Jawahar L. "jay" Mehta MD, PhD, FACC

Dr. Mehta is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine, and Physiology and Biophysics, and the Stebbins Chair in Cardiology at UAMS. Dr. Mehta serves or has served on the editorial board member of numerous journals including the American Journal of Cardiology; Circulation; Hypertension; Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Mehta has been funded numerous times by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of health. In 2017, he was ranked among the top 27 cardiologists in the nation.

Prof. Mehta serves or has served on the editorial boards of several major cardiology, physiology, and pharmacology journals, including Circulation, Hypertension, American Journal of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and the World Journal of Cardiology. He has published over 1200 papers, abstracts, and book chapters. He is a member of many prestigious academic societies, including the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of University Cardiologists. Grateful patients have established a Mehta Chair in Cardiovascular Research at UAMS in his honor. Recently, Jay and Paulette Mehta Lectureship in Internal Medicine was established in their honor.

He has received major national and international awards. Recent major awards include the Pericle d'Oro International Prize University, Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy; and the UAMS Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award in October 2015. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who Medicine and Healthcare, and Leading Physicians of the World. As a testament to his clinical skills, Prof. Mehta was named in November 2017 among the top 27 cardiologists in the United States by Forbes magazine. In December 2015, he was invited to the Nobel award ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden as a special guest. Prof. Mehta has lectured in over 30 countries.