Dr. Laxman Jessani Infectious Disease Specialist in Mumbai

Dr. Laxman Jessani

Infectious Disease Specialist, Mumbai

MBBS, DNB(Medicine), CCEBDM, MNAMS, FNB(Infectious Diseases), FRSPH(UK)

  • 14 Years Experience
  • 1 Hospital
  • Languages : English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi

Experience

Infectious Disease Specialist, Apollo Hospitals 2016 -  Present

Specialities

  • Infectious Diseases

Education

MBBS, Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of hospitals

Practice Information

Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai

Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai

Plot #13, Parsik Hill Road, Off Uran Road, Sector - 23, CBD Belapur, Opp. Nerul Wonders Park, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400614

TUE, THU

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Achievements & Contributions

  • Awarded prestigious “International Infectious Diseases Fellow” grant at Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), San Diego, 2015
  • Won All India Best Thesis Award: Dr Vithalrao Nadgouda Award in APICON (Association of Physicians, India), Ludhiana, Feb 2014
  • Won Best Poster award in Pulmonology in National level conference- APICON 2013, Coimbatore in February 2013
  • Won Best Paper award in Pulmonology in State level conference- KAPICON 2012, Hassan in May 2012
  • Won Best Paper award in Neurology in State level conference- KNACON 2012, Mysore in February 2012
  • Won Best Essay Contest for PG students published in MYAPI newsletter, API Mysore Chapter in May-July 2012, Vol 3 issue 4 
  • Won 2nd prize in Critical Care Quiz in Critical Care Conference at CMC Vellore in January 2013.
  • Won 2nd prize in “COPD Quiz” held on world COPD day at Apollo BGS Hospital, Mysore in November 2012. 
  • Won “Best Employee of the year 2012” in Apollo BGS Hospital, Mysore in 2012
  • Awarded Short Term Research Studentship on “Down’s syndrome” conducted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi in May 2003. 
  • Roy U, Jessani LG, Rudramurthy SM, Gopalakrishnan R, Dutta S, Chakravarty C, Jillwin J, Chakrabarti A. Seven cases of Saccharomyces fungaemia related to use of probiotics. Mycoses. 2017 Jan 1. 
  • Jessani LG, Nayak S, Lingam P, Devraj V, Parameswaran S, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V. Endotipsitis caused by extremely drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Tropical Gastroenterology. 2016 Jun 16;36(4):280-2. (http://dx.doi.org/10.7869/tg.310) 
  • Jessani LG, Gopalakrishnan R, Kumaran M, Devaraj V, Vishwanathan L. Scrub Typhus Causing Unilateral Optic Neuritis. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 2016 Jun 6:1-2 (doi: 10.1007/s12098-016-2169-0) 
  • Jessani LG, Patil S, Annapurneshwari D, Durairajan S, Gopalakrishnan R. Human ocular dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria repens: an underdiagnosed entity or emerging filarial disease?. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2016 Apr 30;45:177. 
  • Laxman G. Jessani, Vidyalakshmi, Abdul Ghafur titled “A study on comparative in vitro activity of carbapenem sparers against ESBL producing Enterobacteriaceae” in Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, March 2016
  • Laxman G. Jessani, Aumir Moin, Sivaprasad K, Keshavamurthy titled “Atypical Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) in Denovo late Post-partum Eclampsia” in Journal of Association of Physicians of India(JAPI), February 2016 
  • Sureshkumar R Gopalakrishnan, L Jessani : Congenital rubella syndrome exposure in a pediatric hospital: experience from developing world. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4(Suppl 1):P260 
  • Suresh D, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Laxman G Jessani titled “Ebola preparedness in South India: Is it in paper or in practice?” published in Journal of Patient Safety & Infection Control, volume 3, Issue 2. May- August, 2015 
  • Laxman G Jessani, V. Ramasubramanian, S. Nambi, S. Durairajan, R. Gopalakrishnan titled “Pulmonary mucormycosis” published in ESCMID online lecture library, 2015 
  • Jessani L, Thirunarayan M, Chakrabarti A D. Sureshkumar, A. Parameswaran ,R.Gopalakrishnan Disseminated phaeohyphomycosis presenting as chromoblastomycosisin an immunocompetent host: a rare manifestation F1000Research 2016, 5:540 (poster) (doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1111609.1) 
  • Jessani L, Patil S, Annapurneshwari D et al. Human ocular dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria repens: anunderdiagnosed entity or emerging filarial disease? F1000Research 2016, 5:541 (poster) (doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1111610.1) 
  • CIDS Life Membership
  • Associate Editor, CIDS Journal
  • IDSA society, USA
  • API Life member
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