Samin K. Sharma
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Dr. Samin K. Sharma is a U.S.
interventional cardiologist
holding the American record for the highest number of complex coronary interventions performed annually, along with the highest angioplasty
success rate in New York State.
His other procedural specialties include the catheter-based treatment of mitral
and aortic stenosis
(balloon valvuloplasty
).
Dr. Sharma serves on the Cardiac Advisory Board of the New York State since 2004 for coronary interventions that advises the health department and the Governor on issues of health policies and supervision, safety and appropriateness of the heart care by various hospitals in New York. Dr. Sharma received the Governor’s Award of Excellence (2006), for his outstanding contribution to Medicine.
Dr. Sharma also has passion for teaching and fellows enjoy learning from his expertise, so much they awarded him the Simon Dack best teacher in cardiology division in 2000. Dr. Sharma travels to India 4-6 times a year to teach the art of angioplasty to Indian cardiologists. He is the vice-president of the Rajasthan development foundation and donated medical equipment worth one lack Rs/month for six years (2001-2007) to the Chief Minister relief fund to help Rajasthan’s people in need. In addition to various academic awards, Dr. Sharma also received numerous awards from non-academic societies such as the “Rajasthan Gaurav,” given by the Sanskriti organization of Rajasthan and the Rajive Gandhi Memorial Award.
Under the directorship of Dr. Sharma, The Live Symposium of Complex Coronary & Vascular Cases (www.cccsympsoium.org) started in 1998 and has had overwhelming success every year (attended by >500 delegates). Major emphasis of the live course has been the technical aspects of safely performing complex coronary interventions. In July 2009, Dr. Sharma launched a monthly live web series, (www.ccclivecases.org), a revolutionary teaching tool in interventional cardiology globally. Dr. Sharma started this interactive experience for the viewer by providing streamed real-time procedures with a concurrent on-line discussion in which questions submitted via email are answered live. This program focuses on helping the audience understand the complexity of interventional technique (in management of complex coronary artery disease). Dr. Sharma partnered with Medscape/TheHeart.org in September 2010, to enhance this live webcast globally and widen his audience and is now attended by >5000 registrants per webcast from 100 countries globally.
Being regularly featured on international, national and local TV stations, newspapers and magazines, Dr. Sharma has been the focus of news stories for outlets like; The Today Show, TV Asia, ITV, CBS, NBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Businessweek, Business Pulse, India Abroad, India Today, Barron’s, Forbes, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Crain’s New York Business, Newsday, New York Post, New York Sun, Earthtimes, India Today.
Dr. Sharma has been the recipient of numerous awards for excellence to the medical society and the community, to name a few recent ones: 2011 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 2011 American Heart Association Achievement in Cardiovascular Science & Medicine Award, 2011 American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) Outstanding Physician of the Year, 2010 Association of Indians in America (AIA) for excellence in Medicine, 2010 Honored by AAPI forum of Tri-state area for academic excellence, 2003-2007 Best Doctors, 2008-2011 Super Doctors, 2007 Jacobi Medallion Award at Mount Sinai Hospital, 2007 Physician of the Year at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dr. Sharma received his medical degree from S.M.S. Medical College in 1978, Japiur, India, where he was ranked the number one student in his medical school having received eight gold medals and five honors. In 1983, he came to New York to undergo residency in Internal Medicine at the NY Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital (1983-1986), fellowship in Cardiology at Elmhurst Hospital (1986-1988), and interventional training at Mount Sinai Hospital (1988-1990). He was then appointed as an attending at Mount Sinai Hospital in 1990 where he is currently the Director of Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (since 1996), and Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Institute (2004), and is the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Professor of Medicine, Cardiology (2002). He has authored over 130 articles, 300 abstracts, 12 book chapters and two books to his credit.
in 1972 and his medical degree from SMS Medical College
in 1978; both schools are in Jaipur
, India
. He is a graduate of Rajgarh Higher Secondary School in Alwar in Rajasthan
state.
Sharma completed three fellowships at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and his residency (in internal medicine
) at New York Downtown Hospital
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
interventional cardiologist
Interventional cardiology
Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplasty by interventional radiologist, Dr. Charles...
holding the American record for the highest number of complex coronary interventions performed annually, along with the highest angioplasty
Angioplasty
Angioplasty is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel, the latter typically being a result of atherosclerosis. An empty and collapsed balloon on a guide wire, known as a balloon catheter, is passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size...
success rate in New York State.
