Sanjay Mohindra

 

Sanjay Mohindra - Professional Summary:   A skilled medical professional firmly dedicated to ensuring patient comfort in every respect, Dr. Sanjay Mohindra currently serves as Section Director of Interventional Radiology at Lafayette Radiology in Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Mohindra stepped into that role in 2005, and he derives a great deal of personal satisfaction from his work, employing his extensive clinical knowledge to perform a broad range of minimally invasive procedures. Widely recognized as a compassionate and dedicated physician by his patients and colleagues alike, Dr. Sanjay Mohindra excels in treating ailments of the arterial, venous, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal systems of the body. Additionally, Dr. Mohindra regularly assists individuals suffering from diseases of the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, and urinary tract, always taking the time to educate his patients fully about their illnesses and associated methods of therapeutic intervention. As an interventional radiologist, Dr. Sanjay Mohindra often performs operations without the use of general anesthesia, necessitating a very steady hand and intense focus. Boasting an impressive record of surgical success, Dr. Mohindra strives to avoid even the most minor complications, a goal he accomplishes on a consistent basis. Viewing himself as a primary advocate for his patients’ well-being, Dr. Sanjay Mohindra gladly accepts complex referral cases from his fellow doctors, utilizing his friendly bedside manner to put even the most anxious patients at ease. Dr. Sanjay Mohindra has particular interest in the management of peripheral arterial disease, kyphoplasty (the treatment of bone fractures caused by osteoporosis), transarterial embolization, and catheter-directed thrombolysis, and he regularly garners accolades for his willingness to undertake responsibility for critically ill, physically unstable, and pediatric patients. Dr. Sanjay Mohindra also compassionately cares for people with extremely low pain thresholds, employing a gentle touch to the utmost capacity in all of his clinical activities. Dr. Sanjay Mohindra received his Doctor of Medicine from the Drexel University College of Medicine, formerly known as the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hahnemann University School of Medicine. A member of The American Board of Radiology, Dr. Sanjay Mohindra is licensed to practice medicine in the states of Indiana and California.

 

 

Sanjay Mohindra - Professional Experience:    Lafayette Radiology
Director Interventional Radiology

Lafayette, IN US
07/1/2005
Perform minimally invasive procedures using imaging technology (x-ray cameras, ultrasound, and cat scan) and specialized tools (catheters, balloons, stents, filters, embolization particles/coils and micro devices) on inpatients and outpatients. These procedures include angioplasty, stent placement, diagnostic procedures, thrombolysis, embolization, kyphoplasty, percutaneous drainage, dialysis access maintanence work, pain management, device placement, biopsies, percutaneous feeding tube, central venous access, trauma, and interventional oncologic procedures. These procedures were typically performed in the arterial, venous, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, hepatobiliary, and pulmonary systems of the body as well as the axial skeleton, subcutaneous tissues, joint, pleural, and peritoneal spaces. These procedures overlap considerably with the fields of vascular surgery, nephrology, pulmonology/ critical care, gastrointestinal medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, oncology, and general surgery.
- Serve as a consultant to physicians from other specialties to answer clinical questions as well as to accomplish solutions to emergent and chronic patient issues. - Recruit other physicians and support staff to grow our department. - Assist with marketing of our highly specialized services to increase awareness of what Interventional Radiology could make available to patients (and physicians) within our community. - Educate medical students, nursing students, and radiology tech students who rotated through our department. - Formulate Interventional Radiology department policies, protocols, and supply lists. - Round on patients and see them in clinic type setting. - Educate patients on their diseases, the procedural options available to them and post procedural management issues. - Attend various hospital and radiology practice meetings.
- Invented several new Interventional Radiology tools and devices. - Stabilized and grew previously unstable, ineffective Interventional Radiology section in Lafayette, Indiana. - Brought a broad and current skill set to our Radiology department featuring the latest Interventional Radiology procedures. - Attend the Society of Interventional Radiology conference annually. - Oversaw a dramatic increase in the volume of procedures and complexity of cases in our department. - Routinely voted onto hospital "most popular physician lists"
I would like my biographies to play up on my considerable intangibles which include a warm and caring bedside manner, high technical success rate with low incidence of significant complications, gentle touch (very important since over 99% of procedures are performed without general anesthesia), and palpable emotional investment in patient outcome. I pride myself on a very high technical success rate with an extremely low incidence of complications. My areas of interest include management of peripheral arterial disease, trans arterial embolization and catheter directed thrombolysis procedures, and kyphoplasty. I excel at doing procedures on critically ill/ unstable patients as well as pediatric patients, difficult patients, and patients with low pain thresholds. I am popular with referring clinicians, ancillary hospital staff and am frequently requested by name. I am known for my strong patient advocacy as well as for being approachable, genuinly helpful, and exceptionally effective. I take a tremendous amount of pride in the quality, passion, and thouroughness of my work.

 

 

Sanjay Mohindra - Education:  

Drexel (formerly known as Medical College of Pennsylvania-Hahnemann University)
Medicine
MD
Philadelphia, PA US
08/1/1994 — 06/1/1999

was part of combined Baccalaureate-M.D. program with Lehigh University and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. During this time I developed a passion for Interventional Radiology.

 

 

Sanjay Mohindra - Interests:   

Epicurean Adventures/ Gourmet Cooking, Travel, Film, Reading, Composing music/ Piano, Tennis, Inventing Interventional Radiology Tools/ Devices

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