Dr Ram Gopalakrishnan

30+ Years Experience

MD., MRCP(UK), AB(Int Med) AB(Infectious Dieseaes) American Certificate(Tropical Medicine),FIDSA | Infectious Disease Specialist

English | Tamil

Overall Rating 4.60

Apollo Hospitals Greams Road Chennai

# , , , ,

Get Hospital Directions

Select Date

> Loading available days...

Available Slots:

Book Appointment Request Appointment

Overview

Dr. Ram Gopalakrishnan is a highly esteemed Infectious Disease specialist based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, with an impressive experience of 30 years in the field. He holds multiple qualifications, including an MD, MRCP, AB in Internal Medicine, AB in Infectious Disease, FIDSA, and FESCMID, showcasing his deep expertise and commitment to advancing medical knowledge. As a male doctor, Dr. Gopalakrishnan is not only dedicated to providing exceptional patient care but also plays an active role in research and education within his specialty. He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Tamil, allowing him to communicate effectively with a diverse patient population.

Throughout his career, Dr. Gopalakrishnan has received several prestigious awards. Notably, he was the recipient of the 14th Maj Gen CSV Subramanyam Memorial Lecture Award in 2007, and he was honored as the 'Best Doctor' by the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University on July 1, 2012. Additionally, he earned the First Prize from the API for Dr. JC Patel and BC Mehta Best Paper award in 2013 for his impactful research on 'Melioidosis: An Emerging Infection in India'.

Dr. Ram Gopalakrishnan practises at Apollo Hospitals, where he brings his wealth of experience and knowledge to his patients, addressing complex infectious diseases with a personalized approach. His dedication to advancing medical science and improving patient outcomes makes him a leading figure in his field. Whether you are dealing with common infections or complex diseases, Dr. Gopalakrishnan is committed to providing the highest standard of care.

Experience

Senior Consultant,Institute of Infectious Diseases Apollo Hospitals Greams Road Chennai
Consulting Physician (Dec 1997-Dec 00)Capital Family Physicians, Frankfort, Kentucky, USA (Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease &Travel Medicine)
Fellow(July 1995-June 97)Division of Infectious Disease, Dept of Internal Medicine Wright State University School of Medicine Dayton, Ohio, USA
Resident(July 1993-June 95)Dept of Internal Medicine Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Senior House Officer(April 1992-May 93)Bromley Health Authority Kent, UK
Senior Resident(July 1991-Oct 91)Dept of Internal Medicine Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh, India
Junior Resident(July 1988-Jun 91)Dept of Internal Medicine Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh, India
Internship(July 1986-June 87)Government General Hospital, Madras, India

Memberships

Academic and Society responsibilities:

Fellow, Infectious Disease Society of America (from 2015)
Fellow, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (from 2017)
Adjunct Professor, Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University (from 2011)
Adjunct Professor & Distinguished Clinical Tutor,
Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation
Mentor, Fellowship Programs in Infectious Disease,National Board of Examinations and Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University Apollo Hospitals, Chennai (from 2009)
Examiner, Exit examination for fellowship program in Infectious Diseases, Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University (from 2012)
Editorial Board Member, ICMR Committee, Antimicrobial Agents Prescription Guidelines
Past President, Clinical Infectious Diseases Society (India) (CIDS) from 2013-2015
Editor, CIDS Newsletter (from June 2014)
Organizing Secretary, 2nd Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Diseases Society, Chennai (CIDSCON 2012)
Chairman, Scientific Committee, 5th Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Diseases Society, New Delhi (CIDSCON 2015)

Memberships:

Member, Fungal Infection Study Forum (FISF)
Member, International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers (from 2001)

Reviewer for:

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology (from 2014)
Medial Mycology (from 2016)
Abstracts, ECCMID (European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) from 2015
Abstracts, CIDSCON 2017

Research and Publication

Medical Journal Publications:

