Dr. Pihu Vashisht is a medical and public-health professional with experience spanning clinical care, cardiac care, epidemiology, noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention, health promotion, and health research. She has worked as a Medical Officer at Ivy Hospital, Chandigarh, supporting intensive-care and emergency services, and as a Physician Assistant in Cardiac Care at NIMS, Jaipur, where she contributed to the management of patients undergoing PTCA and CABG and supported cardiovascular emergency care.

Her academic interests extend beyond clinical practice into evidence-based public health, chronic-disease management, tobacco control, mental health, and the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Clinical & Public Health Expertise

Dr. Vashisht has practical expertise in ICU and emergency support, cardiac-care services, patient monitoring, differential diagnosis, chronic-disease management, discharge planning, patient counselling, and interdisciplinary clinical coordination. Her public-health competencies include epidemiology, biostatistics, NCD prevention, tobacco-control education, health promotion, and awareness of climate- and disaster-related health challenges.

Research & Academic Contributions

Her research training demonstrates strong capability in systematic-review methodology, including PICO formulation, literature searching, study screening, data extraction, critical appraisal, risk-of-bias assessment, PRISMA documentation, narrative synthesis, and scientific reporting.

As part of her global internship with the Council for Sustainable Health Research, she contributed to a systematic review titled “Effectiveness of Behavioural Smoking Cessation Interventions Among Young Adults in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” The work has been published/co-authored in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, an Oxford University Press journal, with Manuscript ID NTR-2026-446.

Her MPH dissertation at Panjab University focuses on the comparative assessment of antihypertensive medication compliance in rural and urban populations, examining treatment adherence, behavioural factors, and relevance to NCD programmes. She has also presented research on AI-enabled early detection and personalized mental-health care and on cervical-cancer and HPV-vaccine awareness among women.

Scientific Presentations & Recognition

Dr. Vashisht has actively participated in national and international scientific conferences. Her presentation on “Tackling Cardiovascular Diseases: A Public Health Perspective” received the First Prize for Poster Presentation at the 11th Foundation Day International CME on Noncommunicable Diseases organized by PGIMER Chandigarh and the World NCD Federation in March 2026.

She has also delivered an oral scientific presentation on AI-enabled mental-health detection and personalized care at EFICON 2025, AIIMS New Delhi, and presented research at conferences organized by Panjab University and other academic institutions.

Professional Development

Dr. Vashisht has strengthened her expertise through specialized training in tobacco cessation, network meta-analysis, biostatistics and research methodology, chronic kidney disease care, nutrition and lifestyle interventions, disaster-risk reduction, e-cigarette health impacts, climate-change adaptation, and AI readiness for health. These certifications demonstrate her commitment to continuous professional development and interdisciplinary healthcare research.

Key Strengths

• Clinical and emergency-care experience
• Cardiac-care and chronic-disease management
• Public-health and NCD research
• Tobacco-control and health-promotion initiatives
• Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis
• Biostatistics and research methodology
• Artificial intelligence applications in healthcare
• Scientific presentations and academic communication
• Interdisciplinary teamwork and patient counselling

Eligibility for Innovative Researcher of the Year

Dr. Pihu Vashisht is eligible for the Innovative Researcher of the Year Award in Scientific Laurels based on her emerging interdisciplinary research profile, combining clinical medicine, public health, NCD prevention, tobacco-control research, and innovative applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Her systematic-review publication, MPH research on antihypertensive medication adherence, scientific presentations on AI and mental health, and award-winning work on cardiovascular disease prevention demonstrate her ability to address contemporary healthcare challenges through evidence-based and innovative approaches.

Her combination of clinical experience, public-health training, research methodology expertise, AI-oriented healthcare research, scientific publications, conference presentations, and recognized research achievements provides a strong basis for consideration for the Innovative Researcher of the Year category.