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Professor / Pulmonary Medicine
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English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi
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Dr. Uma Maheswari Krishnaswamy is a Professor in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine and has over 25 years of experience in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep medicine
Publications & Academic Profile
She has published over 20 papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals, with her work highly cited in areas like Sleep Apnea and TB
Qualification/ Education
DM (Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine): PGIMER, Chandigarh.
MD (Internal Medicine): PGIMER, Chandigarh.
MBBS: Bangalore Medical College.
Other formal training/certification
Fellowship: Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Fellowship in Sleep Medicine from Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London.
Experience
23 years
Areas of interest
Areas of interest
- Sleep Disorders
- Non-communicable lung diseases
Areas of Research interest
Identifying disease phenotypes in COPD and OSA, Data mining in sleep biosignals, Portable monitoring devices, medical device development and validation
Fellowship & Membership
Membership of professional associations/bodies
- Indian Chest Society
- American Thoracic Society
- World Sleep Society
- Indian Society for Sleep Research
- Indian Sleep Disorders Association
- European Respiratory Society
- Karnataka Pulmonologists Association
Membership of professional associations/bodies
European Respiratory Society
American Association of Sleep Medicine
Indian Chest Society
Awards and Recognitions
In February 2025, she was awarded the Philip Hopewell Prize for Global Respiratory Health Research.
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Hydropneumothorax with renal tumor: A genetic syndrome unraveled.
Swetha C. Nair, Venkatnarayan K, Chitra Veluthat, Uma Maheswari Krishnaswamy, Uma Devaraj, Priya Ramachandran. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) secondary to tuberculosis: A case series
Chitra Veluthat, Kavitha Venkatnarayan, Uma Maheswari, Uma Devaraj, Priya Ramachandran Comparison of Lung Ultrasound Findings in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Lobar Pneumonia: A Case–Control Study.
Devaraj U, Veluthat C, Venkatnarayan K, Krishnaswamy UM, Ramachandran P Assessment of Home-based Monitoring in Adults with Chronic Lung Disease: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement.
Khor YH, Poberezhets V, Buhr RG, Chalmers JD, Choi H, Fan VS, Krishnaswamy UM, Krishnan JA, et al. Development of a reference equation for maximal exercise capacity in normal Indian subjects using cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
Uma Devaraj , Chitra Veluthat , Kavitha Venkatnarayan , Uma Maheswari Krishnaswamy 1, Priya Ramachandran 1 Revised clinical practice guidelines for diagnosing, classifying, and treating allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis/mycoses: a Delphi statement from the ISHAM-ABPA working group
Ritesh Agarwal, Inderpaul Singh Sehgal, Valliappan Muthu, David W Denning, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Kathirvel Soundappan, Mandeep Garg, Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy, Sahajal Dhooria, Darius Armstrong-James, Koichiro Asano, Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Sanjay H Chotirmall, Helmut J.F. Salzer, James D Chalmers, Cendrine Godet, Marcus Joest, Iain Page, Parameswaran Nair, p Arjun, Raja Dhar, Kana Ram Jat, Geethu Joe, Uma Maheswari Krishnaswamy, Joseph L Mathew, Venkata Nagarjuna Maturu, Anant Mohan, Alok Nath, Dharmesh Patel, Jayanthi Savio, Puneet Saxena, Rajeev Soman, Balamugesh Thangakunam, Caroline G Baxter, Felix Bongomin, William J Calhoun, Oliver A Cornely, Jo A Douglass, Chris Kosmidis, Jacques F Meis, Richard Moss, Alessandro C. Pasqualotto, Danila Seidel, Rosanne Sprute, Kuruswamy Thurai Prasad, Ashutosh N Aggarwal Assessment of health-related quality of life in individuals with interstitial lung diseases in a tertiary care hospital in south India
D'Souza K, Ravichandran T, Venkatnarayan K, Veluthat C, Devaraj U, Ramachandran P, Maheswari Krishnaswamy U A rare cause of recurrent massive hemoptysis
Deshpande PN, Venkatnarayan K, Krishnaswamy UM, Veluthat C, Niranjanmurthy L, Devaraj U, et al. Identifying phenotypes of obstructive sleep apnea using cluster analysis.
Venkatnarayan K, Krishnaswamy UM, Rajamuri NKR et al. Missing the Forest for the Trees - A Rare Cause of Pleural Effusion
Kalagiri SS, Venkatnarayan K, Veluthat C, Tirumalae R, Krishnaswamy UM A simple x-ray scoring system for the diagnosis of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis
Priya Ramachandran | Jayanthi Savio | Priyadarshini Padaki | Ruchita Chhabra | Chitra Veluthat1 | Uma Devaraj1 | Kavitha Venkatanarayan1 | Uma M. Krishnaswamy1 |Santu Ghosh | George A. D’souza Prevalence and Risk Factors for OSA among Urban and Rural Subjects in Bengaluru District, South India: Across-sectional Study
Uma Devaraj, Uma Maheswari K, Sujana Balla3, Ashna M Pinto, Kavitha Venkatnarayan , Priya Ramachandran , Chitra Veluthat, George D Souza Role of ultrasound in the assessment of diaphragm function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Priya Ramachandran, Uma Devaraj, Louis Varghese, Kavitha Venkatanarayana, Uma Maheshwari Krishnaswamy, George D’Souza Case of Melioidosis misdiagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis
Chitra Veluthat, Kavitha Venkatanarayan, Priyadashini Padaki, Uma Maheswari No Others Contributions details available.