Founder, Dr Varun’s NEET Residential Campus · Founder and Managing Director, Rebuild India Medical Academy
MBBS, Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences
A physician who turned to education, Dr Varun led academics at Byju’s across more than sixty institutions and taught NEET as a Senior Professor at Unacademy before founding this campus. He also founded the Rebuild India Foundation, which educates 160 children free of cost at Noble International School, Bagalur. He designed our campus the way a good hospital is run — and brought together the doctors on this page to guide it.
Read his story →Co-founder, Rebuild India Medical Academy · Head of Medical Affairs, Eka Care
MBBS, KVG Medical CollegeMD, Community Medicine (JJM Medical College, Davangere)
Dr Sanjana is a public-health physician who bridges clinical medicine and health technology. She completed her MBBS at KVG Medical College, Sullia, and her MD in Community Medicine at JJM Medical College, Davangere, where she was a university rank holder. After early years in emergency and intensive care at Columbia Asia and Medsol hospitals, she now leads Medical Affairs at Eka Care, one of India’s largest connected-health platforms, and continues to consult as a diabetologist in Bengaluru. She has published research on obesity, artificial intelligence in healthcare and smartphone-based health monitoring, and co-authored Arjuna to You: The Bhagavad Gita for the Young Indian. As co-founder of the Academy, she brings a public-health view of what a healthy campus looks like.
Dr A. C. Sreeram
Hospital founder
Chairman and Co-founder, Mallige Hospital, Bengaluru
MBBSMD
Dr Sreeram has spent more than four decades building one of Bengaluru’s longest-standing hospitals. He co-founded the institution on Crescent Road in 1978 and, with his family, grew it into Mallige Hospital — today a 125-bed multi-speciality hospital accredited by NABH and NABL. He also chairs the Mallige School of Nursing, and has trained generations of nurses and young doctors. He brings to our campus a lifetime of experience in building a medical institution that patients trust.
Dr Gauri Sreeram
Radiology
Consultant Radiologist, Mallige Hospital, Bengaluru
MBBSMDFRCR (UK)Fellow, Obstetric Ultrasound
Dr Gauri Sreeram is a Consultant Radiologist at Mallige Hospital, Bengaluru. A Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in the United Kingdom — one of the most respected international qualifications in imaging — she also holds a fellowship in obstetric ultrasound and a postgraduate diploma in medico-legal systems. Her work is the quiet, exacting side of medicine: seeing what others cannot, and getting it right the first time. She shows our students a side of the profession they rarely hear about.
Associate Professor of Community Medicine, JJM Medical College, Davangere
MBBSMD, Community Medicine
Dr Rohit is Associate Professor of Community Medicine at JJM Medical College, Davangere, one of Karnataka’s oldest medical colleges, and researches the health of whole communities rather than one patient at a time. He has led studies published in international journals — including work with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease on support for families affected by tuberculosis. Having guided medical students through every year of the MBBS course, he knows exactly what the degree demands, and how a student should prepare for it.
Dr Balaji Laxminarayanshetty
Gastroenterology
Consultant, Medical Gastroenterology, Manipal Hospital Whitefield, Bengaluru
MBBSMD, General Medicine (PGIMER Chandigarh)DM, Gastroenterology (PGIMER Chandigarh)
Dr Balaji is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Manipal Hospital, Whitefield. He earned both his MD and his DM at PGIMER Chandigarh, one of India’s finest medical institutes, and completed a further year there in advanced endoscopy. His expertise covers therapeutic endoscopy, pancreatic and liver disease and inflammatory bowel disease. A life member of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology and the Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India, he has published more than fifteen papers in international journals and received a travel grant to Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2018.
RMDr Ramya Makan Rameshbabu
Obstetrics and gynaecology
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Shreyas Maternity Home, Hoskote, Bengaluru
MBBS, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical CollegeMS, Obstetrics and Gynaecology (JJM Medical College)
Dr Ramya is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Shreyas Maternity Home, Hoskote. She completed her MBBS at Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Kolar, and her MS in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at JJM Medical College, Davangere, and has spent more than a decade caring for women through pregnancy, childbirth and every stage of their health. Hers is the branch of medicine where clinical skill and human warmth matter equally, and where a doctor is present at the most important moments of a family’s life. For our students — many of them living away from home for the first time — she is a reassuring presence and a clear picture of what a life in medicine can be.
Dr Vallish B N
Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacologist and Medical Researcher, Chikkamagaluru
MBBS, Kempegowda Institute of Medical SciencesMD, Pharmacology (Grant Medical College, Mumbai)
Dr Vallish is a clinical pharmacologist and medical researcher based in Chikkamagaluru. After his MBBS at Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences and MD in Pharmacology at Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Hospital, Mumbai, he taught pharmacology to medical students for six years, rising to Associate Professor at Velammal Medical College. He now works in health economics and evidence research, and has authored fourteen papers in PubMed-indexed journals including the Indian Journal of Medical Research and Drug Safety. He understands, from the inside, how medicines are tested and how evidence is built.
