Dr. Jayaraman Chandrasekhar is an accomplished physician specializing in pulmonary disease, critical care, and sleep medicine, with extensive experience in clinical leadership and academic medical education. He earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) from Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute in Madras, India, in 1993, followed by an internship completed in 1994. After training in general medicine and intensive critical care across municipal and specialty hospitals in Bombay, Dr. Chandrasekhar moved to the United States to complete his internal medicine residency at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center from 1998 to 2001. He subsequently completed a clinical fellowship in critical care medicine at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine in 2003, as well as a pulmonary medicine fellowship at Lenox Hill Hospital in 2005, which included specialized lung transplant training at Columbia University Medical Center.

In July 2005, Dr. Chandrasekhar relocated to California, initially practicing with San Joaquin Valley Pulmonary Medical Group and later serving as a staff physician at Wasco Medical Plaza through 2008. He established his private pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine practice in Bakersfield in July 2008. Over more than a decade at Kern Medical—affiliated with the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine—Dr. Chandrasekhar served as Clinical Instructor, Medical Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, Division Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine from 2014 to 2019. For his teaching excellence, he was awarded Kern Medical’s Best Faculty Award in consecutive years (2014–2016) and named Outstanding Mentor of the Year in 2019.

In November 2022, Dr. Chandrasekhar expanded his practice into acute tele-critical care with Intercept Telehealth. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Pulmonary Medicine, he is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (F.C.C.P.) and an active Medical Board of California Expert Reviewer.