Laboratory Medicine

Shaila Khubchandani

Dr. Shaila Khubchandani

Consultant
Department
Laboratory Medicine
Qualification

M.B.B.S., M.D. (Pathology) 

Fellowship
  • Fellowship in Surgical and Bone Pathology (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA)
  • Fellowship in Stereotactic Brain Biopsies (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany)
  • Fellowship in Transplant liver pathology (Department of Histopathology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK)
  • Fellowship in Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway)
  • Fellowship in Nephropathology (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA)
Experience

42+ years

Bio:

Dr. Shaila Khubchandani is a Consultant Surgical Pathologist and Electron Microscopist at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation.

Dr. Khubchandani completed her M.B.B.S. from the prestigious Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai in 1978. Then, she pursued M.D. (Pathology) at the same institution. She trained in Nephropathology with Dr. B. Colvin at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.

Dr. Khubchandani has served as Lecturer and Reader at Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, where she taught undergraduate and postgraduate M.D. students and conducted the undergraduate examinations. She has guided many D.N.B. (Pathology) students and has been mentoring D.N.B. Nephrology postgraduate students for the past three decades, many of whom are renowned specialists in India and worldwide.

Dr. Khubchandani has been practicing since 1989, with special interest in nephropathology and electron microscopy. She has performed over 26,000 renal biopsies using all modalities, including light microscopy, immunofluorescence, and electron microscopy.

She has co-authored a book titled “Interpretation of Renal Biopsies,” published by the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre; following a research project titled ‘Study and follow up of 5336 renal biopsies.’

She is a member of various national and international medical organisations, and has authored multiple papers and received various orations. Dr. Khubchandani is involved in teaching Nephropathology through conferences and seminars.

Awards:

  • V.R. Khanolkar Prize for First Rank in Pathology during second year of M.B.B.S.
  • P.V. Gharpure Prize and Gold Medal (Bombay University) for being the valedictorian during M.D.
  • R.G. Dhaygude Prize for the Best Autopsy Study
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