Dr. Ravindra M Mehta — Senior Consultant in Bengaluru

Dr. Ravindra M Mehta is a Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road, in Bengaluru, with more than 28 years of experience in pulmonology.

His list separates cleanly into three. The interventional work is diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, transbronchial needle aspiration, airway stenting and medical pleural procedures. The medical respiratory work covers severe asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis and complex pulmonary infection. The sleep work covers obstructive sleep apnea evaluation, polysomnography and CPAP titration.

He read MBBS at Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, University of Mumbai, and took an MD in internal medicine at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College in the same city. A second MD in internal medicine followed at the State University of New York at Brooklyn, and then three fellowships: pulmonary medicine at New York Methodist Hospital and the SUNY Health Science Center, and critical care medicine and sleep disorders medicine at New York Methodist Hospital.

That training is reflected in four American board certifications, in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine and sleep medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a Fellow of the American Association of Sleep Medicine.

Two items on his record stand apart from the clinical list. He has published over 150 professional papers, abstracts and book chapters in leading medical journals, and he established India's first interventional pulmonary program. He practises at Apollo Hospitals on Bannerghatta Road in Bangalore.