Dr. Aishwarya R
Consultant - Infectious Diseases
MBBS, DM Infectious Diseases (AIIMS New Delhi), Dip. RCPath (UK)- Infection
Overview
Dr. Aishwarya completed her MBBS from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute in 2014. She pursued a 6-year integrated DM in Infectious Diseases from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences - New Delhi, which she graduated with a Gold Medal. She has served as Consultant Infectious Diseases at Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad and U N Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre, Ahmedabad during 2023 and 2024.
Her profound interest in infections in immunocompromised hosts subsequently led her to serve as Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases at IKDRC-ITS Ahmedabad till July 2025. Dr. Aishwarya’s expertise includes complex infections in immunocompromised hosts such as HIV or transplant recipients. She believes in meticulous and methodical evaluation and providing an evidence based, individualized care plan.
Area of expertise
- Transplant Infectious Disease
- Invasive Fungal infections
- Infective Endocarditis and implant associated infections
- Pyrexia of Unknown origin
- Tropical Infections
- Tuberculosis
- HIV and STIs
- Adult Immunization
Awards and recognitions
- Speaker at ‘Transplantation Update-2025’ conference
- Gold medallist- DM Infectious Diseases 2022
- Awarded Conference attendance for oral poster presentation at European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2021
- Runner up at National level Quiz conducted by CIDS at CMC, Vellore in 2017
- Poster presentations at Tropacon 2017, CIDSCON 2018, Mycocon 2019
Memberships
- Clinical Infectious Diseases Society
- European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
Paper Published
Books and Guidelines:
- Co-author and Co-editor: Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis guidelines and training module in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) and National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India- Released by the Honourable PM Shri Narendra Modi on World TB Day 2023
- Co-editor: South Asian edition of Bates Pocket Guide to physical examination and clinical guide, 2020
Papers
- Ramprasad A, Kodan P, Jonnalagadda K, Bir R, Verma N, Sahni K, Vikram NK, Soneja M, Mirdha BR, Wig N. Seroprevalence of Strongyloides infection among steroid recipients in a tertiary care centre in North India. Infez Med. 2022 Dec 1;30(4):593-601.
- Kodan, Parul & Gupta, Nitin & Ratna, Sumol & Ramprasad, Aishwarya & Ranjan, Sanjay & Nischal, Neeraj & Soneja, Manish & Wig, Naveet. (2020). Perinatal transmission in Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection: a cross-sectional study from a tertiary care center in North India. Le infezioni in medicina. 28. 227-230.
- Paul, Saurav Sekhar & Kumar, Rohit & Meena, Ved & Ramprasad, Aishwarya & Garg, Prerna & Keri, Vishakh & Singh, Komal & Dhir, Ankita & Sakthivel, Pirabu & Vig, Saurabh & Pandit, Anuja & Tiwari, Pawan & Singh, Gagandeep & Dhamija, Ekta & Soneja, Manish & Xess, Immaculata & Thakar, Alok & Bhatnagar, Sushma & Mohan, Anant & Wig, Naveet. (2021). Clinical Characteristics And Outcomes of 16 Cases With COVID19 and Mucormycosis: Experience From A Tertiary Care Center In India and Review of Literature. 10.21203/rs.3.rs-533347/v1.
- Arora, Umang & Priyadarshi, Megha & Katiyar, Varidh & Soneja, Manish & Garg, Prerna & Gupta, Ishan & Bharadiya, Vishwesh & Berry, Parul & Ghosh, Tamoghna & Patel, Lajjaben & Sarda, Radhika & Garg, Shreya & Agarwal, Shubham & Arora, Veronica & Ramprasad, Aishwarya & Kumar, Amit & Kumar, Rohit & Kodan, Parul & Nischal, Neeraj & Wig, Naveet. (2021). Novel risk factors for Coronavirus disease-associated mucormycosis (CAM): a case control study during the outbreak in India. 10.1101/2021.07.24.21261040.
- Arora, Umang & Priyadarshi, Megha & Katiyar, Varidh & Soneja, Manish & Garg, Prerna & Gupta, Ishan & Bharadiya, Vishwesh & Berry, Parul & Ghosh, Tamoghna & Patel, Lajjaben & Sarda, Radhika & Garg, Shreya & Agarwal, Shubham & Arora, Veronica & Ramprasad, Aishwarya & Kumar, Amit & Kumar, Rohit & Kodan, Parul & Nischal, Neeraj & Wig, Naveet. (2021). Risk factors for Coronavirus disease-associated mucormycosis. The Journal of infection. 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.12.039.
- Ramprasad, Aishwarya & Rastogi, Neha & Xess, Immaculata & Singh, Gagandeep & Ray, Animesh & Vikram, Naval. (2019). Disseminated Phaeohyphomycosis by Exophiala jeanselmei. QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians. 113. 10.1093/qjmed/hcz298.
- Ramprasad, Aishwarya & Baitha, Upendra & Kumar, Prabhat & Biswas, Ashutosh. (2018). Primary Sjögren's Syndrome without Sicca Symptoms: An Uncommon Entity. Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine. 19. 207-09.
- Ray, Animesh & Vikram, Naval & Ramprasad, Aishwarya. (2021). Extrapleural air versus pneumothorax: A close call. 10.4103/ijri.IJRI_492_20.
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