoscopy, lung transplantation and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.