His other procedural specialties include the catheter-based treatment of mitral
Mitral valve
The mitral valve is a dual-flap valve in the heart that lies between the left atrium and the left ventricle...
and aortic stenosis
Aortic valve stenosis
Aortic valve stenosis is a disease of the heart valves in which the opening of the aortic valve is narrowed. The aortic valve is the valve between the left ventricle of the heart and the aorta, which is the largest artery in the body and carries the entire output of blood.-Pathophysiology:The...
(balloon valvuloplasty
Aortic valvuloplasty
Aortic valvuloplasty is the repair of a stenotic aortic valve using a balloon catheter inside the valve. The balloon is placed into the aortic valve that has become stiff from calcium buildup...
).
Biography
Dr. Samin K. Sharma performs over 1500 complex coronary interventions annually (the highest in the country) while achieving an extremely low complication rate. According to New York State Department of Health reports (1994-2002, 2006-2008), he has the highest angioplasty successrate (lowest mortality <0.2%) for an interventional cardiologist in NY state since 1994,receiving prestigious **Star designation (statistically significantly lower then expected mortality). Under Dr. Sharma’s leadership, Mount Sinai Hospital has become one of the best and busiest centers in New York, providing excellent care for all types of simple and complex high-risk heart patients. In addition to coronary interventions, Dr. Sharma specializes in the non-surgical treatment of mitral and aortic stenosis and percutaneous aortic valve replacement (TAVR).Dr. Sharma serves on the Cardiac Advisory Board of the New York State since 2004 for coronary interventions that advises the health department and the Governor on issues of health policies and supervision, safety and appropriateness of the heart care by various hospitals in New York. Dr. Sharma received the Governor’s Award of Excellence (2006), for his outstanding contribution to Medicine.
Dr. Sharma also has passion for teaching and fellows enjoy learning from his expertise, so much they awarded him the Simon Dack best teacher in cardiology division in 2000. Dr. Sharma travels to India 4-6 times a year to teach the art of angioplasty to Indian cardiologists. He is the vice-president of the Rajasthan development foundation and donated medical equipment worth one lack Rs/month for six years (2001-2007) to the Chief Minister relief fund to help Rajasthan’s people in need. In addition to various academic awards, Dr. Sharma also received numerous awards from non-academic societies such as the “Rajasthan Gaurav,” given by the Sanskriti organization of Rajasthan and the Rajive Gandhi Memorial Award.
Under the directorship of Dr. Sharma, The Live Symposium of Complex Coronary & Vascular Cases (www.cccsympsoium.org) started in 1998 and has had overwhelming success every year (attended by >500 delegates). Major emphasis of the live course has been the technical aspects of safely performing complex coronary interventions. In July 2009, Dr. Sharma launched a monthly live web series, (www.ccclivecases.org), a revolutionary teaching tool in interventional cardiology globally. Dr. Sharma started this interactive experience for the viewer by providing streamed real-time procedures with a concurrent on-line discussion in which questions submitted via email are answered live. This program focuses on helping the audience understand the complexity of interventional technique (in management of complex coronary artery disease). Dr. Sharma partnered with Medscape/TheHeart.org in September 2010, to enhance this live webcast globally and widen his audience and is now attended by >5000 registrants per webcast from 100 countries globally.
Being regularly featured on international, national and local TV stations, newspapers and magazines, Dr. Sharma has been the focus of news stories for outlets like; The Today Show, TV Asia, ITV, CBS, NBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Businessweek, Business Pulse, India Abroad, India Today, Barron’s, Forbes, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Crain’s New York Business, Newsday, New York Post, New York Sun, Earthtimes, India Today.
Dr. Sharma has been the recipient of numerous awards for excellence to the medical society and the community, to name a few recent ones: 2011 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 2011 American Heart Association Achievement in Cardiovascular Science & Medicine Award, 2011 American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) Outstanding Physician of the Year, 2010 Association of Indians in America (AIA) for excellence in Medicine, 2010 Honored by AAPI forum of Tri-state area for academic excellence, 2003-2007 Best Doctors, 2008-2011 Super Doctors, 2007 Jacobi Medallion Award at Mount Sinai Hospital, 2007 Physician of the Year at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dr. Sharma received his medical degree from S.M.S. Medical College in 1978, Japiur, India, where he was ranked the number one student in his medical school having received eight gold medals and five honors. In 1983, he came to New York to undergo residency in Internal Medicine at the NY Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital (1983-1986), fellowship in Cardiology at Elmhurst Hospital (1986-1988), and interventional training at Mount Sinai Hospital (1988-1990). He was then appointed as an attending at Mount Sinai Hospital in 1990 where he is currently the Director of Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (since 1996), and Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Institute (2004), and is the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Professor of Medicine, Cardiology (2002). He has authored over 130 articles, 300 abstracts, 12 book chapters and two books to his credit.
