Dr. Chintankumar Kaswala

Introduction

Dr. Chintankumar Kaswala is a qualified physician with extensive training in Family Medicine and a postdoctoral fellowship in Infectious Diseases. He holds memberships with esteemed medical associations such as the Clinical Infectious Diseases Society of India and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Kaswala has actively contributed as faculty in several significant conferences, including the Global Intensive Care Symposium 2022 and the ADA Primer Conference 2022 in Bengaluru. Additionally, he serves as a faculty member for the ‘Fellowship in General Infectious Diseases programme at CMC, Vellore.

Area of Expertise

• Managing HIV, tropical fever (Dengue, Malaria, Enteric, Scrub Typhus) and infections in transplant and oncology patients
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Management of multi-drug resistant infections
• Infections in critically ill patients
• Managing complex infections like Endocarditis, meningitis, prosthesis and implant- related infections
• Pyrexia of unknown origin

Research and Publications

• “Accuracy of expert MTB/RIF Ultra for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in adult patients: A retrospective cohort study”
• “Incidence of adverse outcomes and risk factors for mortality among mucormycosis patients in India: a multi-centric ambispective cohort study with ICMR”. (Ongoing)
• “Meropenem vs Ceftazidime-Avibactam vs Ceftazidime-Avibactam & Aztreonam as empiric, first-line treatment of high-risk febrile neutropenia – a randomised controlled trial”. (Ongoing)