Dr. Ravindra Mukkunda is a highly accomplished nephrologist with a distinguished career marked by extensive training and experience in the UK and India. He is currently practising as a Senior Consultant & Chief of Nephrology and Renal Transplant at Manipal Hospitals, Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru. Dr. Mukkunda has extensive experience as a Nephrologist, having worked at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, Doncaster, UK, since 2013. He then returned to India in 2018, serving as an Assistant Professor in Nephrology until 2019. From 2020 to 2022, he continued his practice as a Consultant in Nephrology and Acute Medicine in Scotland, UK. Beyond clinical practice, Dr. Mukkunda is keen on teaching medical students, nephrology trainees, dialysis nurses, and technicians.

Educational Qualifications:

• MBBS – Mysore Medical College, Mysore
• MD (General Medicine) – Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellary
• MRCP – Royal College of Physicians, UK
• CCT (Nephrology & General Medicine) – UK
• MSc in Kidney Transplantation Science – University of Liverpool, UK

Professional Experience:

• Senior Consultant & Chief of Nephrology and Renal Transplant, Manipal Hospitals Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru

Awards & Achievements:

• Scholarship to attend the 10th Conference on Kidney Diseases in Disadvantaged Populations, Cape Town (March 2015)
• Best Poster Award, 8th Conference on Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations (Satellite of the World Congress of Nephrology, April 2011)
• ISPD Baxter Healthcare Young Researcher Award (Mexico City, July 2010)

Professional Memberships:

• Indian Society of Nephrology
• International Society of Nephrology

Publications:

• Mukkunda R et al. “A retrospective study of the effect of increasing frequency of administration of intravenous epoetin on renal anaemia in haemodialysis patients.” Poster, British Renal Symposium, Nov 2006.
• Mukkunda R et al. “A clinical study on ‘Primary Renal Ewing’s Tumour in adults – a rare entity’ – case series – Sarcoma, Volume 2009, Article ID 504654.