Profile Summary

Medical qualification : 

MBBS - Dr D.Y. Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai (December, 2006)

D.N.B. Medicine - Jaslok Hospital & Res. Centre, Mumbai (June, 2012)

D.N.B. Cardiology - Jaslok Hospital & Res. Centre, Mumbai (December, 2016)

Designation at JHRC : Consultant - Cardiologist

WORK EXPERIENCE: 

• Wockhardt hospital, Mumbai Central, Mumbai : as Junior Consultant from 1st July 2017 to 30th June 2018. 
• Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai  
• DNB MEDICINE FELLOW – July 2008 to June 2011 
• Emergency Medical Officer - 20th December 2011 to October 2012  
• SENIOR REGISTRAR in Cardiology – 5th November 2012 to July 2013  
• DNB CARDIOLOGY FELLOW - February 2014 to January 2017 

SPECIAL INTEREST 

• COMPLEX CORONARY INTERVENTIONS 
• STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE INTERVENTION 
• HEART FAILURE AND HEART TRANSPLANT WORKUP  

FOREIGN EXAMINATIONS 

Cleared MRCP PART 1 in Sept. 2013 with a score-713/900. 

Cleared MRCP PART 2 (written) in Dec. 2017with a score – 580. 

CERTIFICATE COURSES 

Infectious Disease Certificate Course by Hinduja Hospital in August 2013. 

Basic Life Support Provider Course by Lifesupporters Institute of Health Sciences on 25th June 2006. 

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Course at Jaslok Hospital in August 2012. 

Awards & Publications :

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS 

TEXT BOOKS 

• Contributed to P. J. Mehta’s ‘Practical Medicine for Students and Practitioners’ 20th Edition  

• Contributed to P.J. Mehta’s ‘Emergencies in Medical Practice’, 6th Edition. 

• Contributed to RSSDI Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus 3rd Edition  

• CTO Interventions – The Final Frontier. CSI Textbook 2019. Dr A B Mehta, Dr Nikesh Jain 

• Left Main Intervention – Has Debate settled yet. CSI Textbook 2020. Dr Ajit Desai, Dr Nikesh Jain  

• Hypertension Handbook – 2 chapters : 1. Essential and secondary HTN, and 2. Clinical features and investigations (To be published) 

• Constrictive pericarditis – PG cases in Cardiology. Dr Ajit Desai, Dr Nikesh Jain 

• Anomalous Coronary Interventions – CSI TB 2022. Dr Ajit Desai, Dr Nikesh jain 

 

REVIEW ARTICLES 

• Hypertension: Dyslipidemia and Hyperuricemia. Nihar Mehta, Nikesh Jain. HYPERTENSION SOCIETY OF INDIA MANUAL OF HYPERTENSION. 2015; 327 – 335. 

• Antiplatelet Therapy. Nihar Mehta, Nikesh Jain. API MEDICINE UPDATE 2016.  

 

DISSERTATIONS 

• “Prevalence and Predictors of Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis in Patients with Significant CAD” under guidance of Dr H.B. Chandalia and Dr S.C. Munsi. 

• “In Hospital outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for    chronic total occlusion” under guidance of Dr Ajit Desai and Dr Sham R Handa.  

 

CASE PRESENTATION

• Presented a case of LIMA CTO intervention at India Live conference February 2016. 

 

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS 

• • Awarded ‘Amar Gandhi Award for outstanding Resident’ in 2016 in Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre 

  • Awarded Resident of the Month for the month of February 2014 in Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre. 

Research and Conferences attended

Research 

• Predictors of success in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusion. Dr Ashwin B Mehta, Dr Nihar Mehta, Dr Rahul Chhabaria, Dr Vivek Mandurke, Dr Nilesh Tawade, Dr Nikesh Jain, Dr Ajit Desai, Dr S R Handa. Indian Heart Journal; 70(3), Dec 2018: S269-S274 

• Intraprocedural Stent Thrombosis : A case series of rare complication managed successfully. Dr Nikesh Jain, Dr Nilesh Tawde, Dr Nihar Mehta, Dr Ajit Desai, Dr A B Mehta. Journal Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research. 2019; 3(2): 31-36 

• Unilateral Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension – A case report of unusual presentation of CTEPH. Dr Nihar Mehta, Dr Nikesh Jain, Dr Sanjeev Vichare, Dr Ajit Desai. J Cardiol & Cardiovasc Ther. 2019; 14(4): 555892 

• Diagnostic utility and safety of intracoronary nicorandil as a hyperemic agent for the measurement of fractional flow reserve. Dr A B Mehta, Dr S R Handa, Dr Rahul Chhabria, Dr Nihar Mehta, Dr Nikesh Jain. (Accepted in IHJ) 

 

CONFERENCES ATTENDED 

• INDO-US Emergency Summit-2007 (Workshops on Trauma, Suture and Wound Care, Fracture Stabilisation, Emergency toxicological Resuscitation, Trauma Ultrasound, Emergency Abdominal Ultrasound). 

• CRITICON SHOCK 31ST OCT to 1ST NOV 2009, CRITICON RESPIRATORY MEDICINE, CRITICON CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM (occurred every 6mths). 

• GURUMED by Academy of Masters Teachers of Medicine at Holy Family Hospital, Bandra –Feb2012, Oct2011, June2011, May2010, March2009. 

• 4TH National Respiratory Update by Hinduja Hospital, 3rd to 5th Dec 2010. 

• APICON by API 6TH TO 9TH JAN 2011. 

• INFECON by Jaslok Hospital , 4th to 6th March 2011. 

• Update in Internal Medicine by Holy Family Hospital, Bandra, 18th June 2011. 

• Founders Day CME by Jaslok Hospital, July 2011 

• Clinico pathological meeting for Cyanotic and Acyanotic Congenital Heart Diseases held in Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in Mumbai in August 2013. 

• Master Clinical Teaching Programme – Attending regularly since 2013 which is being held quarterly at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre. 

• Cardiovascular Symposium by American College of Cardiology, Jan 2015 

• National Interventional council mid term meet – 3rd to 5th April 2015.  

• SPEED – clinical course at Sathya Sai Institute Bangalore. February 2016 

• Clinical Cardiology Update held in Madras Medical Mission in Chennai in January 2017 

• Cardiology Update in Clinics 2017 – SRMC Chennai. 

• India Valves 2017 – A comprehensive course on Transcatheter Valve Therapies. 

• Indian International Forum of Cardiology September 9th-10th 2017. 

• 5th Annual Advanced Cardiology Meeting by ESC 19-21 January 2018 

• India Live Conference 2018 

• NEED 2018 

• 12TH Best of ACC Cardiology Symposium May 2018. 

• India Valves Conference 2018 

• CSI 2018 as a Delegate 

• India Live 2019 – As Course Co-director/Faculty/ Organizing and Scientific committee 

• SCAI 2019 

• CAD conference 2019 

• Faculty – India Live 2023