Dr. Dilip Rangarajan

Dr. Dilip Rangarajan completed his MBBS in 1985 from the prestigious Madras Medical College. He joined MD (General Medicine) at Madras Medical College in 1987 after topping the entrance examination for post-graduation in Tamil Nadu. His stint in nephrology began in 1990 when he joined as a registrar in nephrology department at Pandalai hospital and Guest hospital, Chennai. He successfully completed DNB nephrology from Madras Medical College in 1994. He has headed the department of nephrology at Sundaram medical foundation, Chennai from 1994 before taking over as head of department nephrology at NU hospitals 2001. He is currently the Medical Director at NU Hospitals. He has vast experience in handling critical care nephrology patients, haemodialysis patients and renal transplants. He has devised safety practices in haemodialysis which has considerably improved the quality of life in patients on haemodialysis. He does internal audits in various departments in the hospital pertaining to quality. He runs a DNB nephrology programme at NU hospitals. He also runs a training programme for dialysis technicians (CMDT/DMDT and BSc Renal dialysis) at NU hospitals. He has various presentations at regional/national and international forums and many publications at the national level. He holds memberships in international society of nephrology, Indian society of nephrology, Indian society of nephrology-southern chapter, Indian society of organ transplant, peritoneal dialysis society of India, nephrology association of Karnataka. On February 25th 2018, Dr. Dilip Rangarajan received honorary FRCP in Glasglow, UK...read more