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Dr. Rohit Mehtani

Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, School of Medicine, Faridabad.

Qualification: MD, DM
@amrita.edu

Bio

Dr. Rohit Mehtani, is among the few DM Hepatology trained doctors in the country. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh where he was the batch topper in the DM exit exams. He has been trained in Transplant Hepatology from the busiest living donor liver transplant centre in the country, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Saket and has experience of taking care of over 200 liver transplant recipients. He has a vast experience of over 5 years in treating patients with liver diseases and his areas of interests include acute liver failure (ALF), acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), autoimmune liver diseases including autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), liver diseases in pregnancy and liver transplant hepatology. He has a special interest and expertise in managing critically ill patients with liver diseases in the liver intensive care unit including those with ALF and ACLF. Dr. Rohit was actively involved in the development of neuromonitoring protocols for patients with liver diseases in the intensive care unit, which was also published in the prestigious journal Metabolic Brain Diseases. He is also a core member of the team formulating APASL guidelines for management of renal failure in ACLF.

Publications
Area Of Expertise
  • Fatty liver disease
  • Alcohol associated liver disease
  • Hepatitis B and C
  • Acute viral hepatitis
  • Autoimmune hepatitis
  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • Primary biliary cholangitis
  • Liver cancer (HCC)
  • Wilsons disease
  • Cirrhosis and portal hypertension
  • Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
  • Acute liver failure
  • Acute chronic liver failure
  • Portal vein thrombosis
  • Budd-Chiari syndrome
  • Liver abscess
  • Acute and chronic pancreatitis
  • Biliary obstruction
Qualification
  • MBBS: University College of Medical Sciences and G.T.B. Hospital ,Delhi University
  • MD Medicine: MGM Medical College and M.Y. Hospital, Indore ,Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University, Jabalpur
  • DM Hepatology: Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh
  • Fellowship in Transplant Hepatology: Max Superspecialty Hospital, Saket, New Delhi
Experience
  • Internship: Delhi University, UCMS & GTB Hospital, New Delhi (2014)
  • Junior Resident (MD): Department of Internal Medicine, MGM Medical College & M.Y. Hospital, Indore (2015-2018)
  • Senior Resident: Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences, New Delhi (Jul 2018-Dec 2018)
  • Senior Resident (DM): Department of Hepatology, PGIMER, Chandigarh (Jan 2019-Dec 2021)
  • Fellow: Transplant Hepatology, Max Superspecialty Hospital, Saket, New Delhi (Jan 2022-July 2022)
Awards
  • 1st Prize in All India Physiology Quiz (2009)
  • Best Postgraduate Student, Department of Medicine, MGM Medical College, Indore (2017)
  • 1st Position in Intra-State Rheumatology Quiz (2017)
  • Awarded Complimentary Registration for PG Course at APDW (2019)
  • Awarded Travel Grant to attend the 29th Annual Conference of Asia Pacific Association for Study of Liver Disease (APASL 2020)
  • Awarded complementary registration for International Digestive Disease Forum (IDDF) 2021
  • Awarded INASL-AASLD-2021 Registration Bursary (2021)
  • Batch topper in DM Hepatology Exit Exam (2022)
  • Awarded complementary registration for INASL 2022
Memberships
  • International Club of Ascites (ICA) (June 2020 – present)
  • American Association for Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) (December 2021 – present)
  • Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSI) (February 2022 – present)
  • Indian National Association for Study of Liver (INASL) (June 2022 – present)
  • Vascular liver Disease Group (VALDIG) (August 2022 – present)
  • International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) (September 2022 – present)
  • European Association for Study of Liver (EASL) (September 2022 – present)
  • Asia Pacific Association for Study of Liver (APASL) (March 2023 – present)
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