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Dr. Bharath A. Chhabria
Assistant Professor
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Medical College
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Department
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Bharath A is an expert Pulmonologist and Critical care physician with over 7 years of experience. He completed his MBBS from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and moved to Chandigarh to pursue his higher medical education MD Internal Medicine and DM Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine from the prestigious Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER, Chandigarh), which is one of the premier institutes in the country for postgraduate medical education and a WHO collaborating center for research & capacity building in chronic respiratory diseases. There after he honed his skills in the field of Interventional Pulmonology including advanced bronchoscopies which are novel ways to treat complex pulmonary diseases at PGIMER, trained by renowned pulmonologists of India and he also acquired the training in diagnosing and treatment (targeted and Immunotherapy) of Lung cancers
Qualifications
- DM Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 2021
- MD Internal Medicine
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 2017
- MBBS
Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), Bangalore, 2013
Experience
Total Years of Experience7 Years 11 Months
Academic Experience
- 6 years 7 months of teaching, clinical and research experience in PGIMER, Chandigarh
- 1 year 4 months of teaching, clinical and research experience in Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore
- Interventional Pulmonology
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Pulmonary Infections
- Critical Care Medicine
- Hospital Acquired Infections
- MD Internal Medicine – Topper
National Conference Papers
- Chhabria BA, Muthu V, Sehgal IS, Gupta N, Dhooria S; The chicken egg conundrum: What came first? The cyst or tuberculosis
International Conference Papers
- Chhabria B, Sharma A, Agarwal R, Muthu V. An unusual cause of massive hemoptysis: The demise of clinical history and a teachable moment from a fatal case. Lung India: Official Organ of Indian Chest Society. 2019;36(4):365-6
- Tripathi PP, Sharma RR, Chhabria B, Hans R, Sehgal IS. Therapeutic Plasma Exchange: A Lifesaving Therapy in Case of ANCA-associated Vasculitis with Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021; 25 (7):828-829
- Chhabria BA, Subramanium PB, Nampoothiri R, Bhalla A, Varma S. Sturge-Weber Syndrome. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research: JCDR. 2017;11(2):Oj05-oj6
- Chhabria BA, Agarwal R, Garg M, Gupta N, Bal A, Dhooria S, et al. A rare cause of airway obstruction: Mediastinal cyst secondarily infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lung India: Official Organ of Indian Chest Society. 2018;35(5):421-4
- Rao, Harshith; Chhabria, Bharath A; Dhooria, Sahajal; Muthu, Valliappan; Agarwal, Ritesh; Sehgal, Inderpaul Singh. Barrier enclosure device to sample difficult to access lesions by endobronchial ultrasound during the pandemic. Lung India 39(3):p 308-309, May–Jun 2022. | DOI: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_737_21
International Journal Papers
- Chhabria BA, Prasad KT, Dhooria S, Muthu V, Aggarwal AN, Agarwal R, Gandra RR, Sehgal IS. A randomized controlled trial comparing non-invasive ventilation delivered using neurally adjusted ventilator assist (NAVA) or adaptive support ventilation (ASV) in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. J Crit Care. 2023 Jan 19;75:154250. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2022.154250. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36680884.
- Deivasigamani S, Aruni A, Chhabria B, Irrinki S. Empyema necessitans – An unusual cause of necrotising fasciitis of the breast. Tropical Doctor. 2022;52(1):153-156. doi:10.1177/00494755211064117
- Ashok Kumar Pannu, Gauri Jangpangi, Bharath Chhabria, Vikas Suri, Ashish Bhalla, Savita Kumari, Acute febrile illness with choreoathetosis: a rare presentation of brucellosis, Postgraduate Medical Journal, Volume 98, Issue e1, February 2022, Pages e25–e26, Click Here
- Chhabria B, Arora N, Chahal S, Kumar Pannu A, Muthu V, Kumar M. SARS-CoV-2 infection, pulse oximetry, and interpretive caveats. Tropical Doctor. 2022;52(4):593-595. doi:10.1177/00494755221094983
- Dhibar DP, Chhabria BA, Gupta N, Varma SC. Isolated Splenic Cold Abscesses in an Immunocompetent Individual. Oman medical journal. 2018;33(4):352-5
- Chhabria BA, Nampoothiri RV, Gawalkar AA, Jain S. Janeway lesions. QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians. 2017;110(7):471-2
- Nampoothiri RV, Sreedharanunni S, Chhabria BA, Jain S. Visceral Leishmaniasis: Kala-azar. QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians. 2016;109(5):347-8
- Rastogi P, Chhabria BA, Sreedharanunni S, Pannu A, Varma N, Varma S. Leprosy and bone marrow involvement. QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians. 2017;110(3):189-90
- Chhabria BA, Bhalla A. Tongue Fasciculations in Organophosphate Poisoning. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016;375(23):e47
- Chhabria BA, Pannu AK, Bhalla A. Venous thrombo-embolism: thalidomide and leprosy. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine. 2017;110(6):383-4
- Gawalkar AA, Tale S, Chhabria BA, Bhalla A. Myocarditis and purpura fulminans in meningococcaemia. QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians. 2017;110(11):755-6
- Tale S, Chhabria BA, Gawalkar AA, Banavath HN, Bhalla A. 'Sleeping under the starry sky'-cysticercal encephalitis. QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians. 2017;110(12):833-4
- Chhabria BA, Nampoothiri RV, Nambiyar K, et alA quintessential syndrome with a rare marvelling aetiology: Rosai-Dorfman disease presenting as Conus-Cauda syndromeCase Reports 2018;2018:bcr-2017-222398
- Chhabria BA, Bhalla A, Shafiq N, Kumar S, Dhibar DP, Sharma N. Lipid emulsion for acute organophosphate insecticide poisoning - a pilot observational safety study. Clinical Toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa). 2019;57(5):318-24
- Indian Chest Society
- Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)
- American Thoracic Society
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