Zarir Udwadia

Zarir Udwadia (born 1960) is an Indian pulmonologist and researcher. His work on drug resistant tuberculosis has led to improvements in India's National Tuberculosis Control Programme. Udwadia was the only Indian invited by the WHO to be part of the TB ‘Guidelines Group’, which formulated the 4th edition of the TB Guidelines, published in 2010.

Professional life Udwadia is a graduate of the Grant Medical College, Mumbai. Approximately 8,000 patients pass through his OPD annually. Udwadia established a Chest Medicine Department at the Hinduja Hospital in 1992, and the city’s first Sleep Laboratory in 1994. and has authored over 140 publications. It is the busiest outpatient clinic at the Hinduja hospital, There were only two other episodes of TDR-TB reported in the world before this- in Iran in 2009, and Italy in 2007. and a vocal advocate for newer diagnosis and treatment for TB patients.