COVID-19

My Take On COVID-19 | Dr Dhruva Chaudhry, President, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine(ISCCM)

Dr Dhruva Chaudhry is presently Senior Professor & Head, Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Health Sciences Rohtak. He is an alumnus of PGIMER Chandigarh & PGIMS, Rohtak. He was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Academic staff fellowship in Pulmonology in 2009. He is also a recipient of Hansraj Nayyar Memorial Award of ISCCM for the best researcher. He is a fellow of Indian College of Critical Care & Indian College of Physicians. Presently he is the President of Association of Commonwealth Scholars & Fellows (ACSF). Prof. Chaudhry established the Department of PCCM in his institute which has been approved & recognized by MCr for DM in Pulmonary & critical care Medicine from the Year 2011. He was the founding as well as current Dean of the Faculty of Medical Super-specialities of University of Health Sciences Rohtak besides Professor in charge A& E. He also was DSW(Dean Student Welfare) of the Pt. B.D.S. Sharma university of health Sciences & initiated a number of student welfare activities. He is a regular inspector for both National Board of Examination & MCI, Examiner for UG & PG and Post Doctoral Courses of various Universities in Critical Care, Pulmonary & Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Emergency medicine, Respiratory Medicine & of ISCCM. Prof Chaudhry has also supervised 30 postgraduates in Medicine & allied subjects, 14 Postdoctoral fellows & 3 PhDs besides the number of major projects sponsored by DBT, ICMR, etc.

He has written more than 42 Papers in National and International journals & 38 chapters in books. Prof. Chaudhry is on the editorial board & also a regular reviewer in peer review journals in Chest, Critical care & allied specialities. He edited a monograph on “Antibiotics uses & abuses”. He is past Vice-Chancellor (2016-17) of Indian College of Critical care medicine ((ICCM), the academic wing of ISCCM (The Indian society of critical care medicine). He also is the past General Secretary (2014-2015) of ISCCM & was its Accreditation Co-ordinator ( 2010-2014) for 4 years. He is the co-author of guidelines on NIV & Tropical fever in ICU & member of guideline committee on CVP, & nebulization therapy. He is also the founding board member of Indian College of Critical Care Medicine. He also has the distinction of being the founding chairperson of the Rohtak branch of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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