Leading Rheumatologist in Hyderabad

Field(s) of Expertise

• Management of Musculoskeletal and Autoimmune Disease

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus(SLE)

• Inflammatory Myositis

• Vasculitis

• Pediatric Rheumatic diseases like Juvenile Arthritis, Juvenile Lupus, and Juvenile Myositis

• Autoinflammatory Diseases and Primary Immune Deficiencies

• Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Spondylo Arthritis

• Psoriatic Arthritis

• Septic Arthritis

• Sarcoidosis

• Osteoporosis

• Back and neck pain

Special Interest and Expertise:

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

• Pregnancy in Rheumatic Diseases

• Myositis

• Inflammatory Eye Diseases

• Rheumatoid Arthritis

Publications

• Published correspondence on ‘Rituximab as a therapy to induce remission after relapse in ANCA-associated vasculitis’ in Annals of Rheumatic Disease, October 2020

• Presented a paper on “Lupus nephritis flare in pregnancy” at SLE in pregnancy webinar organized by Society of Obstetric Medicine, India, November 2020

• Presented posters on “Efficacy and Safety of Adalimumab biosimilars in Spondyloarthritis” and “Bullous lupus – case series” at IRACON, 2019 at JIPMER, Puducherry

• Part of organizing committee for “World Lupus Day: Patient awareness program” held in May 2021

• Published paper on “Clinico-etiological profile of patients with acute confusional state” in International journal of advanced medicine, March 2019

• Published a paper on “Blood pressure response to azilsartan in hypertensive patients” in IJCMR, June 2017

• Best Free Paper Award on “Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis – case series” at IACMCON held at Kolkata in October 2017

• Presented poster on “Clinical Profile of cryptococcal meningitis” at APICON, 2017 held in Mumbai

Education

• DM (Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology) - Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad (2018 to 2021)

• MD (General Medicine) - Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad (2015 to 2018)

• MBBS - Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad (2008 to 2014)

Fellow/Membership

• Indian Rheumatology Association – Hyderabad Chapter