STEMI Interventions

Contributors

CONSULTING EDITORS

SAMIN K. SHARMA, MD, FSCAI, FACC

Director of Clinical Cardiology; Director of

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Mount

Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York

IGOR F. PALACIOS, MD, FSCAI

Director of Interventional Cardiology,

Cardiology Division, Heart Center,

Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical

School, Boston, Massachusetts

GUEST EDITOR

SAMEER MEHTA, MD, FACC, MBA

Voluntary Associate Clinical Professor of

Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University

of Miami; Mercy Medical Center; Director,

Lumen Foundation, Miami, Florida

AUTHORS

ANISH AMIN, MD

Cardiology Fellow, Department of Medicine,

Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood,

Illinois

MELISSA S.K. BLONDEAU, BSc

Coordinator, STEMI Regional Program,

Department of Medicine, Division of

Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart

Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

ROBERTO V. BOTELHO, MD, PhD

Instituto do Coracao do Triangulo, Uberlandia,

Minas Gerais, Brazil

MIGUEL A. CAMPOS-ESTEVE, MD, FACC

Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories,

Pavia Hospital, Santurce, Puerto Rico

CHABELY CARDENAS

Lumen Foundation, Miami, Florida

ANJAN K. CHAKRABARTI, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Fellow,

Cardiovascular Division, Department of

Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston,

Massachusetts

SALOMON COHEN, MD

Surgery Resident, Departamento de

Neurocirugia, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro

Social, Lomas Country, Huixquilucan Edo de

Mexico, Mexico

ROBERT S. DIETER, MD, RVT

Associate Professor of Vascular &

Endovascular Medicine, Department of

Interventional Cardiology, Loyola University

Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois; Chief of

Vascular Medicine and Cardiovascular

Interventions; Medical Director,

Cardiovascular Collaborative Hines,

VA Hospital, Illinois

Contributorsiv

BRENO A.A. FALCAO, MD

Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo,

School ofMedicine, Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil

ANTONIO FERNANDEZ-ORTIZ, MD, PhD

Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular

Institute, Clınico ‘San Carlos’ University

Hospital, Madrid, Spain

FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ, BSc

MedSolutions, Sao Paulo, Brazil

ANA ISABEL FLORES, MD

Research Assistant, Lumen Foundation,

Miami, Florida

C. MICHAEL GIBSON, MS, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard

Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;

Chairman, PERFUSE Study Group; Founder

and Chairman of the Board, WikiDoc

Foundation, San Francisco, California

JASRAI GILL, MD

Cardiology Fellow, Department of Medicine,

Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood,

Illinois

JAVIER GOICOLEA, MD

Department of Cardiology, Puerta de Hierro

Hospital, Madrid, Spain

LAKSHMI GOPALAKRISHNAN, MBBS

Research Fellow, Cardiovascular

Division, Department of Medicine,

Harvard Medical School; PERFUSE

Angiographic Core Laboratories, Data

Coordinating Center; Beth Israel

Deaconess Medical Center, Boston,

Massachusetts

NILUSHA GUKATHASAN, MD

Research Fellow, Mount Sinai School of

Medicine, New York, New York

TIMOTHY D. HENRY, MD

Director of Research, Minneapolis

Heart Institute Foundation,

Abbott-Northwestern Hospital; Professor

of Medicine, University of Minnesota,

Minneapolis, Minnesota

DAVID A. HILDEBRANDT, RN, EMT-P

Cardiovascular Emergency Program Manager,

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation,

Abbott-Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis,

Minnesota

ANNAPOORNA S. KINI, MD

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory of the

Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital,

New York, New York

JENNIFER C. KOSTELA, MS, MD

Internal Medicine, New York Hospital

Queens, Flushing, New York; Ross University

School of Medicine, North Brunswick,

New Jersey

JASON C. KOVACIC, MD, PhD

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory of the

Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital,

New York, New York

VARUN KUMAR, MBBS

Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Division,

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical

School; PERFUSE Angiographic Core

Laboratories, Data Coordinating Center; Beth

Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston,

Massachusetts

ALEXANDRA J. LANSKY, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Director

