Dr.Virendra Singh was born in 1954 in village Bhojasar in district of Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. His father was an administrative officer and his mother was a homemaker. During childhood, his mother gave him moral lessons. He received his early education studying in different and mostly government schools in Rajasthan. Thereafter, he sought admission in Sawai Man Singh Medical College for an MBBS degree in the year 1971 and qualified as a doctor. After an MD degree in Medicine, he received his professional qualification and training in asthma and respiratory diseases in England.People from different corners of Rajasthan and India come to Dr. Virendra Singh for the treatment and care of asthma and related respiratory diseases. He founded a charitable society named Indian Asthma Care Society (IACS) and launched an effective campaign against consumption of tobacco. The efforts bore fruition when the Supreme Court banned gutkha (chewable tobacco) on a petition moved by IACS. To promote preventive awareness among asthma patients, he began publishing a periodical known as Asthma Sanjeevani besides organizing several other patient-education programs. Presently he is the chief editor of the country's leading respiratory journal ‘Lung India By Dr. Virendra Singh Asthma Specialist Director, Asthma Bhawan Former Medical Superintendent, Senior Professor & Head Division of Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine, SMS Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India