Dr Manjunath C S
Fertility medicine
Founder, Baby Science IVF · Medical Director, Birla Fertility & IVF, Bengaluru
MBBS, JJM Medical CollegeMS, Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Bangalore Medical College)MTRM, Homerton University Hospital, London
Dr Manjunath is one of Bengaluru’s best-known fertility specialists. A rank-holder in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Bangalore Medical College, he trained further in reproductive medicine at Homerton University Hospital, London. In 2020 he founded Baby Science IVF and built it into a thirteen-centre network across three states before it joined the CK Birla Group’s Birla Fertility & IVF in 2024, where he is now Medical Director in Koramangala. He has chaired the Karnataka chapter of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction, won its national first prize in 2025 and 2026, and trained hundreds of gynaecologists.
Dr Puneet K Nagendra
Pulmonology
Consultant Pulmonologist · Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Dayananda Sagar University
MBBSDTCD, Sri Ramachandra Medical CollegeDNB, Respiratory Medicine
Dr Puneet is a consultant pulmonologist and allergy specialist with nearly two decades of practice in Bengaluru, and teaches respiratory medicine at Dayananda Sagar University’s medical college. He trained in chest medicine at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai, completed his specialist qualification in respiratory medicine in Bengaluru, and added training in pulmonary rehabilitation at John Muir Hospital, California. His practice combines modern bronchoscopy and allergy immunotherapy with yoga-based rehabilitation — a fitting match for a campus where every day begins with yoga on the lawn.
Dr Rajiv Lochan J
Liver transplant surgery
Lead and Senior Consultant, HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, KIMS Hospitals, Bengaluru
MBBS, JSS Medical CollegeMS, General Surgery (Bangalore Medical College, gold medal)FRCS (Edinburgh)MD, Newcastle University
Dr Rajiv Lochan is one of India’s most experienced liver transplant surgeons, with more than three decades in surgery. A rank-holder from JSS Medical College, Mysuru, and gold medallist in surgery from Bangalore Medical College, he spent fourteen years in the UK’s National Health Service, completing higher surgical training, a research MD at Newcastle University and fellowships at the Freeman Hospital and in Hong Kong. Back in Bengaluru he has led liver programmes at BGS Global, Aster and Manipal Hospitals, and today heads liver transplantation at KIMS Hospitals. A founder member of the Liver Transplantation Society of India, he has more than forty international publications and several national awards.
Dr Vidyadhar P Metri
Anaesthesiology
Senior Consultant, Liver Transplant Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, KIMS Hospitals, Bengaluru
MBBS, Al-Ameen Medical CollegeMD, AnaesthesiologyFellowship, Liver Transplant Anaesthesia (Medanta)
Dr Vidyadhar is a Senior Consultant in Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at KIMS Hospitals, Bengaluru, where he works alongside the liver transplant team led by Dr Rajiv Lochan. After his MD in Anaesthesiology he completed a fellowship in liver transplant anaesthesia and critical care at Medanta, Gurgaon. He has been part of more than 280 liver transplants, including paediatric and living-donor procedures, and has held consultant posts at Manipal Hospital Whitefield, Narayana Health and Sakra World Hospital. A life member of the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists, he is the doctor in the room when the stakes are highest.
Dr Sandesh Prabhu
Cardiology
Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, Manipal Hospital Whitefield, Bengaluru
MBBS, Mysore Medical CollegeMD, General Medicine (S.N. Medical College, Agra)DM, Cardiology (Grant Medical College, Mumbai)
Dr Sandesh Prabhu is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Manipal Hospital Whitefield, with more than eighteen years in medicine. He trained at Mysore Medical College, completed his MD at S.N. Medical College, Agra — where he won the Professor Mehrotra Award for clinical medicine — and earned his DM in Cardiology at Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Hospital, Mumbai, where he later served as Associate Professor. He previously headed Cardiology and Electrophysiology at Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Whitefield. His work spans complex angioplasty, pacemakers and heart-rhythm ablation. A life member of the Cardiological Society of India and the Indian Heart Rhythm Society, and a member of the American College of Cardiology, he has published research and written chapters in national cardiology textbooks.
Dr Rajan Sharma
Ophthalmology
Consultant Ophthalmologist and Cornea Specialist, Cornea Centre, Chandigarh
MBBSMS, Ophthalmology
Dr Rajan Sharma is an ophthalmologist and cornea specialist at the Cornea Centre, Chandigarh, one of North India’s dedicated corneal-disease practices. His clinical work centres on corneal transplantation and other sight-saving corneal surgery, including procedures for children, and he has trained in cornea services in both Chandigarh and Bengaluru. He is also a prolific researcher, with around thirty papers in journals such as the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, Cornea and the American Journal of Ophthalmology. He brings to our students the perspective of a surgeon who restores sight — and a scientist who publishes what he learns.
