About Hitesh Batra

Dr. Hitesh Batra is the Director of the Interventional Pulmonology and Pleural Disease Program and the Fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology at UAB.

He completed an advanced fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Collat School of Business at UAB. He completed his initial medical training and internship in India, and then went on to complete an internship and residency at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, where he was chief resident at the VA medical center.

He joined UAB's Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine as a full-time faculty member in 2015 and is an active member of the Clinicians Advisory Committee of the American Thoracic Society. Dr. Batra can be found at the Pulmonary Clinic at The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital, located at 2000 6th Avenue South, Floor 4, in Birmingham, Alabama and can be reached by phone at 205-996-5864.