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Chennai, India

Dr. Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan

Senior Consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Researcher

Dr. Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan is a clinician-researcher specialising in critical care medicine, clinical trials and evidence-based healthcare. He serves as Senior Consultant and Research Lead in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, and is a member of the Chennai Critical Care Consultants Group.

His work brings together frontline intensive-care practice and clinically meaningful research. He has a particular interest in investigator-initiated clinical trials that address questions important to critically ill patients, their families, healthcare professionals and health systems in India and other low- and middle-income countries.

Dr. Bharath contributes to national and international research collaborations involving critical-care epidemiology, ICU registries, registry-embedded studies, patient-centred outcomes, sepsis, resuscitation and quality improvement. His research aims to generate reliable evidence that can improve clinical decision-making, strengthen intensive-care services and make high-quality research more relevant and accessible across resource-diverse healthcare settings.

Alongside his clinical responsibilities, he holds academic and research affiliations with leading institutions in India and the United Kingdom. Through his clinical, academic and mentoring work, he supports clinicians and researchers in developing rigorous, practical and patient-focused research.

Qualifications and Training

  • MBBS
  • MD, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
  • European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine – EDIC
  • Fellowship in Critical Care, National University Health System, Singapore
  • Fellowship in Critical Care, Sunnybrook Hospital, University of Toronto
  • MSc, University of London
  • PhD, University of Amsterdam

Current Professional and Academic Roles

  • Senior Consultant and Research Lead, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
  • Senior Consultant, Chennai Critical Care Consultants Group
  • Honorary Senior Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India
  • Clinical Research Fellow, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical care and intensive care medicine
  • Investigator-initiated clinical trials
  • Pragmatic and registry-embedded clinical research
  • Critical-care epidemiology and ICU registries
  • Sepsis, resuscitation and organ support
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  • Patient-centred outcomes and research priority setting
  • Research capacity building in low- and middle-income countries
  • Clinical research methodology and manuscript development
Communication note: Dr. Bharath usually responds to emails within 72 hours. For urgent matters, please contact him by telephone.