Dr. Srinivas Rajagopala

Dr. Srinivas Rajagopala is Senior Consultant in Interventional Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine and Director of Transplant Pulmonology & the Lung Failure Unit at Kauvery Hospital, Chennai. Kauvery describes him as a pulmonologist with about two decades of experience across pulmonary infections, intensive care, interstitial lung disease, COPD and transplant pulmonology.

His training includes internal medicine and pulmonary/critical-care medicine, followed by advanced exposure to lung transplantation in Toronto. Kauvery also documents experience at major Indian and international centres, including PGIMER, JIPMER, Royal Adelaide Hospital, McMaster University and Toronto General Hospital. His current work combines general pulmonary assessment with advanced lung-failure and transplant medicine.

Clinical responsibilities include evaluation of severe chronic lung disease, donor-lung assessment, transplant candidacy and long-term respiratory support. His practice also covers bronchoscopy, pulmonary-function testing, sleep medicine and critical-care pulmonology.

In advanced disease, assessment may require CT imaging, lung-function measurements, oxygen requirements, exercise testing, infection history and review of cardiac or other organ function before a transplant pathway is considered.

Dr. Rajagopala has contributed to Kauvery publications on lung transplantation and thoracic organ donation. A transplant recommendation depends on disease severity, reversibility, comorbidities and detailed pre-transplant testing; patients seeking review should provide recent chest imaging, pulmonary-function tests, discharge summaries, oxygen or ventilator requirements and a complete medication list. Prior bronchoscopy, microbiology and rehabilitation records can also materially affect assessment of advanced lung disease.