Hitesh Batra MD MBA
Critical Care Medicine, Interventional Pulmonology, Pleural Disease, Thoracic Oncology
Director, Interventional Pulmonology and Pleural Disease Program; Program Director, Fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology University of Alabama at Birmingham
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1900 University BlvdTHT 422Birmingham, AL 35294
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Summary
- I am an Interventional Pulmonologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I established and currently serve as the director of the UAB Interventional Pulmonology and Pleural Disease Program and also the UAB fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology. My academic interests are early lung cancer detection and treatment, malignant pleural effusions, and central airway obstruction.
Education & Training
Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2017 - 2018
Collat School of Business at University of Alabama at BirminghamMBA, 2014 - 2017
University of Alabama Medical CenterFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2012 - 2015
Louisiana State University School of MedicineResidency, Internal Medicine, 2009 - 2012
Delhi University College of Medical SciencesClass of 2008
Certifications & Licensure
AL State Medical License 2012 - 2025
MD State Medical License 2017 - 2018
American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine- American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 1 citationsSurvey of Clinical Knowledge and Procedural Readiness of Pulmonary Fellows to Start Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship: A Survey of Interventional Pulmonary Fellowshi...Benjamin DeMarco, Harold Ibanez, Cheryl Pai, Hitesh Batra, Angela Christine Argento
Journal of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology. 2024-10-01 - 3 citationsThe Need for Ergonomics Training in Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship.Christopher Di Felice, Pallavi Sharma, Maroun Matta, Sonali Sethi, Michael Machuzak
ATS Scholar. 2024-03-01 - 4 citationsInterventional Pulmonary Fellowship Training: End of the Beginning.Hans J Lee, Jason A Akulian, A Christine Argento, Hitesh Batra, Carla Lamb
ATS Scholar. 2023-12-01
Press Mentions
UAB Medicine First in Alabama to Offer Cone Beam CT Imaging During Robotic BronchoscopiesMarch 2nd, 2022
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