Name: Dr Nishant Kumar Chauhan

Age: 39 Years

Field of Specialisation: Pulmonary medicine and Critical care

Areas of Interest: Interventional Pulmonology, Lung cancer, Mechanical ventilation, Sleep- disordered breathing.

Present Designation: Associate Professor

Institution: All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur, , India Pin- 342005

Educational Qualification:

2009 MD (Respiratory Medicine) from GSVM Medical college, Kanpur.

2002 MBBS from LLRM Medical college, Meerut.

Professional Experience

2016- till date Associate Professor, AIIMS Jodhpur

2013- 2016 Assistant Professor, AIIMS Jodhpur.

2012-2013 Consultant pulmonologist in a corporate hospital

2009-2012 Senior residency from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

Professional Societies

Indian Chest Society- Life member

American College of Chest Physicians-Fellow

Publications

1. Dutt N, Mohapatra PR, Chauhan NK, Kuwal A, Chaudhry K. Quality of Life in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Ann Natl Acad Med Sci (India), 49(3&4): 132-142, 2013

2. Dutt N, Chaudhry K, Chauhan NK, Kuwal A, LK, et al. (2016) Health Related Quality of Life in Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea. J Sleep Disord Ther 5: 234 doi: 10.4172/2167-0277.1000234

3. Mishra M, Chaudhri S, Tripathi V, Verma AK, Sampath A, Chauhan NK. Weaning of mechanically ventilated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients by using non- invasive positive pressure ventilation: A prospective study.Lung India. 2014 Apr;31(2):127-33.

4. Chauhan NK, Mishra M, Singh S. Drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as mass lesion. BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Oct 29;2014.

5. Kuwal A, Dutt N, Chauhan NK, Kumar S, Purohit S, Saini LK. An Atypical Case of Mounier-Kuhn Syndrome: Time to Change the Diagnostic Approach?.Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology. 2016 Jun 30.

6. Kuwal A, Dutt N, Chauhan NK. Rheumatoid arthritis associated interstitial lung disease: 1 year is too much to exclude methotrexate-induced pulmonary involvement. Lung India 2016;33:467-8.

7. Kuwal A, Dutt N, Chauhan NK, Image-Guided Pleural Biopsy: Issue of the Expertise and Availability of the Resources. Respiration 2016;92:56-56

8. Chauhan NK, Sanwaria P,Singh S,Dutt N,Saini L,Kumar S,Kuwal A,Kant S,Verma AK. Correlation between FEV1 Percentage Predicted and 6 Minute Walk Distance In Patients of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease . Indian J Physiol Pharmacol 2017; 61(1) : 38–42

9. Saini LK, Chauhan NK, Panwar R, Dutt N, Saran S, Kant,Sharma PK. Primary Isolated Mediastinal Abscess Masquerading as Mediastinal Mass- A Needle did the Trick. Curr Respir Med Rev. 2017; 13(2): 119 – 122

Book Chapter

Complications Associated with Invasive Mechanical Ventilation in Obese Patients. In: Esquinas A., Lemyze M. (eds) Mechanical Ventilation in the Critically Ill Obese Patient. Springer 2018

International Presentations

1. Diffusion capacity of lung (DLCO) at rest as a predictor for exercise induced arterial oxygen desaturation in COPD patients "at ERS Congress at Vienna, Austria in 2009.

2. Correlation Between Percent Predicted Of Forced Expiratory Volume in First Second (FEV1 % Predicted) And Six Minute Walk Distance (6MWD) in Patients Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at ATS conference in San Francisco,USA in May 2016

3. Correlation Between Body Mass Index (BMI) And Forced Expiratory Volume in First

Second (FEV1 % Predicted) in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients at Union world lung conference in Liverpool, UK in October 2016

Invited Presentations/Faculty 1. Speaker at national conference of Bronchology and Interventional pulmonology, BRONCOCON 2015 held in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

2. Faculty at Post Graduate CME & Quiz held by Dept of Respiratory Medicine,JLN Medical College, in 2015

3. Faculty in sleep disorder workshop at NATCON 2015 held at King George Medical University, Lucknow, India

4. Speaker at APPICON 2015 held at AIIMS Jodhpur

5. Speaker at Spirometry workshop in APPICON 2016 held at AIIMS Patna

Research Projects

1. Principal Investigator in the project on Use of NBI videobronchoscopy in Lung cancer patients.

2. Co-Investigator of intramural project on Sleep quality, perceived stress and its impact on academic performance of medical students.

3. Co-investigator in the project on COPD in rural women exposed to biomass fuel

4. Co-investigator in the project on COPD and heart rate variability

International travel grant - UNION travel Scholarship from France for paper presentation at the 47th World lung conference held at Liverpool, U.K. in 2016

Administrative posts

Assistant Dean of Examinations

Member, Ethics committee (Student research)