Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy, MD

Biography

Dr. N. Kumarasamy is the Chief & Director of Infectious Diseases Medical Centre at Voluntary Health Services (VHS) Hospital in Chennai and directs the clinic which provides medical care for persons with HIV, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, COVID and other Infectious Diseases in Chennai, Southern India. 

Dr. Kumarasamy is the Director of the Chennai Antiviral Research and Treatment (CART) Clinical Research Site  which conducts Therapeutics and  Prevention clinical trials in Infectious Diseases. He is involved as Clinical Investigator for several on- going clinical research projects with University of California-San Diego, Brown University- Providence, Harvard University-Boston, USA, University of New South Wales/Kirby Institute -Sydney, Australia, AMFAR/Treat Asia, World Health Organization and Indian Council of Medical Research.  

Dr. Kumarasamy is a clinician and a researcher in Infectious disease with more than 25 yrs of experience and has published more than 450 manuscripts in peer reviewed medical journals. He has conducted several landmark Antiretroviral clinical trials which had impacted Treatment Guidelines. His publications on Impact of Antiretroviral therapy has led to several Antiretroviral scale up programs in developing countries. Dr. Kumarasamy is an advisor and expert panel member for World Health Organization - ARV Treatment guidelines committee and a Clinical advisor to Clinton Health Access Initiative. He has a particular interest on the long term impact of Antiretroviral Therapy in resource limited settings. 

Dr. Kumarasamy is the Head of Department of VHS COVID Treatment and Vaccination Centre. He is serving as a member of COVID National Task Force for Clinical Research and Drug Development.  
A full list of published work is available here.

Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy
Position
Voluntary Health Services, Infectious Diseases Medical Centre, India