Hiren Mehta MD

Dr Hiren Mehta is a Professor in the University of Florida Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, and serves as vice chief of Clinical Affairs at UF Health Shands Hospital and program director for the Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship Program. He is a practising interventional pulmonologist and part of the thoracic oncology group at UF Health. In 2003, he earned his medical degree from the Seth G.S. Medical College at the University of Bombay in India. His postdoctoral training includes a residency in internal medicine at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in Chicago, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary disease and critical care at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

He is board-certified in internal medicine, interventional pulmonary, and pulmonary medicine and critical care. His clinical interests are in lung cancer, including lung cancer screening, diagnosis, and staging. His research focuses on lung cancer screening and early diagnosis, as well as developing prediction models for lung cancer in small pulmonary nodules and on bronchoscopic intratumoral injection of chemotherapy for locoregional recurrence of lung cancer. His publications include original manuscripts on lung cancer diagnosis, staging and prediction models, local treatment with intratumoral cisplatin, and book chapters and review articles on lung cancer.