Dr Darshan Jhala
MB BS, MD (General Medicine), DM (Cardiology)
Consultant Cardiologist, Mumbai
Where he practises
- Consultant Cardiologist, Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai, since 1996
- Department of Cardiology, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, since 1989
- Consultant Cardiologist, Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai
Training
DM, Cardiology
1983
Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai
First rank among the candidates
MD, General Medicine
1981
Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai
MB BS
1977
Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai
Distinction in human anatomy; Dr Shirvalkar Gold Medal in Surgery
Dr Darshan Jhala trained at Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital in Mumbai, passing every examination at the first attempt, and took the DM in cardiology in 1983 with the first rank among the candidates in his year.
Both of his dissertations were about the electrical behaviour of the heart: the first on the rhythm abnormalities found in iron deficiency anaemia and what iron therapy does to them, the second on Holter monitoring and what a day of recorded beats can be made to tell you. He has been reading rhythms for a long time.
He has been attached to the department of cardiology at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre since 1989 and to Lilavati Hospital as consultant cardiologist since 1996, which is where the Mumbai clinic sees its patients. He is separately trained in cardiac electrophysiology: EP studies, radiofrequency ablation, and defibrillator implantation.
He was working on atrial fibrillation before most of the tools we now use for it existed. In 1985 he presented on intraoperative verapamil for atrial fibrillation with a fast ventricular rate at the Cardiological Society of India. He is still publishing forty years later, latterly alongside his son, Dr Malav Jhala, who took the electrophysiology route his father had trained in. They have co-authored papers together every few years since 2019.
Why he is the right person to have on an AF case
Most of what atrial fibrillation asks of a clinic is not the procedure. It is the anticoagulation decision, the rate that will not settle, the drug that has stopped agreeing with you, the monitor that needs reading. That is general cardiology done carefully, week after week, and Dr Darshan Jhala has done it in Mumbai for four decades.
His electrophysiology training matters here too. He knows what an ablation can and cannot fix, so the question of whether a rhythm needs a procedure or another look at the tablets reaches Professor Gupta already thought about.
Selected published and presented work
Management of sensing failure in demand inhibited pacemakers
Second Asian Pacific Symposium on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, Manila, 1982
Holter monitoring, its clinical applications
DM cardiology dissertation, 1983
Electrophysiologic abnormalities of the heart in iron deficiency anaemia
Acta Haematologica, 1984
Intraoperative verapamil in patients of atrial fibrillation with a fast ventricular rate
Joint Annual Conference, Cardiological Society of India, 1985
Dihydrallazine in sick sinus syndrome
Indian Heart Journal, 1987
Malignant cough syncope palliation on a shoestring budget
Indian Heart Journal Cardiovascular Case Reports, 2019
Predicting the future for amyloid light chain amyloidosis in patients with cardiac involvement
Cardiological Society of India Update, 2025
