By Dr. Jay Mehta
Jawahar L. “Jay” Mehta, M.D., Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine, and Physiology and Biophysics, and the Stebbins Chair in Cardiology at UAMS. Dr. Mehta serves or has served on the editorial board member of numerous journals including the American Journal of Cardiology; Circulation; Hypertension; Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Mehta has been funded numerous times by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of Health. In 2017, he was ranked among the top 27 Cardiologists in the nation.