Dr Sumit Mehra

Clinical Practice

Dr. Sumit Mehra is a specialist respiratory and sleep medicine physician who has had many years of professional experience in respiratory and sleep disorders. His main focus is lung cancer and nodule diagnostics, pleural disorders, asthma, ILD, bronchiectasis, respiratory infections and pulmonary embolism. 

 

• Public Hospitals - Dr Mehra holds a public hospital role at Joondalup Health Campus and Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital in the Respiratory Department.
• Private Hospitals - Dr Mehra has been granted practicing privileges at Joondalup Private Hosptal and Hollywood Private Hospital and is also a lecturer at the Centre of Sleep Science at the University of Western Australia (UWA).

 

Western Respiratory and Sleep

Dr. Mehra is dedicated to providing comprehensive, empathetic, and individualised patient care. He is located at various metropolitan sites and extends telehealth services to patients in both metropolitan and regional areas. His services include bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), pleural drainage (including tunnelled catheter), comprehensive inpatient and home-based sleep assessments, initiation of positive airway pressure therapy and a complete array of pulmonary function tests. He is available at the following locations.

• Dr7 Medical Centre: 162 Wanneroo Rd, Yokine WA 6060
• Queensgate Specialist Centre: 2nd Floor, 2 Queensgate Dr, Canning Vale WA 6155

 

Background & Training

Formerly a consultant at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital, Dr. Mehra’s educational journey began at King George Medical University in India, followed by advanced respiratory specialization at St George Hospital, Sydney, and Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide. His postgraduate training encompasses a Fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the WASDRI, Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital, Perth; a Fellowship in Lung Cancers and Pleural Diseases at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide; Sleep Medicine at Western New York, USA; and in interventional Pulmonology, Asthma and Allergy at Bolnisnica Golnik, Europe.

  

Research

Dr. Mehra has contributed to over 45 scholarly articles. He actively participates as a reviewer and editorial board member for leading international journals including being chief editor for Journal of Pulmonology (PULSUS). He has been contributing to major trials as a principal investigator at the Centre of Sleep Science at the University of Western Australia (UWA).

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, India, 2003
• AMC Certificate, Australian Medical Council, Australia, 2013
• Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Adult Medicine Division, Australia, 2019

 

Contact Details

Western Respiratory Sleep (WRS) | Website: www.westernrespiratorysleep.com | Email: reception@westernrespiratorysleep.com | Phone: 08 6200 0877 | Fax:  08 6200 7467 | Healthlink ID: WSTNRESP

 

 

 

Asthma and Allergy | COPD | Interstitial lung disease | Lung cancer and nodule diagnostics | Pleural diseases | Bronchiectasis | Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Embolism | Occupational Lung diseases (Silicosis, Asbestosis) | Chronic Cough | Undifferentiated dyspnoea | Full range of sleep disorders including sleep apnoea, narcolepsy, parasomnia and restless leg syndrome.