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'''Zarir Udwadia''' (born 1960) is an [[India]]<nowiki/>n [[Pulmonology|pulmonologist]] and researcher.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43456442|title=India's 'tuberculosis warrior'|date=2018-03-24|access-date=2019-08-25|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="Aug 18">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/no-more-jabs-now-new-pills-to-treat-tb/articleshow/65446792.cms|title=No more jabs, now new pills to treat TB {{!}} Mumbai News - Times of India|last=Aug 18|first=Malathy Iyer {{!}} TNN {{!}} Updated|last2=2018|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-08-26|last3=Ist|first3=6:09}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/challenges-treating-drug-resistant-tb-india-170523133035639.html|title=The challenges of treating drug-resistant TB in India|last=Ubaid|first=Mir|website=www.aljazeera.com|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref> His work on drug resistant [[tuberculosis]] has led to improvements in India's National Tuberculosis Control Programme.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tbonline.info/posts/2016/3/26/right-dose-right-chance-indias-battle-drug-resista/|title=TB Online - The right dose, the right chance: India's battle with drug-resistant TB|website=www.tbonline.info|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref> Udwadia was the only Indian invited by the [[World Health Organization|WHO]] to be part of the TB ‘Guidelines Group’, which formulated the 4th edition of the TB Guidelines, published in 2010.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/177155/tuberculosis-day-chest-physician-health-india/|title='The Ticking Time Bomb': A Doctor on Whether TB Can Be Eliminated from India|date=2019-04-04|website=The Better India|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindujahospital.com/dr-zarir-f-udwadia/|title=Chest Physician in Mumbai - Dr Zarir F. Udwadia {{!}} P.D. Hinduja Hospital|website=www.hindujahospital.com|access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref | '''Zarir Udwadia''' (born 1960) is an [[India]]<nowiki/>n [[Pulmonology|pulmonologist]] and researcher.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43456442|title=India's 'tuberculosis warrior'|date=2018-03-24|access-date=2019-08-25|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="Aug 18">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/no-more-jabs-now-new-pills-to-treat-tb/articleshow/65446792.cms|title=No more jabs, now new pills to treat TB {{!}} Mumbai News - Times of India|last=Aug 18|first=Malathy Iyer {{!}} TNN {{!}} Updated|last2=2018|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-08-26|last3=Ist|first3=6:09}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/challenges-treating-drug-resistant-tb-india-170523133035639.html|title=The challenges of treating drug-resistant TB in India|last=Ubaid|first=Mir|website=www.aljazeera.com|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref> His work on drug resistant [[tuberculosis]] has led to improvements in India's National Tuberculosis Control Programme.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tbonline.info/posts/2016/3/26/right-dose-right-chance-indias-battle-drug-resista/|title=TB Online - The right dose, the right chance: India's battle with drug-resistant TB|website=www.tbonline.info|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref> Udwadia was the only Indian invited by the [[World Health Organization|WHO]] to be part of the TB ‘Guidelines Group’, which formulated the 4th edition of the TB Guidelines, published in 2010.<ref name="Aug 18"/><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/177155/tuberculosis-day-chest-physician-health-india/|title='The Ticking Time Bomb': A Doctor on Whether TB Can Be Eliminated from India|date=2019-04-04|website=The Better India|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindujahospital.com/dr-zarir-f-udwadia/|title=Chest Physician in Mumbai - Dr Zarir F. Udwadia {{!}} P.D. Hinduja Hospital|website=www.hindujahospital.com|access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref> He was also the only doctor to be named among India's best strategists.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/management-leaders/indias-best-strategists-15-dreamers-who-have-translated-their-insight-into-reality/the-big-healer/slideshow/22873998.cms|title=India's best strategists: 15 dreamers who have translated their insight into reality|website=The Economic Times|access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref> | ||
== Professional life == | == Professional life == | ||
