Dr Chennapragada is a medical graduate with distinction honours from the University of Health Sciences in India. He underwent radiology training at Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad, India and Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India.

He came to Australia for training in Paediatric Radiology at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He then went for further fellowship training in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the University of Toronto in Canada. Since his return to Australia in 2006, he has been a consultant interventional radiologist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Gosford Hospital, and Sydney Adventist Hospital. He is one of the very few specialists in Australia with training and experience in treating both adults and children, using interventional radiology techniques.

Murthy performs a wide range of interventional procedures including embolisation, angioplasty, biopsies and vascular access. His has special interests in vascular malformations , renal vascular disease and dialysis access. He has been active in research, presented his work at local and international meetings He has published many interventional radiology papers in medical journals.

He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney. He has been associated with the Sydney Interventional Radiology since its inception.