Dr. Srivatsa Lokeshwaran

With over ten years of extensive experience in the field of pulmonology, Dr. Srivatsa Lokeshwaran’s special expertise lies in interventional pulmonology, lung transplants, airway disease, pulmonary fibrosis and sleep medicine. Dr. Srivatsa’s approach to medicine is evidence based and he actively seeks to stay abreast of the latest advancements in his field.

Dr. Srivatsa is especially skilled at Interventional Pulmonology and has trained with world-renowned interventional pulmonologists at National university hospital,Singapore in advanced airway and pleural procedures such as:

● Thoracoscopy

● EBUS (Endobronchial ultrasound)

● Rigid bronchoscopy and advanced central airway procedures

● Peripheral pulmonary nodule navigation and biopsy

It is this approach to medicine that made him an integral part of the team that performed the first ever bronchial thermoplasty procedure in the state of Karnataka, India for advanced Asthma.

Additionally, he is also credited with being the transplant physician on the multidisciplinary team that performed the first Bilateral lung transplant for a post COVID fibrosis patient in the state of Karnataka. He is now actively running the transplant clinic at Aster and has successfully completed several lung transplants.

He ran the asthma and airway disease clinic at National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore alongside other experts. He now runs an asthma clinic in asthma phenotyping and advanced therapies for asthma-like targeted therapy.Dr. Srivatsa also runs a state-of-the-art Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) clinic, one of the very few in the country to have a comprehensive ILD multidisciplinary group.

Dr. Srivatsa completed his undergraduate training at KIMS, Bengaluru, followed by his training in M.D. (Pulmonary medicine) from AIMS (Kochi).

He then went on to complete his Fellowship in Respiratory and Critical Care medicine from the world-renowned National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore.He holds the distinction of being the first international fellow in respiratory and critical care medicine from NUH, Singapore.

He has a Fellowship in Respiratory Endoscopy from the National Cancer Center, Japan, one of the premier institutes of advanced cancer management and research. He trained in CT mapping, convex EBUS, radial EBUS, autofluorescence, photodynamic therapy,early diagnosis of lung cancer, electromagnetic navigation, and other advanced diagnostics and therapeutic airway and pleural interventions. He also received a MABIP accredited Fellowship in advanced interventions like rigid bronchoscopy, complex central airway pathologies, cryotherapy, and laser and endobronchial valves during his stint at Serdang Hospital, Malaysia.