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Shine Kochukunju Raju, MD

Shine Kochukunju Raju, MD

  • Specialty: Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
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  • Languages Spoken: English, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali

Biography: Shine Kochukunju Raju, MD

Expertise

  • Asthma
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
  • Interstitial Lung Diseases
  • Lung Cancer
  • Ultrasonography

Titles

  • Assistant Professor, CWRU School of Medicine

Certifications & Memberships

  • Critical Care Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Pulmonary Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Internal Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine

Education

Fellowship | Geriatric Medicine
Geriatric Medicine - Uh Cleveland Medical Center (2017 - 2018)

Fellowship | Pulmonary/Critical Care
Pulmonary/Critical Care - Cleveland Clinic (2014 - 2017)

Residency | Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine - University Of Connecticut Health Center (2011 - 2014)

Medical Education
Medical College Thiruvananthapuram (2009)

About

Shine K. Raju, MD is a board-certified, fellowship-trained pulmonary and critical care physician in the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at University Hospitals and an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is also fellowship-trained in geriatric medicine.

Dr. Raju’s special clinical interests include airway diseases such as asthma and COPD, lung cancer and advanced bronchoscopy. He currently serves as the Director of the Pulmonary Function Lab and Pulmonary Rehabilitation at University Hospitals.

After obtaining his medical degree at the Medical College Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India, Dr. Raju completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut in Farmington. He then further advanced his training, earning fellowships in pulmonary medicine and critical care and geriatric medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and UH Cleveland Medical Center, respectively. He is also certified in critical care echocardiography and teaches the critical care point-of-care ultrasound curriculum to pulmonary and critical care fellowship trainees at UH.

Dr. Raju is involved in several ongoing research projects and is the author and co-author of multiple peer-reviewed publications and abstracts related to his areas of expertise. He is a member in good standing of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), where he serves as a member of the palliative and end-of-life steering committee. Dr. Raju has a unique passion for engineering and prototype development and is the inventor of a disinfection platform called HAADS, and has a provisional patent to his credit.

Fluent in English, Hindi, Malayalam and Bengali, Dr. Raju sees patients at the UH Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio.