Dr. Prashant Chhajed,

MD, DETRD, DNB, FCCP(USA)

Dr Chhajed is the Director of the Institute of Pulmonology, Medical research & Development and Lung Care & Sleep Centre at Fortis Hospitals, Mumbai.

Dr. Prashant Chhajed received his medical doctorate from the University of Mumbai, India in 1996. In 1998, he was a Fellow in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney Australia. Subsequently, he continued as a Fellow in thoracic medicine, and lung transplantation at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney until 2002. After a short stay in the department of Thoracic Surgery at Chiba University Hospital, Japan, Dr. Chhajed then joined Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland as a

Dr. Chhajed is a recognized expert in all facets of bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy (medical thoracoscopy) with a keen interest in sleep apnea and transcutaneous carbon dioxide monitoring. He has also been an active clinical researcher in the area of Interventional Pulmonology, Interstitial Lung Disease, Obstructive Airways Disease and Lung Transplantation. He has been an invited lecturer at numerous national and international meetings, and he is a well-recognized teacher and has been a faculty in numerous bronchoscopy and interventional workshops around the world.