Gopalakrishnan R, Hawley HB, Czachor JS, Markert R, Bernstein JM. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection & colonization in the intensive care units
of two community hospitals: a study of 143 patients. Heart Lung 1999:28,134-41.
Czachor JS, Gopalakrishnan R. Co-existentMycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection and gouty arthritis in a renal transplant recipient. Kidney & Blood Pressure Research 1997: 20, 62-63.
Gopalakrishnan R. Antiretroviral therapy in the 1990s. Antimicrobics & Infectious Diseases Newsletter, July 1996.
Gopalakrishnan R, Easow JM. East African sleeping sickness in Chennai. J Assoc Physicians India 2003:51, 302-3.
Swamikannu M, Ramakrishnan S, Williams S, Vaidehi T, Gopalakrishnan R. A case of pneumococcal septic arthritis complicating rheumatoid arthritis. Ind J Clin Practice 2003:13, 36-37.
Rajagopalan RE, Arunkumar AS, Bhagwati AM, Divatia JV, Gopalakrishnan R, et al. Guidelines for the Prevention of Infections Associated with the Use of Vascular Catheters in Indian Intensive Care Units- executive summary of recommendations. Indian J Crit Care Med 2003; 7 (Sup 1), S3-16.
Gopalakrishnan R. Pulmonary cavitary disease due to Mycobacterium fortuitum and Nocardia species co-infection: a case report. Apollo Hosp Proc 2004: 2, 118-119.
Sanjay S, Annigeri RA, Gopalakrishnan R. Refractory hyperkalemia due to trimethoprim, successfully treated with fludrocortisone. J Assoc Physicians India 2007: 55, 74-75.
Gopalakrishnan R. The evolving role of bronchoscopy in the evaluation of pulmonary infections in the critical care unit. Indian J Bronchology 2007: 2, 128-129.
Gopalakrishnan R. HIV/AIDS- Surgical aspects in 2009. Cutting Edge Newsletter on Head & Neck Surgery March 2009, Issue no 3.
Senthur Nambi P, Suresh Kumar D, Gopalakrishnan R. Influenza vaccines. Indian J Pract Pediatrics 2010;12(4):372-376.
Gopalakrishnan R, Sureshkumar D. Changing trends in antimicrobial susceptibility and hospital acquired infections over an 8 year period in a tertiary care hospital in relation to introduction of an infection control programme. J Assoc Physicians India 2010; December (special issue) 58: 25-31.
Sunil Kumar KS, Narasimhan A, Gopalakrishnan R, Geetha N, Thirunarayan MA, Suryanarayanan P. Coccidiodomycosis in Chennai. J Assoc Physicians India 2011;59:122-124.
Gopalakrishnan R. Intra-abdominal infections: do we need to change our antibiotic coverage in this era of Gram negative resistance? J Assoc Physicians India 2011;59:1.
Sureshkumar D, Gopalakrishnan R. Drug susceptibility pattern of M.tuberculosis isolated from patients attending a private hospital. Am J Infect Dis 2011; 7 (4): 104-106.
Shareek, P.S., D. Sureshkumar, Gopalakrishnan R, V. Ramasubramanian, K. Abdul Ghafur, M.A. Thirunarayanan. Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern of Blood Isolates of Acinetobacter Species in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective Analysis. Am J of Infect Dis 2012;8 (1): 65-69.
Vidyalakshmi PR, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur K,
Senthur Nambi P, Thirunarayana MA. Clinical, Epidemiological and Microbiological Profile of Patients with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci from a Tertiary Care Hospital.J Global Infect Dis 2012 ;4 (2):137-138.
A Ghafur, V Nagvekar, S Thilakavathy, K Chandra, Gopalakrishnan R, PR Vidyalakshmi. "Save antibiotics, save lives": an Indian success story of infection control through persuasive diplomacy. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2012, 1:29.
Gopalakrishnan R, P Senthur Nambi, V Ramasubramanian, K Abdul Ghafur, Ashok Parameswaran. Histoplasmosis in India: Truly Uncommon or Uncommonly Recognised? J Assoc Physic India 2012; 60:25-28.
Ghafur A, Mathai D, Muruganathan A, Jayalal JA, Kant R, Chaudhary D,Prabhash K, Abraham OC, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Shah SN,Pardeshi R, Huilgol A, Kapil A, Gill JPS, Singh S, Rissam HS, Todi S, Hegde BM, Parikh P. “The Chennai Declaration”. Recommendations of “A roadmap to tacklethe challenge of antimicrobial resistance- Ajoint meeting of medical societies of India”. Indian J Cancer 2012;49(4):85-94.
Ghafur A, Shareek PS, Nambi PS, Vidhyalakshmi PR, Ramasubramanian V, Parameshwaran A, Thirunarayan MA, Gopalakrishnan R. Mucormycosis in patients without cancer: a case series from a tertiary care hospital in South India. J Assoc Physic India 2013;61:11.
Ashwini Choudhary, Gopalakrishnan R, Senthur Nambi P, Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur K, Thirunarayan MA. Antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella enterica serovars in a tertiary care hospital in southern India. Indian J Med Res April 2013; 137:800-802.
Dorairajan Sureshkumar, Gopalakrishnan R, MA Thirunarayanan. In vitro activity of tigecycline in the era of NDM-1. American Journal of Microbiology 2012;3 (2): 42-44.
Gopalakrishnan R, Sureshkumar D, Thirunarayan MA, Ramasubramanian V. Melioidosis: an emerging infection in India. J Assoc Physic India 2013;61:24-26.
Babu AK, Gopalakrishnan R, Sundararajan L. Pulmonary cryptococcosis: an unusual presentation. Lung India 2013;30(4):347-350.
Sureshkumar D, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur K, Ramasubramanian V. Vancomycin creep among methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a report. American Medical Journal 2013; 4 (2): 197-200.
Co-author of Chennai Declaration Team. “Chennai Declaration”: 5 year plan to tackle the challenge of anti microbial resistance. Indian J Medical Microbiology 2014;32:221-8.
