Dr. Vasif Mayan M C

At Aster Medcity, Kochi, Dr. Vasif Mayan M C serves as Associate Consultant in Infectious Diseases.

His clinical interests include international travel related health advisories and vaccinations. He has contributed to peer-reviewed medical literature.

Departments and Clinical Programmes

• Infectious Diseases & Travel Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Tropical and emerging infectious diseases
• Multidrug-resistant bacterial infections
• Invasive fungal and viral infections
• Transplant and immunocompromised host infections
• Infectious Disease Immunology and Immunodeficiency Management
• HIV and Sexually transmitted infections
• Antimicrobial stewardship and AMR
• Hospital infection prevention and control
• Travel medicine and Adult immunisation
• Molecular diagnostics and genome sequencing
• Device and hardware-associated infections
• Biofilm-associated infections
• Therapeutic drug monitoring and Precision medicine
• Devices and Prosthetic hardware associated Infections
• Adult Immunisation
• Travel Medicine and International Travel advise

Education and Training

• MBBS
• MD (Internal Medicine)
• DM (Infectious Diseases)

Memberships and Professional Roles

• Member of ESCMID (since 2024); Member, API (since 2023); Member, IMA (since 2018)

Awards and Recognitions

• First Rank, DM in Infectious Diseases, Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS), with Distinction (2025)
• First Rank, MBBS, Kerala University, with 8 Gold Medals (2011)
• Best Outgoing Student and Best Allrounder of MBBS batch (2012)
• 1st Prize, Best Research Poster - AIDS Society of India (ASI) National Conference, for "Connecting the Dots with the Clots - HIV and Deep Vein Thrombosis" (2024)
• 1st Prize, Best Research Paper - National Conference on Students' Medical Research, for work on clinical efficiency of the Measles vaccine (2010)
• 2nd Runner-up, Torrent Young Scholar Award - Best Postgraduate Student in Internal Medicine, National Level (2017)
• Selected Fellow, ESCMID Observership in Transplant Infections - Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío (HUVR), Sevilla, Spain
• Multiple oral and poster presentations at national infectious diseases and internal medicine conferences
• Multiple prizes in national-level medical quiz competitions across MBBS, MD, and DM training
• Appointed District Nodal Officer for Wayanad district by the Government of Kerala for two major outbreak responses - Nipah virus (2018) and COVID-19 (2020-2022) - a recognition of clinical and public health leadership at state level

Languages Spoken

English, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Arabic