Dr. Antony Terance Benjamin

Dr Antony Terance Benjamin is a experienced paediatrician with expertise in childhood respiratory diseases, allergy and sleep medicine. He did his training in India and UK. He is one of the few paediatric respiratory specialists in Tamilnadu. He is a senior PG teaching faculty and has a number of publications in Indian and International Journals. He is also an invited expert faculty for various national and state level paediatric conferences and workshops. He along with Dr Ramganesh, Pathologist, played a key role in establishing the PCD diagnostic unit at GKNM hospital, the first such facility in South India. He works with a multi-disciplinary team to manage sick children efficiently

• MBBS, MD(Paediatrics)
• MRCPCH (UK)
• Diploma in Asthma & Allergy
• European Diplomate in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
• Diploma in Paediatric Sleep Medicine

• A study on Aetiology and outcomes of viral lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children from South India. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health 49.3 (2020): 218-222.
• Primary ciliary dyskinesia due to DRC1/CCDC164 gene mutation. Lung India. 2020 Mar 1;37(2):179-80
• Authored a chapter on “ Chest deformities in Children” in textbook – Differential Diagnosis in Paediatrics, 2019.
• A Novel Homozygous Nonsense HYDIN Gene Mutation p.(Arg951*) in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics 2019.
• Clinical, Immunological, and Molecular Findings in 57 Patients With Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) From India. Frontiers in immunology. 2019;10.
• Pleuro pulmonary blastoma presenting as bullous disease of the lung in an infant. Surgery: Case Report. 2018;2(2).
• Clinical, immunological, and molecular findings of patients with p47 Phox defect Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) in Indian families. Journal of clinical immunology. 2016 Nov 1;36(8):774-84.
• A study of the phenotype and genotype of children with cystic fibrosis diagnosed at a tertiary hospital in South India. Pediatric pulmonology 2016 Jun 1 (vol. 51, pp. S76-s76)
• Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency with a Novel Gene Mutation. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 2016 Aug 1;83(8):875-6.
• Heterozygous STAT1 gain-of-function mutations underlie an unexpectedly broad clinical phenotype. Blood. 2016 Jun 23;127(25):3154-64.
• Early Dimercaptosuccinic acid renal scan in children with first febrile urinary tract infection. Indian pediatrics. 2015 Apr 1;52(4):315-7.
• Drug allergy an Overview. Indian Journal of Practical Paediatrics, 2013; 15(3) : 179
• Meconium Ileus due to GUCY2C gene mutations in three unrelated South Indian families – Journal of Cystic Fibrosis – Volume 20, Issue – 5, September 2021.
• Service delivery models for primary ciliary dyskinesia, an international comparison – European Respiratory Journal 2021 58: PA3461; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2021.PA3461
• Co authored for “Atypical Bacterial Pneumonia” in IAP Standard Treatment Guidelines – 2022.

• First PCD diagnostic unit in South India
• Sri Sivasubramanium Oration 2018 “ Childhood Pneumonias – Pyogenic infections and beyond
• Performance excellence award 2018, GKNM Hospital, Coimbatore
• Topper Paediatric respiratory HERMES exam of European Respiratory Society, 2016
• ERS grant for Cystic fibrosis course 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
• Dr. Henry Claman gold medal 2009 , CMC Vellore, India