Dr J C Suri

MBBS DNB MD - Pulmonary Medicine

• Pulmonologist by training, Prof JC Suri is a pioneer of critical care and sleep medicine in India.
• He worked at Safdarjung Hospital from 1984 to 2018, where he was instrumental in creating India’s first holistic Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Department, which he headed from 1990 to 2018. 
• Prof JC Suri set up the first physician run Intensive Care Unit in Northern India with the aim to provide integrated diagnostic, supportive and therapeutic services to critically ill patients.
• He is also regarded as the father of Sleep Medicine in India and is credited for establishing the first sleep laboratory in the country in 1990.