Dr. Harshal Thaker is a senior Critical Care Specialist based at Ahmedabad. He has experience of 19 years in dealing with the serious patient who need ICU care. He is one of the handful senior critical care specialists of the state of Gujarat. He has his clinic at Ambawadi area of the city. He is associated with various multispeciality hospitals at Ahmedabad.

Dr. Thaker acquired postgraduate degree of MD in Internal Medicine in 1997 from Medical College, Surat. He then got training of intensive care at prestigious hospitals of Mumbai. Till 2006 he provided professional services as In charge of ICU and Medical department of Nirmal Hospital at Surat. He joined two years fellowship of Critical Care at Apollo hospital, Delhi in 2007 and obtained ‘Indian Fellowship of Critical Care Medicine’ in 2009. Dr Thaker further extended experience in managing severely sick heart patients having both medical and surgical heart problems at Escorts Heart Institute as consultant. Since 2010 he has been associated with various multispeciality hospitals of Ahmedabad.

He is trained at Germany for extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

Telemedicine

Since last five years he is providing ICU care through telemedicine and has contributed in saving more than one thousand lives at the hospitals in the distant locations.

Academic Activities

He is serving as a teacher in the Diploma of Critical Care Medicine, a super-speciality diploma in the field of ICU care. His students are serving successfully at various parts of the world.

He is a faculty of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), the training course that teaches techniques of reviving heart if it stops beating suddenly. He has rich experience of training more than one thousand doctors and paramedics.

He regularly conducts seminars for doctors and delivers his talks on the advancement in the areas of critical care

Contribution in the field of Critical Care

He is life member of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine and Ahmedabad Physicians Association

He served as committee member of ISCCM branch of Ahmedabad for six years.

He was actively involved in highly reputed Gujarat Critical Care Conferences as a scientific committee member and provided significant contribution in organizing scientific contents.

He has presented scientific research papers in various conferences.

His case of a rare fungal infection was published in an international journal