Sree Bhushan Raju
| D Sree Bhushan Raju | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bhongir, Nalgonda Telangana |
| Residence | Hyderabad |
| Citizenship | India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Nephrologist |
| Institutions | Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences |
| Alma mater |
Gandhi Medical College All India Institute of Medical Sciences Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences |
| Notable awards | Vaidya Ratna |
Dr.Sree Bhushan Raju M.D., D.M., Diplomate of National Board, (Telugu: శ్రీ భూషణ్ రాజు) is a nephrologist from Telangana, India. He is currently Professor and Head, Dept of Nephrology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta. Hyderabad. He is also elected as NIMS faculty association President.
Early life
Sree Bhushan Raju was born in Vanaparthi village in a rural lower-middle-class background. This village is in Bhongir mandal of Nalgonda district of Telangana. After primary education in the native place, he was admitted to medical education in Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad and completed the course in 1993. He was awarded gold medals during the curriculum. He got a high ranking in all India competitive examination and joined the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad. He completed M.D. in General Medicine in 1989. Later he joined All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India and completed D.M. in Nephrology. He scored high marks and earned a gold medal in D.N.B exam September 2002
Career
He has written more than 100 publications in various national and international journals and has attended conferences and workshops abroad both as a delegate and speaker/moderator since the last 10 years. He is a regular writer in popular print media and educate the publish in various Kidney diseases.
In addition to seeing patients daily, he specialises in kidney transplantation and CAP dialysis. He is known for his least use of immunosuppressive drugs without induction agents in organ transplantation. He has performed more than 250 kidney transplants, 5000 biopsies and more than 700 CAPD patients, since 2011.
He has conducted regular free medical camps for the people of his village and surrounding villages. He started providing basic amenities to the nephrology department's like ARCU renovation, fans, water purifiers, chairs and patient education kits.
He was the recipient of the Vaidya Ratna award from the Suman Arts in the 2014 for meritorious services in health care.
Selected publications
- Post renal transplant diabetes mellitus and hepatitis C: Is there any association. Raju DSB, Agarwal SK, Gupta S, Dash SC, Bhowmick D, Tiwari SC, Guleria S, Mehta SN. Presented as poster in Congress Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST), 2002 held at New Delhi.
- Post transplant hypertension at one year: Impact on long-term graft survival. Raju DSB, Agarwal SK, Gupta S, Dash SC, Bhowmick D, Tiwari SC, Guleria S, Mehta SN. Presented as poster in Congress Asian society of Transplantation (CAST), 2002 held at New Delhi.
- Prevalence of CRF in India. Agarwal SK, Dash SC, Raju DSB, Irshad M. Presented in racial and ethnic minority groups, official satellite conference in the world congress of Nephrology, October 18–20, 2001, Santaffi, USA.
- Prevalence of chronic renal failure in adults in Delhi, India. Agarwal SK, Dash SC, Irshad M, Raju S, Singh R, Pandey RM, Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2005 Aug; 20 (8): 1638-42.
- Posterior Leucoencephalopathy in a child on CAPD (to be published in Nephrology)
Awards and recogntion
- FICP : Indian College of Physicians Association of Physicians of India, January 2012.
- FIACM : Fellowship of Indian Association of Clinical Medicin(IACM) , October 2012.
- FISN : Fellowship of Indian Society of Nephrology(ISN), December 2012.
References
- Eenadu, April 12, 2008
- Andhra Bhoomi, April 11, 2008.
- Saakshi, April 11, 2008. www. saakshi.com
- Times of India, Eenadu July 7, 2006
- India today, March 26, 2000