Education
Sharma received his undergraduate degree from Maharaja CollegeMaharaja College
- History & Evolution :It was established in 1844 and is one of six constituent colleges of University of Rajasthan .It is one of the oldest colleges of North India and was designed by British architects.-Notable alumni:* Dr. Samin K...
in 1972 and his medical degree from SMS Medical College
SMS Medical College,Jaipur
Sawai ManSingh Medical College is a medical college in Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India. It was established in 1947....
in 1978; both schools are in Jaipur
Jaipur
Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. He is a graduate of Rajgarh Higher Secondary School in Alwar in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
state.
Sharma completed three fellowships at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and his residency (in internal medicine
Internal medicine
Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...
) at New York Downtown Hospital
New York Downtown Hospital
New York Downtown Hospital is a not-for-profit, acute care, teaching hospital in New York City and is the only hospital in Lower Manhattan...
.
Awards and recognition
- 2007 Mount Sinai "Physician of the Year"
- 2007 Jacobi Medallion
- 2006 Governor's Award of Excellence
- 2002 New York Department of Health "Best Angioplasty Doctor"
- 2000 Simon Dack Award "Best Teacher" Award
- 1996 - 2000 Center of Excellence Award for Rotational Coronary AtherectomyEndarterectomyEndarterectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the atheromatous plaque material, or blockage, in the lining of an artery constricted by the buildup of soft/hardening deposits. It is carried out by separating the plaque from the arterial wall....
- 1995 - 2003 Lowest complication rate of angioplasty (DOH New York State statistics)
- Rajiv GandhiRajiv GandhiRajiv Ratna Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India . He took office after his mother's assassination on 31 October 1984; he himself was assassinated on 21 May 1991. He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office at the age of 40.Rajiv Gandhi was the elder son of Indira...
Memorial Award - U.S. News & World ReportU.S. News & World ReportU.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
– "Best Doctors" list
Publications
Partial list:- Kini ASAnnapoorna KiniAnnapoorna Kini, M.D., is an American cardiologist and an Associate Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City....
, Kim MC, Moreno PR, Krishnan P, Ivan OC, Sharma SK. Comparison of coronary flow reserve and fractional flow reserve in patients with versus without diabetes mellitus and having elective percutaneous coronary intervention and abciximab therapy (from the PREDICT Trial). The American Journal of Cardiology, 2008 PMID 18328843 - Kunamneni PB, Rajdev S, Krishnan P, Moreno PR, Kim MC, Sharma SK, Kini AS. Outcome of intracoronary stenting after failed maximal medical therapy in patients with symptomatic myocardial bridge.Official journal for the Society for Cardiology, 2008 PMID 18327835
- Stevens GR, Kini AS, Sharma SK. Intervention of stenosed right coronary artery and anomalous left main coronary artery: single main coronary trunk. Journal of invasive cardiology, 2008 PMID 18316835
- Rajdev S, Krishnan P, Irani A, Kim MC, Moreno PR, Sharma SK, Kini AS. Clinical application of prophylactic percutaneous left ventricular assist device (TandemHeart) in high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention using an arterial preclosure technique: single-center experience. Journal of invasive cardiology, 2008 PMID 18252970
- Sinha AK, Kini AS, Sharma SK. Percutaneous valve replacement: a paradigm shift. Current opinion in cardiology, 2007 PMID 17762550
- Anand SX, Kim MC, Kamran M, Sharma SK, Kini AS, Fareed J, Hoppensteadt DA, Carbon F, Cavusoglu E, Varon D, Viles-Gonzalez JF, Badimon JJ, Marmur JD. Comparison of platelet function and morphology in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention receiving bivalirudin versus unfractionated heparin versus clopidogrel pretreatment and bivalirudin. The American Journal of Cardiology, 2007 PMID 17659921
