Atlas of Coronary Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography

Jagat Narula, MD, PhD is a world-renowned physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine and imaging and leads the cardiac services at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt hospital campuses of the Mount Sinai Health System. He is involved in clinical and basic research in the fields of heart failure and atherosclerosis, with major emphasis on development of novel noninvasive imaging techniques. He has made contributions to the imaging of apoptotic cell death in heart muscle, and to the imaging of atherosclerotic plaques vulnerable to rupture.

Annapoorna Kini serves as a Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Director of Interventional Structural Heart Disease Program, and Director of Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she was named Zena and Michael A. Wiener Medicine Professor in 2016. She researches on the field of percutaneous coronary intervention and heart valve therapy. Kini co-established, with Dr Sharma, the Live Symposium of Complex Coronary and Vascular Cases in 1998 and has served as Director of the Annual Live Symposium of Complex Coronary & Vascular Cases at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. She has been among the first interventional cardiologists in the country to use the TAVI procedure in the treatment of inoperable patients with critical aortic stenosis.

Dr Yuliya Vengrenyuk is an instructor at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr Samin K. Sharma is an 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. Dr. Sharma is responsible for operational issues related to Cardiology at the main campus and in the Mount Sinai network. He also increases Mount Sinai's network of affiliated cardiologists in the tri-state area. As Dean for International Clinical Affiliations, Dr. Sharma serves as Mount Sinai’s clinical repr