Best Interventional pulmonologist in Vizag

Brief Profile

Dr. Anirban Deb is a Senior Consultant Interventional Pulmonologist at CARE Hospitals, Visakhapatnam, with 26 years of experience in managing complex respiratory conditions. He completed his MBBS from Medical College, Kolkata, and MD in Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases from Government Medical College, Amritsar. Dr. Anirban Deb has undergone specialized training in Thoracoscopy at Indiana University, USA, Interventional Bronchoscopy at Sainte Marguerite Hospital, France, and Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) through the European Respiratory Society. His expertise spans a wide range of respiratory diseases, including COPD, ILD, lung cancer, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and pleural effusion. He is also highly skilled in Interventional Pulmonology, performing bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy, EBUS, airway tumor resection, tracheal stenting, and balloon bronchoplasty. Additionally, he specializes in sleep disorders, offering diagnostic polysomnography and CPAP therapy for sleep apnea. A published researcher, Dr. Anirban Deb has contributed to leading medical journals and is an active member of prestigious national and international respiratory societies. Fluent in Telugu, English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, and Punjabi, he is dedicated to providing advanced and patient-centric pulmonary care.

Field(s) of Expertise

• Consultation for Respiratory Diseases including Multispeciality Special Clinics focussing on difficult-to-treat diseases, Lung Cancer
• Attending Respiratory Emergencies and Critical Care patients (including Ventilated patients, patients on NIV, HFNC)
• Interventional Pulmonology - Diagnostic & Therapeutic Flexible & Rigid Bronchoscopy, Flexible & Rigid Thoracoscopy, EBUS, doing Point of Care Lung Ultrasound & USG guided Pleural Interventions
• Consultation for patients with Respiratory Sleep Disorders, Level 1 Attended Polysomnography (Sleep Studies), Hypertension-Sleep clinic, and Wearable device diagnostics (including Non cuffed ABPM, Watchpat Technology), PAP Therapy
• Running PFT services - Spirometry, DLCO, Lung Volumes, FENO, FOT / IOS, CPET
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation – Pulmonary Rehabilitation with special focus on Chronic Respiratory Diseases

Research and Presentations

• Thesis (MD) - A Study of the Effect of Salbutamol Nebulization on ECG in Patients of Bronchial Asthma.
• Co-Guide of Thesis (Assistant professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, HIMS, Dehradun)-Study of the morphological pattern of Bronchopulmonary lesions using various cytological techniques.

Publications

• Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci. 2003 Oct-Dec;45(4):273-6. Wood-smoke exposure: an unusual cause of miliary mottling on X-ray chest. Saini V, Nadal R, Kochar S, Mohapatra PR, Deb A. Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India. saini_vks@yahoo.com. A case of wood smoke inhalation-related lung disease presenting with miliary mottling on radiography is described. Transbronchial lung biopsy showed the presence of coal macules. PMID: 12962464 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
• Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci. 2003 Apr-Jun;45(2):131-3. Mediastinal widening in a patient of ulcerative colitis. Mohapatra PR, Das SK, Deb A, Saini V. Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh. A case of ulcerative colitis on long-term corticosteroid therapy presenting with mediastinal widening and diagnosed to have mediastinal lipomatosis on thoracic computed tomography is presented. PMID: 12715937 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
• Lancet. 2002 Nov 2;360(9343):1430 Second-line treatment for chronic tuberculosis. Mohapatra PR, Janmeja AK, Saini V, Das SK, Deb A. Publication Types: Comment Letter PMID: 12424025 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
• Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis- a case report Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, Volume 10 (6), November 2003, Page 353-354. Tahlan A, Bal A, Harsh Mohan, Saini V, Deb A.
• Brief Communications: Evaluation of the usefulness of Phage Amplification Technology in the diagnosis of patients with paucibacillary tuberculosis. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, Volume 26, Number 1, January-March 2008, Page 75-78. D Biswas, A Deb, P Gupta, R Prasad, KS Negi PMID: 18227605 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
• Recurrent massive hemoptysis due to penetrating aortic ulcer, intramural hematoma and aorto-bronchial fistula treated with endovascular stent-graft: a case report. Chirurgia 2010 December; 23(6):289-91 Sibasankar D., Anirban D., Stalin V. Indexed/Abstracted in: EMBASE, Scopus (P.ISSN 0394-9508, E.ISSN 1827-1782)

Education

• MBBS – Medical College, Kolkata (1992)
• MD (Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases) – Government Medical College, Amritsar (1999)
• Thoracoscopy (Training- Indiana University School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonology, USA, 2008)
• Interventional Bronchoscopy (Training- Thoracic Endoscopy Unit, Sainte Marguerite Hospital Marseille, France, 2008), especially in therapeutic Rigid & Flexible Bronchoscopy in Lung Cancer.
• Endobronchial Ultrasound –  Three part Certification course (Theory, Clinical, Simulation & Supervised training) by European Respiratory Society, 2018

Languages Known

Telugu, English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi

Fellowship/Membership

• European Respiratory Society
• American Thoracic Society
• American College of Chest Physicians
• American Academy of Sleep Medicine
• International Association for Study of Lung Cancer
• Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Indian Chest Society
• Indian Association of Bronchology
• National College Of Chest Physicians
• Indian Society of Lung Cancer
• Indian Medical Association

Past Positions

• House Physician, Department Of Medicine, @ Medical College, Kolkata (1992-1993)
• Resident Medical Officer, @ Department of Medicine, Guru Teghbahadur Hospital & Research Centre, Kolkata (1993-1996)
• Junior Resident @ Department of Chest & Tuberculosis, Government Medical College, Amritsar (1996-1999)
• Senior Resident @ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College, Chandigarh (1999-2002)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun (1992-2004)
• Consultant Pulmonologist, Seven Hills Hospital, Visakhapatnam (2004-2012)
• Consultant Pulmonologist, Ruby General Hospital (2012-2019, 2021-2025)
• Consultant Pulmonologist, Desun Hoapital (2023-2025)
• Consultant Pulmonologist, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Cancer Institute (2022-2025)
• Consultant Pulmonologist, Kolkata Heart Lung Centre (2024-2025)