Dr. Rajan Ravichandran

Dr. Rajan Ravichandran is one of India’s most eminent and pioneering Nephrologists, with a career spanning over four decades. He has treated more than 20,000 national and international patients from countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Renowned for his innovative spirit, he developed an affordable acute dialysis machine model for emergency fluid removal and collaborated with IIT Madras to patent crucial kidney medications (Polyallylamine Phosphate Binder). He is also widely respected as the founder of the Sapiens Health Foundation—actively campaigning against high salt intake across India—and serves as a Professor of Practice at IIT Madras.

• MBBS — Graduated at the top of his class from Bombay University with several gold medals.

• MD (Internal Medicine) — Bombay University.

• Diplomate in Nephrology — National Board of Examinations.

• Fellowship / Visiting Professor — Tokyo Women’s Medical College, Japan (1997).

Professional Experience Timeline

• • Director & Head of Department – NephrologyMIOT International Hospital, Chennai (2008 – Present)Overseeing one of India’s largest kidney care and transplant ecosystems, leading a team that has completed over 600 successful adult and pediatric transplants.

• • Founder & DirectorMadras Institute of Nephrology at Vijaya Hospital, Chennai (1984 – 2008)Established a dedicated, specialized regional hub for advanced renal replacement therapies, which eventually merged with MIOT Hospitals in 2008.

• • Consultant NephrologistApollo Hospital, Chennai (1983 – 1984)Began his landmark clinical career in Chennai, providing vital foundation work during the early expansion of modern corporate nephrology care in South India.

• • Assistant Professor & TutorKEM Hospital and Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai (Prior to 1983)Served in academic medicine, helping train the next generation of physicians while managing complex clinical cases in a premier municipal tertiary care hospital.

Core Areas of Medical Expertise

• • Pioneering Incompatible Transplants: First in India to successfully publish and execute across-blood-group (ABO-incompatible) kidney transplantations utilizing advanced Japanese clinical protocols.

• • Academic Leadership: Appointed as a Professor of Practice at the prestigious IIT Madras, driving interdisciplinary medical and engineering collaborations.

• • Clinical Volume: Over 40 years of hands-on experience treating more than 20,000 domestic and international patients suffering from Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

• • Medical Innovation & Patents: Co-developed an affordable, minimal-viable emergency acute dialysis machine for rapid fluid removal, and actively collaborated to bring affordable kidney medications (such as Polyallylamine Phosphate Binders) to the Indian market.

• World Hypertension League Award (For his nationwide public health campaigns on low-salt dietary practices).

• Pioneered the first published case in India of successful kidney transplantation across incompatible blood groups.

• Founder Chairman of the Cystinosis Foundation of India (the 10th such specialized global foundation).