Dr Mehta has been Director of the Al-Sabah Arrhythmia Institute at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine for more than 15 years. He is world renowned physician in field of cardiac arrhythmias/Electrophysiology.
He is medical graduate from JLN Medical College Ajmer in Rajasthan and did MD in Internal Medicine from the prestigious Post-Graduate Institute in Chandigarh where he also worked in a faculty position for 2 years.
He did cardiology training from Leicester in United Kingdom. During this time he qualified to be a member of The Royal College of Physicians of London. He did cardiac electrophysiology fellowship from St Barthalomew’s and St George’s Hospitals of University of London and was awarded a PhD by the University of London for work on “Ventricular Tachycardia in patients with clinically normal heart”. His work was published in several high impact peer review journals including the Lancet, Journal of American College of Cardiology and Circulation. Following this he worked as establishing team of cardiologist at Escort’s Heart Hospital in New Delhi for 2 years and subsequently moved to the USA in 1990 on American Heart Association grant New Jersey Affiliates for investigation of mapping of ventricular tachycardia.
He joined the faculty of Mount Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine in 1992 as clinical cardiologist and electrophysiologist and is now a professor and Director of Section of cardiac Electrophysiology. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
He has extensively published and has more than 200 Manuscripts to his credit. He regularly lectures nationally and internationally. Field of research interest are physical maneuvers in treatment of supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular arrhythmias in patients with normal coronary arteries, QT interval in patients with Methadone therapy and diagnosis and prevention of Arrhythmias in patients with Cardiac Sarcoidosis.
He is on the national committee for expert consensus for the management of cardiac sarcoidosis. He is fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society and The Royal College of Physicians of UK.
He is on the list for New Yorks and Americas Best Doctors for over 20 years (best 5% physicians).