Dr. Neel Thakkar - CONSULTANT- PULMONARY MEDICINE

Brief Bio:

Dr. Neel Thakkar is an experienced Pulmonologist and Critical Care specialist with over a decade of expertise in managing complex respiratory and ICU cases. He holds advanced qualifications from Bombay Hospital, P.D. Hinduja Hospital Mumbai, Paris, and the University of Virginia, USA. He has contributed to over 40 research presentations and publications in leading journals like CHEST and ERJ. Recognized with the Times of India Icons of Vadodara Award (2025) and the CHEST Foundation Research Award (2019), he is also a National Governing Body Member of the Indian Chest Society (2025-2027). Passionate about community health, he actively conducts BLS training, awareness drives, and deaddiction campaigns across Gujarat.

Areas of Medical Interest:

• Complex respiratory and critical care cases
• ARDS and respiratory failure
• Advanced pulmonary and pleural interventions - Flexible bronchoscopy, biopsies, TBNA, EBUS-TBNA, balloon dilation, foreign body extraction, pleural tapping. ICD insertion, whole lung lavage
• Sleep medicine - All types of sleep studies and management of OSA and complex sleep disorders
• Lung infections - Non-resolving pneumonia, rare infections. and drug-resistant tuberculosis

Clinical Expertise:

• Evidence-based and ethical medical practice
• Sleep medicine and respiratory diagnostics
• Interventional pulmonology procedures
• Management of chronic respiratory diseases
• Community health education, BLS training, and deaddiction
• initiatived
• Interstitial Lung diseases and Pulmonary hypertension
• Lung transplantation
• Critical Care Management and Ventilator Support