Rate My Professor Vijeth Bhat

Distinguished Emeritus Professor Vijeth Bhat serves as Conjoint Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is an Intensivist at John Hunter Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales. His professional qualifications include an MD in Anaesthesiology and DNB in Intensive Care Medicine obtained in India, Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) awarded in 2019, and Diploma in Diagnostic Ultrasound (DDU) in Intensive Care completed from 2018 to 2020. These credentials highlight his specialized expertise in intensive care medicine and advanced ultrasound applications.

Professor Bhat is recognized as a passionate critical care echocardiography educator. He supervises candidates for the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DDU) and the European Diploma in Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (EDEC). As faculty, he delivers basic and advanced critical care echocardiography courses nationally in Australia and internationally. He is a contact person for the Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in Intensive Care course by the College of Intensive Care Medicine and the Rapid Cardiac Echocardiography course under the Certificate of Competence in Point of Care Ultrasound (CCPU) at John Hunter Hospital. His scholarly output includes key publications such as "Management of straddling thrombus through patent foramen ovale: a case report" (BMJ Case Reports, 2021), "A Delphi Process Consensus Statement by the Learning Ultrasound in the Shock State (LUST) Group: Defining and Quantifying 'Quality' in the Image Acquisition Component of Lung Ultrasound" (Chest, 2021, as part of SPARTAN Collaborative), a response letter (Chest, 2022), "Subcostal TAPSE: a retrospective analysis of a novel right ventricle function parameter" (Critical Ultrasound Journal, 2019), and "Thrombus in transit through a patent foramen ovale" (Heart, 2012). Through his clinical practice, educational leadership, and research contributions, Professor Bhat has significantly impacted the field of critical care ultrasound.