Dr. S Balasubramanian is a highly experienced Senior Consultant Nephrologist at Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, with over 25 years of expertise in nephrology and kidney care. His areas of expertise include kidney transplantation, chronic kidney disease (CKD), dialysis (haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis), resistant hypertension, and critical care nephrology.

Educational Qualification:

• MBBS – Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
• MD (Internal Medicine) – Postgraduate in Internal Medicine
• DNB- Nephrology

Professional Experience:

• Consultant Nephrologist in Apollo Hospitals Greams Road, Chennai ( 10/2007- till date)
•  Staff Physician and Deputy Head of Clinical Service Division at National Kidney Foundation, Singapore (02/2003- 09/2007)
•  Renal Fellow in the Department of Renal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore (07/2002- 01/2003)
•  Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Nephrology at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Consultant Nephrologist at PSG Hospitals, Coimbatore, India (06/1999- 06/2002)
• Consultant Nephrologist at Coimbatore Kidney Centre, Coimbatore, India. (08/1997- 04/1999)
• Registrar training in Nephrology (04/1995- 04/1997)
• Assistant Professor of Medicine at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, Coimbatore, India (08/1994- 03/1995)

OTHER COURSES:

• Has done a ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor course in Singapore (07/2004)
•  Participated in a workshop on Faculty Research Methodology at Christian Medical College,Vellore, India (04/2001)
• Done a training course on teaching/learning from Department of Medical Education at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore (02/2000)
• Financial Management for Non Finance Managers at Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore (17/01/2007- 19/01/2007)

TEACHING EXPERIENCES:

• Actively involved in training programmes and advanced courses on Dialysis practices for nurses in National Kidney Foundation, Singapore since 2003.
• Worked as an Assistant Professor of Nephrology in PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research for 3 years teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical students (1999- 2002)
• Worked as an Assistant Professor of General Medicine in PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research for 8 months teaching undergraduate medical students (08/1994- 03/1995)

Professional Memberships:

• Papers Presented:

• Our Experience with OKT3 in Steroid Resistant Acute Rejections in Post Renal Transplant Recipients – presented in INDIAN SOCIETY OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION CONFERENCE at Chennai, India (1997)

• Clinical and Doppler Evaluation of Renal Allograft Dysfunction in Renal transplant recipient – presented at INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE at Calcutta, India (1997)

• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in post cardiac surgery patients– presented in SOUTHERN CHAPTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE at Bangalore, India (1996)

• Changing Spectrum of Primary Glomerulonephritis – Retrospective Study– presented in SOUTHERN CHAPTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE at Bangalore, India. (1996)

• Donor Kidney Biopsy – Prospective analysis – presented in SOUTHERN CHAPTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE at Kottayam, India. (1997)

• Renal Transplant in Children – Our Experience – presented in SOUTHERN CHAPTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CONFERENCE at Hyderabad, India (1997)

• Our experience with Cadaver Renal Transplantation– INDIAN SOCIETY OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION CONFERENCE at Chennai, India (1997)

• Skin Manifestations in Chronic Renal Failure– presented in SOUTH ZONE CONFERENCE OF IADVL at Trivandrum, India (2000)

• Efficacy and Safety of Low Dose Intravenous Iron in ESRD patients—presented at the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY Renal Week, St.Louis, Missouri, USA (2004)

• Impact of Hepatitis B Surface Antigenaemia(HbsAg) on survival of hemodialysis patients--- presented at the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY Renal Week, St.Louis, Missouri, USA (2004)

Publications:

• ‘O’ set connector system in CAPD. AnnigeriRA, Prakash GK, Balasubramanian R, Balasubramanian.S, Prakash KC, KavithaMK—J.Assoc.Physicians of India Sep 1996;

• Longevity of permanent vascular access, types of interventions and their outcomes.Balasubramanian.S, SreeKrishna V, Kulkarni N.S , Prabhakar K.S, Wong K.S, Nandakumar.M --- Am J Nephrol 2004;24(reprint), No 1 :pg126 (abstract presented at NephroAsia 2004, Singapore)

• Pre-Dialysis Iron Profile in patients starting Hemodialysis at National Kidney Foundation, Singapore SreeKrishna V , Kulkarni N.S, Prabhakar K.S, Balasubramanian.S, Wong K.S , Nandakumar .M-- -Am J Nephrol 2004; 24 (reprint) : pg125 (abstract presented in NephroAsia 2004, Singapore)

• Effect of Dialyser Reuse on Small and High Molecular Weight Solute Clearance. Nandakumar.M, Kulkarni N.S, Sreekrishna V, Balasubramanian.S, Prabhakar K.S, Wong K.S-- Am J Nephrol 2004;24(reprint):pg125 (abstract presented in Nephroasia 2004, Singapore)

• Comparison of Pre ESRD care between patients with New ESRD and ESRD after renal allograft loss. Balasubramanian.S, Veena J, SreeKrishna V, Prabhakar K.S , Wong K.S, Nandakumar.M-----Nephrology 2005;10(Supplement):pg A58(abstract presented at WCN 2005, Singapore)

• Prevalence of Malignancy in Hemodialysis Population. Balasubramanian.S, Veena J, SreeKrishna V, Prabhakar K.S , Wong K.S, Nandakumar.M-----Nephrology 2005;10(Supplement):pg A 190(abstract presented at WCN 2005, Singapore)

• Effect of parathyroidectomy on Anemia in ESRD patients on Hemodialysis. SreeKrishna.V, Balasubramanian.S, Prabhakar K.S , Wong K.S, Nandakumar.M----Nephrology 2005;10(Supplement):pg A 312(abstract presented at WCN 2005, Singapore)

• Impact of Hepatitis C antibody positivity on survival of Hemodialysis patients. M.Nandakumar, Veena J, Balasubramanian.S, SreeKrishna V, K.S.Prabhakar, K.S.Wong.-----Nephrology 2005;10(Supplement):pg A58(abstract presented at WCN 2005, Singapore)

• Post Parathyroidectomy nutritional status in Hemodialysis patients. M.Nandakumar, Veena J, Balasubramanian.S, SreeKrishna V, K.S.Prabhakar, K.S.Wong-----Nephrology 2005;10(Supplement):pg A 77(abstract presented at WCN 2005, Singapore)

• Racial Difference in impact of variables on survival on hemodialysis. M.Nandakumar, Veena J, Balasubramanian.S, SreeKrishna V, K.S.Prabhakar, K.S.Wong-----Nephrology 2005;10(Supplement):pg A 77(abstract presented at WCN 2005, Singapore)

• Predictors of survival of permanent vascular accesses Balasubramanian.S, Veena J, SreeKrishna V, Prabhakar K.S Nandakumar.M----- Renal week 2005’s

• Supplement of Journal of American society of Nephrology

• Cutaneous manifestations in patients with Chronic renal failure on Hemodialysis (review article) Udayakumar P, Balasubramanian S, Ramalingam KS, Chembolli Lakshmi, Srinivas C R----Indian

• Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology 2006 ; Volume : 72 ; Issue : 2 , pg : 119-125