Ravikant Porwal, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Naga Jawahar Rajesh, V. Ramasubramanian. Carbapenem resistant Gram-negative bacteremia in an Indian intensive care unit: A review of the clinical profile and treatment outcome of 50 patients. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine November 2014 Vol 18 Issue 11, page 820-823.
Vidyalakshmi Devarajan, P. Senthur Nambi, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Alagesan Murali. Scrub Typhus in Hospitalized Children: A Missed Entity? Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 2015; vol 23 (March), issue 2: 89-90.
Ram Gopalakrishnan. Role of Pneumococcal Vaccine in HIV Infected Population. J Assoc Physic India 2015; Vol 63 special issue: 43-44.
R Madhumita, Swati Gohel, Lata Vishwanathan, Ram Gopalakrishnan. Liver lesions, fever and eosinophilia caused by Fasciola hepatica in a 15 year old girl. Indian J Pediatr (October 2015) 82(10):967–968.
Vaishali Shah, H. Ganapathy, Ram Gopalakrishnan, N. Geetha. A Rare Case of Facial Palsy Due to Mucormycosis. International Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, 2015, 4, 224-228.
Raman Gaikwad, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Sheela Nagusah, D Sureshkumar, V Ramasubramanian. Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection: Time to Switch to Once-Daily Regimens? J Assoc Physic India 2015;63:15-17.
Alagesan M, Gopalakrishnan R, Panchatcharam SN, Dorairajan S, Mandayam Ananth T, Venkatasubramanian R. A decade of change in susceptibility patterns of Gram-negative blood culture isolates: a single center study. GERMS. 2015;5(3):65-77. doi: 10.11599/germs.2015.1073.
Laxman G. Jessani, Satish Nayak, Preethi Lingam, Vinay Devraj, Sarojini Parameswaran, Ram Gopalakrishnan, V Ramasubramanian. Endotipsitis caused by extremely drug-resistant Klebsiellapneumonia. Tropical Gastroenterology. 2016 Jun 16;36(4):280-2. (http://dx.doi.org/10.7869/tg.310)
D 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.
Laxman G Jessani, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Muthu Kumaran, Vinay Devraj, Lata Vishwanathan. Scrub typhus: a rare cause of unilateral optic neuritis. Indian J Pediatr (November 2016) 83(11):1359–1360.
Vinay D, V Ramasubramanian, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Laxman G Jessani. Botryomycosis in a lung cavity: a case report. Lung India 2016; 33(5):540-542.
Ram Gopalakrishnan. Immune compromised states. Special supplement issue on Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Prevention. J Assoc Physic India 2016; December, Vol 64:40-42.
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 1-6.
Sukhwani KS, Bansal N, Soni M, Ramamurthy A, Gopalakrishnan R. Enterococcal meningitis in association with Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome. GERMS. 2017;7(1):28-31. doi: 10.18683/germs.2017.1105
Madhumitha R, C Jagadeesh, Aditya V, Neeraj Sharma, P Senthur Nambi, Ram Gopalakrishnan. Isolated renal mucormycosis in an apparently healthy immune competent adult. Int J Med Health Sci. April 2017,Vol-6;Issue-2:124-126.
Arjun R, Gopalakrishnan R, Nambi PS, Kumar DS, Madhumitha R, Ramasubramanian V. A study of 24 patients with colistin resistant Gram-negative isolates in a tertiary care hospital in South India. Indian J Crit Care Med 2017;21:317-21.
Arjun Rajalakshmi, Ram Gopalakrishnan, P Senthur Nambi, P Vishnu Rao, V Ramasubramanian. Listeria in Adults – Truly Rare or Rarely Diagnosed in India? J Assoc Physic India 2017;65:106-108.
P.Vishnu Rao, Anil Tarigopula, Nitin Bansal, Nandini Sethuraman, Ram Gopalakrishnan. Clinical profile of respiratory viral infections: A study from tertiary care centre of South India, Indian J Med Spec. (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.injms.2017.06.003
Swati G, Gopalakrishnan R, Sureshkumar D, Senthur Nambi P, Ramasubramanian V. A case series of cryptococcal infections in immune competent hosts. J Contemp Clin Pract. 2017;3(2):64-69. doi: 10.18683/jccp.2017.1026.
Arjun R, Ghafur A, Devarajan V, Senthur Nambi P, Ramasubramanian V, Suresh Kumar D, Gopalakrishnan R. A cluster of cases of melioidosis following floods in Chennai, India. J Contemp Clin Pract. 2017;3(2):50-56. doi: 10.18683/jccp.2017.1024.
Murali A, Shankar JG, Nambi S, Shanthakumar S, Nambi AR, Gopalakrishnan R. Non Hodgkin's lymphoma of B cell type with hemophagocytosis in a patient with HIV infection. Open J Clin Med Case Rep. 2017; 1306.
Murali A, Koushik V, Gopalakrishnan R, Nambi PS. IRIS due to cryptococcal meningitis ten years after the initial episode in a HIV positive patient with a high CD4 count and suppressed viral load – A case report. Open J Clin Med Case Rep. 2017; 1316.
Nitin Bansal, Kalpesh S Sukhwani, Suresh Kumar D, P. Senthur Nambi, Ram Gopalakrishnan & V Ramasubramanian. Clinical efficacy and safety of cefepime–tazobactam in hospitalized patients in South India. Infectious Diseases, 2017; VOL. 0, NO. 0, 1–4.
Vishnu RP, Bansal N, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Madhumitha R, Nambi S, et al. Epidemiology, Clinical Features and Outcome of Hospitalised Patients with H1N1 Influenza in Chennai, India. Austin Virol and Retrovirology. 2017; 4(1): 1026.
Human Fascioliasis: Diagnosis by typical computed tomography features and response to Nitazoxanide in 16 patients from India. Tropical Gastroenterology (in press)
Gopalakrishnan R, Sethuraman N, Madhumitha R, Sukhwani K, Bansal N, Poojary I, Chakrabarti A. Cladophialophora bantiana brain abscess: A report of two cases treated with voriconazole. Indian J Med Microbiol 2017;35:620-2.

