Dr. Jasvinder Singh Sandhu

Deputy Director - Nephrology

Job Experiences

  • Registrar Medicine – DMC Ludhiana
  • Resident-trainee medicine – PGI Chandigarh.
  • Short-term trainee Dialysis – PGI Chandigarh.
  • Senior lecturer medicine (nephrology unit) – DMC Ludhiana.
  • DM trainee, Department of nephrology – PGI Chandigarh.
  • Lecturer in nephrology – Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana
  • Reader in nephrology – Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana.
  • Professor of nephrology – Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana.
  • Professor and head, Department of nephrology – Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana
  • Director Nephrology – AYKAI Hospital, Ludhiana.
  • Deputy Director Nephrology – SPS Hospital

Area of Expertise

  • Nephrology
  • Honor Degree & HSM

Academic Awards

  • Best Teacher Award – Student feedback in 1997, 2001 & 2002 at DMC Ludhiana
  • Award of Fellowship Indian Society of Nephrology 2007
  • Award of Dronacharya Nephrology, 2019

Memberships

  • Member International Society of nephrology- since 1997
  • Member American Society of Nephrology-  A0268260
  • Life member Indian Society of Nephrology –1985, L-192
  • Life member Indian Society of Haemodialysis
  • Life member Indian Society of Organ Transplantation- LM-503
  • Life member North Chapter of Indian Society of Nephrology  
  • Life member Punjab Nephrology Society
  • Life member Association of Physicians of India- L-10531
  • Life member Indian Medical Association
  • Fellow Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine-F-217

Research Work

  • Acute renal failure in intensive cares units – A one-year prospective study.
  • Acute poisoning – Five year retrospective and one year prospective study.
  • Study of acute renal failure – Changing trends over the years – A ten-year retrospective and one year prospective study.
  • Study of haemodynamic alterations before and after AV fistula in chronic renal failure.
  • Clinical efficacy of low dose of erythropoeitin in chronic renal failure.
  • Study of Superoxide dismutase, Melondialdehyde, Copper and zinc in diabetes mellitus with and without complications.
  • Study of reactive oxygen species in cirrhosis with and without acute renal failure.
  • Lipid profile before and after renal transplantation.
  • Study of Homocysteine, insulin and body mass index in type2 diabetes mellitus with and without complications.
  • Study of retina before and after renal transplantation in diabetes mellitus.
  • Evaluation of renal arteries and renal function in-patients undergoing coronary angiography.
  • Oral GTT and insulin levels in patients of CRF and effect of hemodialysis.
  • Study of beta2 micro globulin in chronic renal failure and effect of dialysis.
  • Effect of alpha-adrenergic agonists (Salbutamol and Terbutaline) on serum potassium in chronic renal failure.
  • Cochlear function in-patients of chronic renal failure on conservative therapy and renal transplantation program.
  • Clinical profile of hepatorenal syndrome.
  • Homocysteine and oxidative stress in diabetic nephropathy and the effect of folic acid.
  • Study of actinology, clinical presentation and treatment of admitted patients of hypercalcemia.
  • Evaluation of renal dysfunction in haematological malignancies.
  • Doppler evaluation of acute renal allograft dysfunction.
  • Study of hypokalemia paralysis.
  • Study of acute renal failure due to tropical infections.
  • Study of Cystatin S in acute renal failure.
  • Prospective study of renal biopsies- clinicopathological correlation.
  • Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in chronic kidney disease. A cross sectional observational study.
  • Study of peripheral artery disease before and after renal transplantation.
  • A prospective study of clinic-pathological profile in lupus nephritis.
  • Clinical profile of mineral bone disease in stage 3-5 CKD- A prospective study.
  • Prospective study on the predictors of short term outcomes of renal allograft recipients
  • Prospective study on prediction of the outcomes of RPGN.
  • Study on the cardiac structural and functional changes before and after renal transplantation.

Conferences Attended

  • Many (59) National and (12) International Conferences attended as well (11) organized.

Papers Presented/ Read/ Session Chaired in Conferences

  • Many (36) National and (17) International Conferences attended.

Publications

  • Many (57) National and (24) International Conferences attended.