Udwadia is a graduate of the [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals|Grant Medical College]], Mumbai.<ref name=":6" /> He spent five years training in the UK at various centres, including [[Royal Brompton Hospital|Brompton Hospital]], London.<ref name=": | Udwadia is a graduate of the [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals|Grant Medical College]], Mumbai.<ref name=":6" /> He spent five years training in the UK at various centres, including [[Royal Brompton Hospital|Brompton Hospital]], London.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> He practices at the [[P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre]] and the [[Breach Candy Hospital]], in Mumbai.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tedxgateway.com/portfolio/zarir-udwadia/|title=Dr.Zarir Udwadia|website=TEDxGateway - India's Largest Ideas Platform (Mumbai, India)|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/health/scepticism-shrouds-india-s-tuberculosis-target/story-bcyM89SKSxBhtHXxNL9O2L.html|title=Scepticism shrouds India's tuberculosis target|date=2017-12-11|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref> Approximately 8,000 patients pass through his OPD annually.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://longitudeprize.org/people/dr-zarir-f-udwadia|title=Dr Zarir F Udwadia {{!}} Longitude Prize|website=longitudeprize.org|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://everylifecounts.ndtv.com/1-indian-dies-tuberculosis-every-minute-no-one-immune-says-expert-15867|title=1 Indian Dies Of Tuberculosis Every Minute, No One Is Immune, Says Expert|last=Taneja|first=Richa|date=2017-08-01|website=Everylifecounts.NDTV.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref> Udwadia established a Chest Medicine Department at the Hinduja Hospital in 1992, and the city’s first Sleep Laboratory in 1994.<ref name=":6" /> He serves on the editorial board of [[Thorax (journal)|Thorax]], a respiratory medicine journal,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thorax.bmj.com/pages/editorial-board/|title=Editorial Board|website=Thorax|language=en|access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref> and has authored over 140 publications.<ref name=":3" /> | ||
== Drug-Resistant tuberculosis == | == Drug-Resistant tuberculosis == | ||
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While the [[World Health Organization|WHO]] eventually said that defining resistance beyond XDR-TB was not recommended,<ref name=":5" /> Udwadia's research drew the attention of the medical community to the growing epidemic of drug-resistant TB.<ref name=":0" /> The coordinator of the WHO's [[Stop TB Partnership|STOP TB]] department called his findings a wake up call.<ref name=":9" /> His research eventually led to improvements in the way TB is managed in India, and elsewhere, and forced the government to make changes to the state-run TB control initiative, or the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme.<ref name=":1" /> The government increased the budget for the program, and dispatched rapid GeneXpert machines, which can conduct highly sensitive molecular diagnostic testing.<ref name=":5" /> | While the [[World Health Organization|WHO]] eventually said that defining resistance beyond XDR-TB was not recommended,<ref name=":5" /> Udwadia's research drew the attention of the medical community to the growing epidemic of drug-resistant TB.<ref name=":0" /> The coordinator of the WHO's [[Stop TB Partnership|STOP TB]] department called his findings a wake up call.<ref name=":9" /> His research eventually led to improvements in the way TB is managed in India, and elsewhere, and forced the government to make changes to the state-run TB control initiative, or the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme.<ref name=":1" /> The government increased the budget for the program, and dispatched rapid GeneXpert machines, which can conduct highly sensitive molecular diagnostic testing.<ref name=":5" /> | ||
He continues to be an outspoken critic of the government's failures to address the TB problem,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mushtaq|first=Ammara|date=2018-11-01|title=United to end tuberculosis|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(18)30416-8/abstract|journal=The Lancet Respiratory Medicine|language=English|volume=6|issue=11|pages=818–819|doi=10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30416-8|issn=2213-2600|pmid=30297271}}</ref> and a vocal advocate for newer diagnosis and treatment for TB patients.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/health/multi-drug-resistant-tb-bedaquiline-deaths|title=TB Killed Shreya Tripathi, But Her Death Could Have Been Avoided|website=The Wire|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref | He continues to be an outspoken critic of the government's failures to address the TB problem,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mushtaq|first=Ammara|date=2018-11-01|title=United to end tuberculosis|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(18)30416-8/abstract|journal=The Lancet Respiratory Medicine|language=English|volume=6|issue=11|pages=818–819|doi=10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30416-8|issn=2213-2600|pmid=30297271}}</ref> and a vocal advocate for newer diagnosis and treatment for TB patients.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":7" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/health/multi-drug-resistant-tb-bedaquiline-deaths|title=TB Killed Shreya Tripathi, But Her Death Could Have Been Avoided|website=The Wire|access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||