T V Rajagopal

- Passionate Pulmonologist & Sleep Physician with the primary motto

"Primum non nocere"

Ambitions & Future plans:

1. Establishing a Full fledged Sleep centre with >4 sleep suites and titration labs catering to sleep disorders inclusive and not limited to Obstructive sleep apnea(OSA), Obesity hypoventilation syndrome, Parasomnias, Sleep related Movement disorders, Congenital hypoventilation.

2. Pediatric sleep centre for Pediatric OSA, Hypoventilation syndromes.

4. Establishing a referral centre for Lung cancer screening with facility for Pulmonary Nodule Biopsies via Radial EBUS.

4. Establishing a referral centre for Lung cancer screening with facility for Pulmonary Nodule Biopsies via Radial EBUS

5. Starting DNB Pulmonology & FNB Sleep medicine courses in the current institute

6. Getting involved in good quality Research in the field of Sleep medicine

Leadership skills

Member of the organising team in the following conferences:

• 70th NATCON 2015 held at KGMU Lucknow on 20th & 21st February 2015
• 51st ICAAICON (Annual convention of the Indian college of Allergy, Asthma and Applied Immunology) held at KGMU Lucknow between March 15 -18 2018
• ALLERGOCON 2019 & ALLERGOCON 2020 held at Christian Medical college, Vellore
• Thoracic Ultrasound Workshop – 2019 on August 30th & 31st at Christian Medical college
• EBUS CME 2022 at Naruvi Hospitals in August 2022

Presentations

• Poster Presentation titled “ Aspergillus sensitisation in Bronchial asthma – A separate phenotype” in NAPCON 2017 held in Kolkata between 16th to 19th November 2017
• Conferred ‘M.Sundaramma young scientist award’ for the best research paper titled “ Aspergillus sensitisation in patients with Bronchial asthma” 51st ICAAICON (Annual convention of the Indian college of Allergy, Asthma and Applied Immunology) held in KGMU Lucknow between March 15 -18 2018
• Presented a poster titled “Misleading granulomas” in NATCON 2019 held in Chennai between 20-21 January 2020.
• Presented a case report on “Lung dominant Connective tissue disorder” in clinical meet held in Christian Medical college on July 20th 2019

Publications

1. Pulmonary hydatid cyst presenting with hemoptysis; Surya Kant , Jyoti Bajpai , DK Bajaj ,Rohit Pathak , Rajagopal TV; Indian Journal of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine,April-June 2017;2(2):58-59

2. Rajagopal TV, Kant S, Verma SK, et al. Aspergillus sensitization in bronchial asthma: A separate phenotype. Allergy Asthma Proc. 2020;41(1):e26–e32. doi:10.2500/aap.2020.41.190008

3. Bajpai J, Rajagopal TV, Kant S, Shukla S, Pradhan A, Bajaj DK. Curious case of primary pulmonary mucoepidermoid carcinoma. J Family Med Prim Care. 2019;8(12):4039–4041. Published 2019 Dec 10. doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_731_19

4. Submitted an original article titled “The yield of bronchoscopy in sputum Xpert

MTB/Rif negative tuberculosis in the Xpert era” presented in ERS 2020 congress held in Vienna

5. Submitted an original article titled “The prevalence and risk factors of Obstructive sleep apnea in patients with stroke” presented in Virtual ERS 2021 congress

6. Acute heart failure - Central breathing disorder - Hypercapnia: The uncommon trio

ERJ Open Research 2023 9(suppl 11): 121

7.Systematic Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Comparison of Screened and Self presented patients

ERJ Open Research 2025; 11: Suppl. 16, 174

1. European Respiratory Society (ID 432684)

2. Asia Pacific Society of Respirology (ID 3042)

3. Indian Chest Society (ID L-2704)

4. Lucknow Chest society

5. European Sleep research Society(Applied in Nov 2022)

6. SEAASM (ID SSM/517)