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Rajendra Prasad (pulmonologist)

chest physician and professor of Pulmonary Medicine

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Source revisionFeb 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ65029447 ↗
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Rajendra Prasad is a chest physician and professor of Pulmonary Medicine based in Lucknow.

He received MBBS (1974) and MD (1979) degrees from King George's Medical College, Lucknow. After some time he joined same institution as faculty member and later became head of department of Pulmonary Medicine department of King George's Medical University. He also worked as director of U.P. Rural Institute of Medical Sciences and Research and Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute (University of Delhi). Now he is working as Director Medical Education and Professor & Head of Department, Pulmonary Medicine of Era University's ERA's Lucknow Medical College and also doing private practice at his clinic at Lucknow's Aliganj area.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rajendra Prasad (pulmonologist)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.