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Total Years of Experience

• 6 years

Years of Experience at Lilavati Hospital

• Joined from December 2022

Brief Details of Procedures Performed

• Endobronchial ultrasounds: 120
• Medical thoracoscopy done: 50
• Bronchoscopies: more than 500
• Ultrasound guided lung biopsy: 30

Area of Interest

• Interventional Pulmonology
• Sleep medicine
• Interstitial lung diseases
• Lung cancer

• Dr. J C kothari young scientist award for best paper in NAPCON 2019
• Best paper award in Bangalore chest society

• Venkatnarayan, Kavitha, Raj, R. A 51-Year-Old Woman with Pellets in the Sputum. CHEST, Volume 157, Issue 2, e25 - e29.
• Venkatnarayan, K., Raj, R., Krishnaswamy, U. M., Ramachandran, P., Devaraj, U., & Ananthamurthy, A. (2019). The sandwiched pleural effusion. Lung India: official organ of Indian Chest Society, 36(6), 560–562.
• Rishabh Raj, Kavitha Venkatnarayan, Uma Maheshwari Krishnaswamy, Uma Devaraj, Priya Ramachandran, Jayanthi Savio. A filamentous trio. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 2020; 90:1493, 683-686.
• Rishabh Raj, Uma Devaraj, Chitra V, Kavitha V, Priya R, Uma M. Development of a reference equation for maximal exercise capacity in normal Indian subjects using Cardio Pulmonary Exercise testing. Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 2022;2:66,120-125.