Rohit Arora
Professor of Medicine, Chicago Medical School, USA
Biography
Dr. Rohit Arora is currently Professor of Medicine and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois where he is also Chairman of Cardiology and Vice- Chairman of Medicine, Department of Medicine. He is also Chairman of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology at the Principal Teaching Hospital at the James Lovell FHCC, North Chicago IL. Previously, he was Chief of Cardiology at UMDNJ and Director of Interventional Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratory, New Jersey, and Director of Critical Cardiology, and Director of Cardiac Care Units at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Arora’s residency training was at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, with a fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York, Nuclear cardiology fellowship also at Mount Sinai, Interventional fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. He does lectureship in thrombosis and vascular disease at Montefiore Medical Centre/Albert Einstein School of Medicine, NY. Dr Arora’s research interests include thrombosis, refractory angina, EECP, lipids, vascular biology of the endothelium, interventional, and preventive cardiology. He has authored or co-authored more than five hundred papers and abstracts, and is the recipient of numerous awards & honors. Dr Arora is on the editorial board of numerous medical journals, and was the editor of Heart International. He has co-authored a textbook on Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction, available on Amazon, by Springer. He is nominated to the FDA device panel for devise and radiological devices. He has performed pioneering studies in refractory angina and Enhanced External Counter-pulsation.
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Abstract : Effect of smoking on coronary microvasculature in hospitalized chest pain patients