Annapoorna Kini

Annapoorna Kini, M.D., is an American cardiologist and a Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

Dr. Kini performs over 1,000 coronary interventions annually (the highest number performed by a female interventionalist in the United States and the second highest overall volume in the US) with an extremely low complication rate of less than 0.3 percent. From 2011-2013, Dr. Kini achieved the highest rating of two stars for performing angioplasty with percutaneous intervention with one of the lowest documented rate of complications in New York State Department of Health's PCI Report for that time period. In 2011, an official annual report from The Department of Health recognized Dr. Kini as the safest operator among 350 other physicians in the State of New York Her low complication rate earned her a 2-star rating in the 2012, NY State Annual Department of Health Report; which is the state's highest distinction for safety and clinical outcomes. As Director of the Cardiac Cathertization Laboratory at the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Dr. Kini is responsible for the day-to-day smooth functioning of their high volume catheterization laboratory, which performs more than 15,000 total procedures including 5200 interventions annually. Her safety record and patient outcomes along with her supervision of her Mount Sinai colleagues and staff also garnered Mount Sinai Medical Center's Cardiac Catheterization the prestigious 2-star rating,as well. This distinction from the New York State Department of Health, which came in 2015 marked the 17th consecutive year the Mount Sinai Heart Cardiac Catheterization Laboratoryor its physicians were awarded this prestigious two-star rating for its coronary interventions overall and in non-emergency cases.

Biography

Dr. 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. Dr. Kini is an international leader in the field of percutaneous coronary intervention and heart valve therapy. In 2016, Dr. Kini's contributions to science and medicine led the Mount Sinai Hospital's leadership bestowed upon her the prestigious Zena and Michael A. Wiener Medicine Professorship.

In collaboration with Dr. Sharma, she started the Live Symposium of Complex Coronary and Vascualr Cases in 1998 and has been receiving an astounding success every year. Her achievements are not only limited to serving as the Director of the Annual Live Symposium of Complex Coronary & Vascular Cases at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, one of the most attended and respected meetings in the field of interventional cardiology in the country, but as also being the Director of monthly web conferences on Live Complex Coronary Intervention Cases hosted by the prestigious www.cardiosource.org with a worldwide audience of several thousand physicians across 131 countries garnering over 7000 page views.

She has an extensive experience with the techniques of mitral and aortic balloon valvuloplasty, and has been among the first interventional cardiologists in the country to use transcutaneous aortic valve implantation procedure in the treatment of unoperable patients with critical aortic stenosis.

Dr. Kini is widely published on various topics of Interventional Cardiology and has authored numerous book chapters in the field of Acute Coronary Syndromes and cornoray interventions. She serves as the site Principal Investigator for numerous multi-center trials including sponsored trials by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She also maintains a large interventional database of more than 50,000 heart patients, which helps in analysis and publications of short and long-termoutcomes of all types of coronary interventions.

She is co-author (with Dr. Samin K. Sharma) of Coronary artherectomy: Contemporary concepts in cardiology and (with Dr. Valentin Fuster) of Definitions of acute coronary syndromes in Hurst's The Heart.[1]

Education

Kini graduated from India's Vivekananda College in 1984. She received her MBBS from Kasturba Medical College in 1991 receiving 3 honors and gold medals, completing residencies at the University of Wales College of Medicine (in 1996). After receiving training in England, she became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London. She completed three fellowships at Mount Sinai Medical Center – in 1997, 2001, and 2002, respectively.[2]

Personal life

Annapoorna Kini currently resides in New York and is married with two children. One is a senior at Columbia University, and will become a master investment banker/bhangra dancer. Dr. Kini has a passion for yoga/meditation and running, one she shares with colleagues, staff, and patients at Mount Sinai hosting yoga events and an annual fun run, in which she engages health care professionals in their personal well-being.

Awards and recognition

Grants and trials

Books, Chapters and Invited contributions

Publications

Partial list:

References

  1. ↑ Nash, Ira S.; Fuster, Valentin; O'Rourke, Robert A.; Roberts, Robert W.; King, Spencer Bidwell; Prystowsky, Eric N. (2004). Hurst's the heart. New York City: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-143225-2. OCLC 52720664.
  2. ↑ Dr. Annapoorna Kini (2010-02-22). "Vitals". Vitals. Retrieved 2010-10-25.

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