Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy, MD

Dr.N.Kumarasamy is the Chief & Director of Infectious Diseases Medical Centre  at Voluntary Health Services (VHS) Hospital in Chennai and directs the clinic which provides medical care for persons with HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, COVID and other Infectious Diseases in Chennai, Southern India.

Dr.Kumarasamy is the Director of the Chennai Antiviral Research and Treatment (CART) Clinical Research Site and conducts Therapeutic and Biomedical prevention clinical trials in HIV and in other Infectious Diseases . He is involved as an investigator for the clinical development of several antivirals.

Dr.Kumarasamy is a clinician and a researcher in Infectious disease with more than 25 yrs of experience and has published more than 450 manuscripts in peer reviewed medical journals. He has conducted several landmark Antiretroviral clinical trials which had impacted Treatment Guidelines. His publications on Impact of Antiretroviral therapy has led to several Antiretroviral scale up programs in developing countries. Dr.Kumarasamy is an advisor and expert panel member for World Health Organization – ARV Treatment guidelines committee and a Clinical advisor to Clinton Health Access Initiative. He serves as editorial committee member of several medical journals.