CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

    Dr Kavitha Saravu teaches postgraduate students.

    She:

    • Is involved in the academic and clinical training of medical students and internal medicine postgraduate residents.
    • Guides postgraduate students in their dissertation.
    • Attends to outpatients and inpatients and supervises resident doctors and interns.
    • Guides PhD students.

SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING

Subject Semester / Year
Internal medicine

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree Specialisation Institute Year of passing
ICMR 365体育投注 Fellowship for Young Biomedical Scientists Translational 365体育投注 (Infectious Diseases) Yale School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 2013
Diploma Tropical Medicine and Hygiene London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Royal College of Physicians, England, UK) 2013
DNB General Medicine National Board of Examinations, New Delhi 2006
MD General Medicine Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, and King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 1998
MBBS Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore 1994

Experience

Institution / Organisation Designation Role Tenure
KMC,365体育投注 Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases 1/10/2019 till date
KMC, 365体育投注 Professor, Infectious Diseases 02/05/2015 to 30/09/2019
KMC, 365体育投注 Professor & Unit Head 01/03/2013 to 30/04/2015
KMC, 365体育投注 Additional Professor 16/07/2012 to 28/02/2013
KMC, 365体育投注 Associate Professor 13/10/2004 to 15/07/2012
KMC, 365体育投注 Assistant Professor 20/10/1999 to 12/10/2004
Seth G S Medical College and King Edward Memorial College, Mumbai Junior Resident 01/08/1995 to 31/07/1998

Scrub typhus: Clinico-epidemiological analysis, humoral immune response and Molecular characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi

2021-02-01

Principal investigator: in-progress research project funded by the SERB, New Delhi

Assessing the accuracy of point-of-care abdominal and thoracic ultrasound for the diagnosis and therapy monitoring in patients with presumed tuberculosis in India and Germany

2021-01-01

Principal investigator: in-progress research project funded by the DZIF, Germany

Towards a rapid biomarker-based rapid test for Tuberculosis

2019-08-01

Principal investigator of the ongoing project funded by the McGill 365体育投注 TB Center

Improving treatment outcomes in severe scrub typhus: a multicenter randomized controlled trial with pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics assessment and molecular characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi

2018-01-01

Principal investigator: in-progress Clinical Trial funded by the Christian Medical College, Vellore

Predictors of mortality in acute febrile illness requiring ICU care.

2014-01-09

Co-Principal Investigator of the study.

Elucidation of haematological profile with respect to disease severity in malaria – a tertiary care teaching hospital based cohort study.

2014-01-09

Co-Principal Investigator of the study

Clinico-Microbiology profile of infective endocarditis from a tertiary care hospital in India.

2014-01-02

Principal investigator of the study.

Acute kidney injury in Dengue-risk factors and outcomes.

2013-01-09

Co-Investigator of the study.

Assessment of fourteen days primaquine treatment efficacy by determination of long latency relapses in Plasmodium vivax.

2013-01-04

Principal investigator of the study

Assessment of acute kidney injury and other organ dysfunctions in falciparum and vivax Malaria in Kasturba Hospital, 365体育投注 – a retrospective study.

2012-01-01

Principal investigator.

Assessment of Malarial acute kidney injury in a tertiary care centre.

2012-01-09

Co-Principal investigator of the in-progress study.

Understanding the Epidemiology of Antimalarial Drug Resistance in Plasmodium vivax and Elucidation of Resistance Deterministic Host Factors for Antimalarial Drugs.

2011-01-09

Principal investigator: in-progress research project funded by the Indian Council of Medical 365体育投注, New Delhi.

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Area of Interest

Infectious Diseases, Malaria, Melioidosis, Acute Febrile Illnesses, HIV, Antimicrobial Resistance

Area of Expertise

Infectious Diseases, Malaria, Melioidosis, Tuberculosis, Acute Febrile Illnesses, HIV, Infections in the ICU, Antimicrobials

Area of 365体育投注

Malaria, Scrub typhus, Melioidosis, Tuberculosis, HIV

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

?1.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Clinical Infectious Disease Society –CIDS 158

2.????????????????? HIV Medical Association of India - LM / 2011-12 / 022

3.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??India CLEN-India Clinical Epidemiology Network

4.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??365体育投注 society of Infectious Diseases, ISID5.? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

5.????????????????? 365体育投注 Center for Infectious Diseases (MAC

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6.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 365体育投注 Melioidosis Society

7.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Indian Rickettsial Infections Study Network (IRISN)

8.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Governing Council member of Clinical Infectious Diseases Society?

9.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Editorial board member of BMC Infectious Diseases

10.? ? ? ? ? ? ?Editorial board member of PLOS Global Public Health

11.????????????? Vivax Working group

12.????????????? WWARN Vivax study group

Top Publications updated

2020-06-30

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A diagnostic randomised controlled trial to study the impact of rapid diagnostic tests in patients with Acute febrile illness when compared to conventional diagnostics (DRACO study)

Apr 08, 2021 Gupta N Joylin S Ravindra P Wilson W Bhat R Guddattu V Neumayr A Mukhopadhyay C Saravu K

J. Infect. 2021 Apr 8: S0163-4453(21)00164-X

Clinical and laboratory profile of patients with Kyasanur Forest Disease: A single-Centre study of 192 patients from Karnataka, India.

Jan, 2021 Nitin Gupta Kiran Chunduru Mohammad Safeer K Kavitha Saravu

J of clinical virology Jan 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104735

Neurological Melioidosis Presenting as Rhombencephalitis, Optic Neuritis and Scalp Abscess with Meningitis: A Case Series from 365体育投注ern India.

2021 Chattrejee A Saravu K Mukhopadhyay C Chandran V

Neurol India 2021; 69:480-3

Deep learning, computer-aided radiography reading for tuberculosis: a diagnostic accuracy study from a tertiary hospital in India

Nash, M., Kadavigere, R., Andrade, J. et al.

Sci Rep 10, 210 (2020)

Kyasanur Forest disease: State-of-the-art review

2020, Nov 16 Gupta N Wilson W Neumayr A Saravu K

QMJ.2020 Nov 16: hcaa310.doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcaa310

Performance of molecular and serologic tests for the diagnosis of Scrub typhus

2020 Nov 12 Kannan K, et al.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Nov 12;14(11):e0008747. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008747

Malnutrition as an important risk factor for drug-induced liver injury in patients on anti-tubercular therapy: an experience from a tertiary care center in 365体育投注 India.

2020 Ali N Gupta N Saravu K

Drug Discov Ther. 2020; 14(3): 135-138. doi: 10.5582/ddt.2020.03029

Over-the-counter antibiotic dispensing by pharmacies: a standardised patient study in Udupi district, India

Nafade V, Huddart S, Sulis G, Saravu K et al

BMJ Glob Health 2019;4:e001869. doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2019-00186

The haematological consequences of Plasmodium vivax malaria after chloroquine treatment with and without primaquine: a WorldWide Antimalari