Other Publications :

Taking a ride on thme wild side. The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/Taking-a-ride-on-the-wild-side/article14620048.ece.
Straight to Walong. Sanctuary Asia. Vol 36, No 12, Dec 2016, 76-79. http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/index.php.
The mysterious Mishmi Hills. Hornbill (July-Sep 2017).
Birding in the ‘Wild East’ of India. Sanctuary Asia. Vol 37, No 4, April 2017, 62-65.
In the garden of the gods. The Hindu, Aug 23, 2017. http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/travel/beyond-the-humdrum-of-deh….
The Holy Trail of Grandalas. Sanctuary Asia http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/index.php.
Bhutan: Land of Gross Birding Happiness. Saevus (in press)

List of Treatments

Std Check Up Treatment
sexually-transmitted-disease-std-treatment

List of Conditions Treated

Glandular Disease
Staph Infection
Ringworm Infection
Sexually Transmitted Infection
Cellulitis
Fever
HIV AIDS
Hepatitis C
Hpv
Anthrax
Babesiosis
Dracunculiasis
Cryptosporidiosis
Read More
Plague
shingles
Sporotrichosis
Post Exposure Prophylaxis For Hiv
Rubella
Taeniasis
Salmonellosis
Scarlet Fever
Schistosomiasis
Leishmaniasis
Leptospirosis
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Travel Vaccination And Consultation
tuberculosis
Strongyloidiasis
Stis

Client Reviews

Sabbir Ahammed Hridoy

Good doctor
Makarand Deshmukh

Excellent doctor