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Dr Prasanna Kumar Thomas

Dr Prasanna Kumar Thomas
43 Years Experience Overall (39 years as specialist) Years of Experience
  • Senior Consultant Department of Pulmonology
  • Speciality :

    Pulmonary Medicine
  • Degrees :

    MBBS, Diploma in Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases (DTCD), MD - Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases/Medicine
  • Language :

    English,Tamil,Hindi
  • Hospital :

    MGM Healthcare, Chennai
  • City & Country:

    Chennai, India
  • Address :

    MGM Healthcare Pvt Ltd New No 72, Old No 54 Nelson Manickam Road, Aminjikarai, Chennai - 600029
  • +8801886655200
About Doctor

Dr. Prasanna Kumar Thomas Graduated from Madras Medical College and

also completed post graduated in same institution. He was the recipient of

the KV krishnaswamy Gold Medal for the best out going MD post graduate.

He is currently placed as a Senior Consultant Pulmonologist at Sri

Ramachandra Medical College and MGM healthcare Hospitals at Chennai.

His Basic areas of interest are Airways Diseases and Smoking Cessation and is

actively engaged in promoting continuing medical education for Professionals

and Smoking Cessation for Public.He has delivered guest lectures at WASSOG

2017 – Sarcoidosis and TB in Tb endemic Countries and also at the annual

congress of the Phillipine chest society on Phenotypes in asthma . He is also

actively involved in socially sensitive activities like free Medical Camps and

Awareness programmes and has done multiple such events all over the

Country,even in remote places likeOrissa and Assam. A TOBACCO FREE INDIA

is his dream and is reflection of the person he is.

With nearly 40 years of experience in the field of Pulmonology, Dr Prasanna Kumar Thomas is a renowned respiratory physician and a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare. His areas of interest include airway diseases and smoking cessation and is actively engaged in promoting smoking cessation for the public.

Qualifications

1978

MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery)

Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

1982

DTCD (Diploma in Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases)

Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

1986

MD (Doctor of Medicine) in Tuberculosis & Chest Diseases

Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Affiliations

Indian Medical Association

European Respiratory Society

American Thoracic Society

Tamilnadu Association of Pulmonologists

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