Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy

Academic Training & Fellowships:

• Graduated in Medicine from Madras Medical College.
• Residency in Medicine at  Govt. General Hospital, Chennai.
• Graduate program in Epidemiology and Fellowship in HIV Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
• Ph.D in Medicine and Infectious Diseases at University of Madras
• Post Doctoral Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Public Health at Brown University, USA
• FRCP –Fellowship in Medicine and Infectious Diseases from the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK

Current Responsibilities:

• Chief & Director, VHS-Infectious Diseases Medical Centre – Directs a clinic which provides medical care for more than 20,000 persons with HIV and Infectious diseases in Southern India.
•  Director& Site Leader– Chennai Antiviral Research and Treatment (CART) Clinical Research Site  of US National Institutes of Health(NIH).
•  Principal Investigator – ACTG,HPTN,INSIGHT network studies of National Institutes of Health/USA for the Chennai site.
• Clinical Investigator for several on going clinical research projects with Brown University/ USA , University of California San Diego/USA  , Harvard University/USA and University of New South Wales/Australia.
• Visiting Faculty – Brown University, Providence, USA
• Expert panel member– WHO- ARV Treatment guidelines committee
• Faculty – Physician’s training programs in HIV medicine and Infectious Diseases.
• General Secretary & Governing Council member – AIDS Society of India (ASI) ; Governing council member-International Infectious Diseases Society
• Organizing Chair of ongoing CART symposium, an annual ART update.
• Advisor to World Health Organization
• Member-COVID19 National Task Force for Clinical Research and Drug Development

Research Interests:

• Natural History of HIV Disease in Developing countries
• Long term impact of antiretroviral drugs in Resource constrained settings

Publications and presentations:

Has published more than 400 manuscripts in medical journals, delivered more than 200 invited presentations in conferences/symposia and contributed to several book chapters and Treatment Guidelines.