Sanjeev M. Raman, MBBS, MD

Sanjeev M. Raman, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary Division, University of Utah School of Medicine. He has been a faculty member in the Pulmonary Division since 2009, when was recruited to the University of Utah to expand its Lung Transplant Program.

Dr. Raman specializes in the evaluation and care of patients with advanced lung diseases and focuses most of his clinical and research effort on lung transplant recipients. He is one of four transplant pulmonologists in the state of Utah. He is a member of the International Society Of Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), and is actively involved in various working groups of the ISHLT that collectively publish practice guidelines relevant to the field of lung transplantation.

His other clinical and research interests include emphysema/ chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and he is the primary bronchoscopist and co-investigator for the University of Utah Clinical Center for SPIROMICS ( SubPopulations And InteRmediate Outcome Measures In COPD Study). SPIROMICS is a multi-center study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the COPD Foundation, and supports the prospective collection and analysis of phenotypic, biomarker, genetic, genomic, and clinical data from subjects with COPD for the purpose of identifying subpopulations and intermediate outcome measures. Since 2009, it has enrolled approximately 3200 patients across the U.S.

Dr. Raman is an attending physician at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics and provides care to patients on the Pulmonary Medicine inpatient service, the Pulmonary Consult service, as well as the Medical Intensive Care Unit.


In addition to his clinical activities, he is actively involved in the teaching and training of University of Utah Fellows, Residents and medical students. He is also the Medical Director of the pulmonary inpatient service, and the "pulmonary ward", and is involved in quality improvement and safety measures.

Dr. Raman was born and raised in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, and attended medical school at Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals. He subsequently received his medical degree from the University of Mumbai in Mumbai, India. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Michigan State University/ Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He then underwent fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and at the lung transplant program at The Methodist Hospital, Houston.

He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and in the subspecialties of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is also certified by the Educational Commission For Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG).