Dr Rohan K Aurangabadwalla

About Doctor :

Expertise :

• Pulmonology
• Asthma
• COPD
• ILD
• Tuberculosis
• Lung Infections
• COVID
• Interventional Pulmonology
• Endobronchial Ultrasound (Ebus)
• Thoracoscopy - Medical
• Rigid Bronchoscopy
• Sleep Medicine
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Past Experience :

• Rotating Internship from 27th February 2006 to 26th February 2007 at the B.Y.L Nair Hospital Mumbai. (Including rotation in Medicine, General Surgery, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Respiratory medicine, etc.)
• Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at Terna Medical College & Hospital, Nerul, Navi Mumbai from July 2011-July 2012.
• Senior Registrar in Intensive Care Unit, Fortis Hospital, Mulund, Mumbai from 21st January 2012 to 7th March 2013.
• Senior Registrar, in the Department of Pulmonology, Interventional Pulmonology and Critical care at Apollo Hospital, Bangalore from 21st March 2013 to 31st January 2014
• Associate Consultant, in the Department of Pulmonology, Interventional Pulmonology and Critical care at Apollo Hospital, Bangalore from 1st February 2014 to 23rd April 2016.
• Observership in Interventional Pulmonology at the Respiratory Institute, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA for 4 weeks in May 2016
• Junior Consultant, in the Department of Pulmonology at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai from 1st August 2016 to 31st July 2017.
• Full-time Consultant, in the Department of Pulmonology at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai
• Training in Sleep at the Department of Sleep Medicine Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA for 4 weeks in June 2019.

Research Experience:

• Worked as a Co-Investigator in a Phase II a, Open Label Study to Determine the Early Bactericidal, Extended Early Bactericidal Activity and Pharmacokinetic Study of LL 3858 of Lupin Limited for the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Sputum Smear
• Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis conducted by the Hospital for Chest Diseases & Tuberculosis, Jaipur.

Practical Experience Performed:

• More than 700 Broncoscopy& related Biopsy procedures {e.g. Endobronchial / Transbronchial Biopsy (TBB)/ Conventional Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (TBNA)}
• More than 500 Endobronchial ultrasound-guided TBNA (EBUS-TBNA) and Radial EBUS guided TBB
• More than 100 Pleuroscopies (Flexi-rigid and Rigid)
• More than 50 Rigid bronchoscopies and related interventional procedures
• More than 1000 Pleural Aspirations / Pleural Biopsies / FNAC / Tube thoracostomiesetc.
• Mechanical Ventilation (both Invasive and Non-Invasive Strategies

Publications :

• Ravindra M Mehta, Rohan Aurangabadwalla, AbhinavSingla, ChakravarthiLoknath, MohammedMunavvar: Endobronchial ultrasound-guided mediastinal lymph node forceps biopsy in patients with negative rapid on site evaluation: A new step in the diagnostic algorithm. ClinRespir J.2019;00:1-6
• Jain N.K.; Thakkar M S, N. Jain, R. Aurangabadwalla, M. Sharma. COPD: Does gender really matter? Lung India 2011; vol 28,4, P-258   
• Jain NK, SanjeevChugh, Krishna K Sharma, Rohan Aurangabadwalla, Shikha Jindal:Outcome in DOTS category II patients by strengthening the regimen with daily levofloxacin. ERJ 2009;vol 34, S -53, P-2608.
• Jain NK, Vijay Agarwal, Rohan Aurangabdwalla ,Nitin Jain, Krishna K.Sharma:Drug resistance in previously treated patients of tuberculosis in pre DOTS and DOTS era and its implications.ERJ 2009; vol-34,S-53,P-2617.
• N.K. Jain, M.S. Thakkar, R. Aurangabadwalla, N. Jain, M. Sharma: Gender differences in presentation of COPD: a study of 550 patients from western India. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.2010; 181: A4110.
• N.K. Jain, R. Aurangabadwalla, N. Jain, M.S. Thakkar, M. Sharma: Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy-not an unusual cause of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.2010; 181: A1786.
• Mehta RM, Aurangabadwalla R, Singla A, Loknath C, Munavvar M. Endobronchial Ultrasound Guided Mediastinal Lymph node Forceps biopsy in Patients with negative Rapid-On-Site-Evaluation: A new step in Diagnostic Algorithm. ClinRespir J. 2019;00: 1-6.
• Ravindra M Mehta, PavankumarBiraris, Rohan Aurangabadwalla, HariprasadKalpakam, RajaniBhat, Pooja Bajaj. Use of an Extended Working Channel in High-Risk Transbronchial Lung Biopsy: An innovative use of an existing modality to minimize bleeding and Hypoxia. Innovations 2021, Vol 16(1) 75-79   
• ParmeswaranAnoop, Chanappa N Patil, RajeevaMoger, SwarnaShivakumar, Rohan K Aurangabadwala,Ravindra Mehta. Refractory Auto-immune Hematological Presentations of Undiagnosed Tuberculosis. JAPI. Vol.69. Sep 2021: 86-8

Media Publications :

• Chapter on ‘Bronchoscopy’ in the Manual of ICU procedures by Mohan Gurjar.
• PavankumarBiraris, Rohan KetanAurangabadwalla, Ravindra Mehta. An unusual cause of pleural effusion: Vanishing bone disease”. Textbook Chapter - Puzzling cases in Pulmonary medicine. ISBN 978-93-83989-25-6.
• Rohan KetanAurangabadwalla, Ravindra Mehta.An unusual presentation of a neuroendocrine tumor – pleural carcinoid.Textbook Chapter - Puzzling cases in Pulmonary medicine. ISBN 978-93-83989-25-6

Awards & Achievements :

• “Dr. Kali CharanMathur Best Paper Award” at the 8thAnnual state conference of Rajasthan Chapter of National College of Chest Physicians (Bikaner-2009).
• Award for winning the Inter-college Quiz conducted during the North Zone Post Graduate CME in Pulmonary Medicine. (Jaipur- 2010)
• “Dr. Hans Kumar Memorial Gold Medal for Young Scientist” for Best Paper at 10th Annual conference of Rajasthan Chapter of National College of Chest Physicians (Ajmer-2011).

Languages :

• English
• मराठी
• हिन्दी
• ગુજરાતી