Who’s behind VECCSI
Prof. Chandrasekar
Founder · Head, Emergency and Critical Care Unit, Madras Veterinary College
Over 25 years of teaching, research and clinical care. At Madras Veterinary College he started India’s first animal dialysis service, and he has helped set up dialysis services at several other veterinary universities.
He has equipped critical care units with modern technology, is widely published and is recognised internationally for his research. In 2024 SAPAC and FSPAI gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to education and research.
Hamsini Yagneswar
Co-founder · BVSc, DVM, DACVECC, MRCVS
Hamsini grew up caring for animals that had been through trauma and abuse. She graduated from Madras Veterinary College, TANUVAS as the professor’s student and completed international licensing exams.
She did her clinical training at Purdue University, an emergency internship in Phoenix, Arizona, and her emergency and critical care residency at the University of Minnesota – all in the USA. She became board-certified through the American College of Veterinary and Critical Care in 2018.
In the UK she was part of the team that built one of the country’s largest and busiest emergency and critical care services, at The Ralph Veterinary Referral Centre.
In 2023 she set up the Tata Trusts Small Animal Hospital, Mumbai, India’s first specialist-standard emergency hospital and intensive care unit. She has since worked as an ICU clinician at Blaise Referrals in Birmingham, UK, and is now setting up another hospital in India.
Since 2022 she has run hands-on workshops twice a year with a small group of instructors. Emergency Essentials is the next step: a structured year-long course so vets anywhere in India can learn what to do first, what not to do, and when to refer.
