Dr. Pritha Nayyar

Dr.Pritha Nayyar is a very renowned and highly experienced Pulmonologist in Delhi. Considered as one of the best Chest Physician & Interventional Pulmonologist in Delhi., currently she is associated with “A-25 ground floor Naraina Vihar, Delhi , Delhi. “to give you the best Respiratory Inputs” for lung diseases,pleural diseases & interstitial lung Diseases & sleep disorders.

Dr Pritha Nayyar (MBBS, MD, DNB (Respiratory Medicine) Diploma Allergy & Asthma) presently working in Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital Delhi as Consultant in the Department of Respiratory, Critical care, Allergy & Sleep Medicine. With 8 years of working experience.” Her special areas of interest are Respiratory problems, sleep disorders, Intervention, critical care, Allergy & Immunotherapy. She has also published many research papers Nationally & internationally.

Work Experience:

• Consultant and DNB faculty, Department of Respiratory medicine, sleep and critical care, Head of unit 2, Max Smart Super Speciality hospital Delhi
• Visiting consultant, Northern Railway Central Hospital, Delhi

Education & Training:

• MD Respiratory Medicine, May 2013 – May 2016, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur
• Post-Graduation, DNB Respiratory Medicine December 2017
• Diploma Allergy and Asthma – CMC Vellore and university of Colorado, Jan 2019 – Dec 2020

Awards

• Corona warrior award by Haryana Medical council
• International trainee scholarship award in American Thoracic society 2017 in Washington DC.
• Award of distinction in Poster titled “Prevalence and pattern of metabolic syndrome in patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and its correlation with severity of COPD in American Thoracic society May 2017.
• Received M Chenna Reddy Award (gold medal & scholarship) in Rajapicon 2014 in oral presentation entitled “Case series of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) mimicking as pulmonary tuberculosis”.
• Second prize in Rajpulmocon – 2015, oral presentation on topic “To study the status of Body mass index (BMI) in patients of COPD and its correlation with the severity of COPD.”
• Received Scholarship for paper entitled “spectrum of Metabolic syndrome in COPD patients reporting to tertiary care teaching hospital” been selected for prof. S.N GAUR – Young Scientist Award in NAPCON’ 2014.
• Second Prize at Post Graduate Quiz competition in state region conducted by NAPCON – 2016.

Research Papers & Publications

• Presented poster and abstract published titled “Diffuse Alveolar haemorrhage (DAH): A rare complication of anticoagulant therapy with warfarin” in American thoracic society May 2017.
• Presented poster and published abstract titled “Prevalence and pattern of metabolic syndrome in patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and its correlation with severity of COPD in American Thoracic society May 2017.
• Thesis done on topic titled “To study the prevalence and pattern of metabolic syndrome in COPD patients and its correlation with the severity as per ABCD criteria of Revised GOLD Guidelines of COPD”.
• Published Paper entitled “Absent Unilateral Pulmonary Artery in an adult. A rare entity” in IOSR(International Organisation Of Scientific Research) Journal Of Dental and Medical Sciences, Vol.14, Issue 7, July 2015
• Published Paper titled “Radiologic profile of treated pulmonary tuberculosis patients and their correlation with modified medical research council scale and spirometry” in ERS Journal 1 Sept 15; volume 46, issue suppl 59
• Presented poster in ICAAICON’2013 titled case report – “ABPA simulating pulmonary tuberculosis”
• Presented poster in napcon’2015 titled “To study the status of Body Mass Index (BMI) & lipid profile in patients of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) & its outcome”.
• 2 papers published in breathe (European respiratory journal) for publications entitled – “Granulomatous reaction in a patient with lung cancer: should we treat it? – A diagnostic dilemma” and “An unusual complication after EBUS-TBNA” respectively