Dr. Bhatla is a passionate and
enthusiastic specialist who takes pride in his practice and
patient care. Patients are often quoted saying that Dr. Puneet is
one of the nicest, good-natured and single-faceted medical
professional they have ever visited. He has earned a name and
already cemented a place as a professional doctor of own field.
- Mount Sinai Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
(Senior Fellow, Advanced Noninvasive Imaging-Cardiac MRI and
Echocardiography)
- Mount Sinai Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
(Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology)
- S.N. Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan (MBBS)
- Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York (MD)
Employment
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and
Radiology, NYU School of Medicine- NY
- Clinical Assistant, Department of Pediatrics, Ashok
Gupta Clinic, Jaipur, India
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
National
- Institute of Medical Sciences Medical School, Jaipur,
India
Teaching Experience
- Invited Speaker to NYU Head to Toe Imaging
Conference; Cardiac MR in Congenital Heart Disease: A
segmental approach
- Lecturer, Pediatric Cardiology Fellows, "Approach to
a patient with Tachyarrhythmia"
- New York Pediatric Echo society meeting Presented
echo images of a rare case of "Right Juxtaposition of
morphological left atrial appendage"
- Instructor at the "Congenital Heart Disease"
pathology teaching lab for the second year medical students
- Lecturer, Pediatric Cardiology Fellows and
Sonographers, "Quantification of Aortic regurgitation- ASE
guidelines"
- Lecturer, Pediatric Cardiology Fellows and Pediatric
Residents, "Transposition Physiology"
- Lecturer, Physician Assistants, "Postoperative
management in congenital heart disease"
- Lecturer, Pediatric Cardiology Fellows and
Sonographers, "Quantification of mitral Regurgitation-ASE
guidelines"
- Lecturer, Pediatric Cardiology Fellows, "Single
ventricle physiology"
- OSCE for PGY1, PGY2 and PGY 3 house staff, Department
of Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical center, NY
- Lecturer, Professorial rounds, Department of
Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical Center, NY "Approach to a
child with resistant tachycardia with emphasis on Persistent
Junctional reentry tachycardia".
- Lecturer, Grand Rounds "Clinical-Pathological
conference", Maimonides Medical Center, NY
- Lecturer, Noon Conference "AAP guidelines-Neonatal
jaundice", Maimonides Medical center, NY
Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics Certificate
- Educational Commission of Foreign Medical Graduates
Certificate
Memberships in Professional Societies
- Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance imaging
- Member, American Society of Echocardiography
- Member, American College of Cardiology
- Member, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Member, Medical Council of India
- Member, Delhi Medical Council
Honors and Awards
- Medical school honors in Anatomy, Biochemistry and
Pharmacology
- Gold Medal Award, SMS Medical College, India
- Two Star Award for excellence in care of Children,
Department of Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical center, NY
Papers
- Effect of phototherapy on calcium homeostasis and
study other side effects; Bhatla P, Acharya U, Bhatla T et
al. Current Medical trends; 06/2004, volume: 8/no.2:
1520-1526
- Lytrivi ID, Bhatla P, Ko HH, Yau J, Geiger MK, Walsh
R, et al. Normal values for left ventricular volume in
infants and young children by the echocardiographic
sub-xiphoid five-sixth area by length (bullet) method. J Am
Soc Echocardiogr 2011; 24: 214-8.
- J.C. Nielsen, I.D. Lytrivi, H.H. Ko, P. Bhatla, I.A.
Parness and S. Srivastava, The accuracy of echocardiographic
assessment of left ventricular size in children by the 5/6
area x length (bullet) method, Echocardiography
27 (2010), pp. 691-695
- Puneet Bhatla, J.C. Nielsen, Cardiovascular MR as an
alternate method for serial evaluation of proximal aorta;
Comparison with echocardiography. Echocardiography 2013 Jan
11. doi: 10.1111/echo.12105
- Bhatla P, Nielsen JC, Ko HH, Doucette J, Lytrivi ID,
Srivastava S. Normal values of Left atrial volume in
pediatric age group using a validated allometric model. Circ
Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Nov; 5(6):791-6. doi:
10.1161/CIRCIMAGING. 112.974428 Epub 2012 Oct 16
- Shubhika Srivastava, Puneet Bhatla Pulmonic Valvar
Disease; Reich: Perioperative Transesophageal
Echocardiography, A Companion to Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia
textbook
Abstracts
- Comparison of Aortic root measurements by 3D SSFP CMR
to 2D echocardiography- Bhatla P, Nielsen J. -Abstract
presented at Society of Cardiac MR Conference- France and 15th
Annual update on Congenital Heart Disease, Phoenix AZ-
Cardiology 2011 conference. Abstract published in World
Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and
Journal of Cardiovascular MR
- Normative data on LA volumes by 2D echocardiography
using the correct Allometric indexing method- Bhatla P, Ko H,
Nielsen J, Srivastava S- Podium presentation in the Young
Investigator award category, National meeting of American
Academy of Pediatrics (Cardiology and cardiac surgery
chapter) October 2011
- Poster Presentation, Pediatric Research Day 2011,
Mount Sinai Medical center, "Agreement between 2D-
echocardiography and 3D SSFP for aortic root dimensions"
- Poster Presentation, Pediatric Research Day 2010,
Mount Sinai Medical center, "Normal Values for Left
Ventricular volume in Infants and Young Children by the
Subxiphoid Five-Sixth Area by Length (Bullet) Method"
- Poster Presentation, Pediatrics Research Day 2009,
Mount Sinai Medical Center, "The Accuracy of
Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Size in
Children by the 5/6 Area x Length (Bullet) Method"
- Poster Presentation, Pediatrics Research Day 2007,
Maimonides Medical Center, "Effect of Phototherapy on Calcium
Homeostasis"