Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh

(A WHO Collaborating centre for Research & Capacity Building in Chronic Respiratory Diseases)

Department Activities

Clinical services

Service Details
In-patient 15 beds
Respiratory ICU 8 beds
Chest Clinic Mondays and Thursdays
Lung Cancer Clinic Tuesdays and Thursdays

Work load of the department in the past 3 years

  2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024
OPD registrations – New (Chest Clinic & Lung Cancer Clinic) 8,587 13,782 15,518
OPD registration – Old (Chest Clinic & Lung Cancer Clinic) 16,676 27,700 33,231
Indoor admissions 397 796 710
Respiratory ICU admissions 223 382 400
Flexible bronchoscopy procedures (including EBUS) 1222 1880 1645
Interventional pulmonology procedures (Thoracoscopy & rigid bronchoscopy) 63 78 64
Convex probe endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) procedures 187 298 295
Radial probe endobronchial ultrasound (Radial EBUS) procedures 61 82 60
Pulmonary function tests (Spirometry + Special tests) 1,213 7,176 6,540
Polysomnography (Sleep study) 0 15 12

Educational activities

Activity Details
Post doctoral (DM) Course in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 9-11 at any point of time
Rotational posting of MD Internal Medicine residents 6-10 at any point of time
Short-term clinical attachments 2-6 per year
Dr. S. K. Malik Memorial Oration Once a year
Annual Update on Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Once a year

Dr. S. K. Malik Memorial Oration

Dr. S. K. Malik was our founder, who established this Department in its current state. In his memory, we have instituted an Oration called Dr. S. K. Malik Memorial Oration, which is given to an eminent scientist once in two years.

S. No. Year Speaker Topic
1 1992 Dr. S. K. Tripathy, Director general, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi HIV and Tuberculosis
2 1996 Dr. Ian Greg, Former Director, Epidemiology in Clinical Practice, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK Bronchitis and asthma: thoughts on their nature, clinical investigations and management
3 1998 Dr. J. S. Guleria, Former Dean and Head of the Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi Problems of high altitude hypoxia
4 2000 Dr. J. G. Ayres, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Warwick, Consultant Physician and Director Research, Heartlands hospital, Birmingham, UK From smog to nanotoxicity: air-pollution and health in the year 2000
5 2003 Prof. Udaya B. Prakash, Scripps Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School and Mayo Postgraduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA Clinical approach to hemoptysis
6 2005 Prof. Nirmal K. Ganguly, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi Relevance of tuberculosis research in India
7 2007 Dr. Ruby Pawankar, Professor of Rhinology and Allergy, Department of Otolaryngology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan The versatile role of mast cells in allergic airway inflammation and remodelling
8 2011 Dr. Daniel Banks, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, USA Asbestos exposure in the US and India – two different paths
9 2013 Dr. Robert Baughman, Profesor of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, USA Sarcoidosis: Current perspectives
10 2016 Dr. Suman Laal, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, USA Diagnosis of TB: progress, problems and potential
11 2024 Dr. Sanjay Kalra, Associate Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and Consultant in Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Demystifying Interstitial Lung Diseases
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