- Sharma SK, Tamburrino F, Mares AM, Kini AS. Improved outcome with AngioJet thrombectomy during primary stenting in acute myocardial infarction patients with high-grade thrombus. Journal of invasive cardiology, 2006 PMID 16883025
- Chen V, Sharma S. Coronary interventional devices: Balloon, atherectomy, thrombectomy and distal protection devices. Cardiol Clin, 2006 PMID 16781938
- Wu C, Hannan E, Walford G, Ambrose J, Jones R, King S, Clark T, Katz S, Sharma S, Holmes D. A risk score to predict in-hospital mortality for percutaneous coronary interventions. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2006 PMID 16458151
- Hannan E, Racz M, Holmes D, King S, Jones R, Ambrose J, Sharma S, Katz S, Clark L, Walford G. Impact of completeness of percutaneous coronary intervention revascularization on long-term outcomes in the stent era.Circulation, 2006 PMID 16702469
- Sharma SK, Kini AS. Coronary bifurcation lesions. Cardiology clinics, 2006 PMID 16781940
- Kini AS, Moreno PR, Steinheimer AM, Prattipati M, Suleman J, Kim MC, Sharma SK. Effectiveness of the stent pull-back technique for nonaorto ostial coronary narrowings. The American Journal of Cardiology, 2005 PMID 16214450
- Agarwal A, Kini AS, Attanti S, Lee PC, Ashtiani R, Steinheimer AM, Moreno PR, Sharma SK. Results of repeat balloon valvuloplasty for treatment of aortic stenosis in patients aged 59 to 104 years. The American Journal of Cardiology, 2005 PMID 15619392
- Sharma SK. Simultaneous kissing drug-eluting stent technique for percutaneous treatment of bifurcation lesions in large. Cathet Cardiovasc Interv, 2005 PMID 15810018
- Sharma SK, Choudhury A, Lee J, Kim MC, Fisher E, Steinheimer AM, Kini AS. Simultaneous kissing stents (SKS) technique for treating bifurcation lesions in medium-to-large size coronary arteries. The American Journal of Cardiology, 2004 PMID 15464676
- Lee PC, Kini AS, Ahsan C, Fisher E, Sharma SK. Anemia is an independent predictor of mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2004 PMID 15358017
- Cavusoglu E, Kini AS, Marmur JD, Sharma SK. Current status of rotational atherectomy. Official journal for the Society for Cardiology, 2004 PMID 15274159
- Kini AS, Lee P, Marmur JD, Agarwal A, Duffy ME, Kim MC, Sharma SK. Correlation of postpercutaneous coronary intervention creatine kinase-MB and troponin I elevation in predicting mid-term mortality. The American Journal of Cardiology, 2004
- Kini AS, Lee PC, Mitre CA, Kim MC, Kamran M, Duffy ME, Marmur JD, Sharma SK. Prediction of outcome after percutaneous coronary intervention for the acute coronary syndrome. The American journal of medicine, 2003 PMID 14693323
- Kini AS, Lee P, Mitre CA, Duffy ME, Sharma SK. Postprocedure chest pain after coronary stenting: implications on clinical restenosis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2003 PMID 12570941
- Paramesh AS, Grosskreutz C, Florman SSSander S. FlormanSander S. Florman, M.D., is an American transplant surgeon and Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City...
, Gondolesi GE, Sharma S, Kaufman SS, Fishbein TM. Thrombotic microangiopathy associated with combined sirolimus and tacrolimus immunosuppression after intestinal transplantation. Transplantation. 2004 Jan 15;77(1):129-31. PMID 14724447 - Kini AS, Richard M, Suleman J, Perez N, Lee P, Fisher EA, Kamran M, Marmur JD, Sharma SK. Effectiveness of tirofiban, eptifibatide, and abciximab in minimizing myocardial necrosis during percutaneous coronary intervention (TEAM pilot study). The American Journal of Cardiology, 2002 PMID 12208416
- Kim M, Sharma S, Kini A. Therapeutic options in patients with refractory angina. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2002
- Kini AS, Mitre CA, Kim M, Kamran M, Reich D, Sharma SK. A protocol for prevention of radiographic contrast nephropathy during percutaneous coronary intervention: effect of selective dopamine receptor agonist fenoldopam. Official journal for the Society for Cardiology, 2002 PMID 11835641
- Kini AS, Reich DDavid L. ReichDavid L. Reich is an American academic anesthesiologist and currently the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City....
, Mitre CA, Sharma SK. A risk stratification scheme for selection of a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor during percutaneous coronary intervention based on clinical and angiographic criteria. The American Journal of Cardiology, 2001