Dr. Swapnil Mehta

Professional Background:

• May 2019 till date : Consultant Pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at Dr. L. H. Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai

• January 2018 to May 2019 : Established the department and worked as Consultant Pulmonary, Critical care, and Sleep Medicine at Narayana super specialty Hospital, Gurugram.

Practiced areas: Internal Medicine, Airway diseases, Tuberculosis, Environmental lung diseases, Lung cancer, and Sleep Medicine.

• Experience in Microbiology Lab (culture media and antibiotic sensitivity).

• Interventional Pulmonology (Bronchoscopy procedures, EBUS-convex and radial probe, rigid. bronchoscopy, Stenting, APC, cryobiopsy, laser), Ward procedures (Thoracentesis, pleural and lung Biopsy, USG guided FNAC) & ICU procedures like central venous catheterization, Endotracheal intubation, ECMO and care of mechanically ventilated patients.

• Extensive training in the management of Medical ICU & High Dependence Unit with all monitoring equipment along with invasive & non-invasive mechanical ventilators.

• Monitoring & management of critically ill indoor patients in all specialties of medicine.

• Training in management of special disease symptomatic patients through specialized clinics like COPD clinic, MDR tuberculosis clinic, Lung cancer clinic, ILD clinic.

• Acquired an extended experience during the MD training period of three years with extensive knowledge of Internal Medicine, clinical pulmonology, tuberculosis, critical care, and sleep medicine.

Seminars & Workshops

• Poster Presentation in ACCP CHEST October 2012 Atlanta on ‘Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Presenting as Recurrent Spontaneous Pneumothorax in an Adolescent Male’

• Oral Presentation in BTS Winter Meet Dec 2012 on ‘Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) with and without retinopathy: a hospital-based study’

• Various CMEs and conferences on issues related to Pulmonology & critical care