Interventional Cardiology Research,

Co-Director, Valve Program, Yale

University School of Medicine, Yale

University Medical Center, New Haven,

Connecticut

DAVID M. LARSON, MD

Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine,

Ridgeview Medical Center, Waconia,

Minnesota; Associate Clinical Professor,

University of Minnesota Medical School,

Minneapolis, Minnesota

MICHEL R. LE MAY, MD

Director, Coronary Care Unit, Director,

STEMI Regional Program, Department of

Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University

of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario,

Canada

CARLOS MACAYA, MD, PhD

Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular

Institute, Clınico ‘San Carlos’ University

Hospital, Madrid, Spain

AHMED MAGDY, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Department of Cardiology, National Heart

Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Contributors v

ROXANA MEHRAN, MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine (Cardiology),

Director of Interventional Cardiovascular

Research and Clinical Trials, Zena and Michael

A Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai

School of Medicine; Cardiovascular Research

Foundation, New York, New York

SAMEER MEHTA, MD, FACC, MBA

Voluntary Associate Clinical Professor of

Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University

of Miami; Mercy Medical Center; Director,

Lumen Foundation, Miami, Florida

AJIT S. MULLASARI, MD, DM, DNB, FRCP

Director, Department of Cardiology, Institute of

Cardio Vascular Diseases, Madras Medical

Mission, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

ARAVINDA NANJUNDAPPA, MD,

FACC, FSCAI, RVT

Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery,

West Virginia University, Charleston,

West Virginia

VIVIAN G. NG, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine;

Director, Interventional Cardiology Research;

Co-Director, Valve Program, Yale University

School of Medicine, Yale University Medical

Center, New Haven, Connecticut

ESTEFANIA OLIVEROS, MD

Research Fellow, Lumen Foundation, Miami,

Florida

BALAJI PAKSHIRAJAN, MD, DNB

Consultant, Department of Cardiology,

Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases,

Madras Medical Mission, Chennai,

Tamil Nadu, India

SAMIR PANCHOLY, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Associate Professor of Medicine and

Program Director, Fellowship in

Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of

Cardiovascular Sciences, The Commonwealth

Medical College, The Wright Center for

Graduate Medical Education, Scranton,

Pennsylvania

NIRAJ PAREKH, MD

Cardiology Fellow, Department of Medicine,

Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood,

Illinois

SHALIN J. PATEL, MD

Senior Internal Medicine Resident,

Cardiovascular Division, Department of

Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston,

Massachusetts

TEJAS PATEL, MD, DM, FACC, FESC, FSCAI

Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular

Sciences, Apex Heart Institute; Professor

and Head, Department of Cardiovascular

Sciences, Sheth K.M. School of Post

Graduate Medicine and Research, Smt. NHL

Municipal Medical College, Sheth V.S. General

Hospital, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad,

Gujarat, India

CAMILO PENA, MD

Research Assistant, Lumen Foundation,

Miami, Florida

UJJWAL RASTOGI, MBBS

Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Division,

Department of Medicine, PERFUSE

Angiographic Core Laboratories and Data

Coordinating Center; Beth Israel Deaconess

Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

ANDER REGUEIRO, MD

Department of Cardiology, Thorax Institute,

Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain

ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ-VILA, MD, MMS,

FACC

Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories,

Cardiology Section, VA Caribbean Healthcare

System, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Director,

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Auxilio

Mutuo Hospital, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

REBECCA ROWEN, BS

Ross University School of Medicine, North

Brunswick, New Jersey

MANEL SABATE, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiology, Thorax Institute,

Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain

ROBERT L. SALAZAR, MD

Senior Internal Medicine Resident,

Cardiovascular Division, Department of

Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston,

Massachusetts

Contributorsvi

HISHAM SELIM, MD

National Heart Institute, Cairo, Egypt

ZIAD SERGIE, MD, MBA

Cardiology Fellow, Mount Sinai School of

Medicine, New York, New York

SANJAY SHAH, MD, DM

Director, Department of Cardiovascular

Sciences, Apex Heart Institute; Assistant

Professor, Department of Cardiovascular

Sciences, Sheth K.M. School of Post

Graduate Medicine and Research, Smt.

NHL Municipal Medical College, Sheth V.S.

General Hospital, Gujarat University,

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

AMIT B. SHARMA, MD

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory of the

Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital,

New York, New York

PRIYAMVADA SINGH, MBBS

Research Fellow, Cardiovascular

Division, Department of Medicine,

PERFUSE Angiographic Core Laboratories

and Data Coordinating Center; Beth Israel

Deaconess Medical Center, Boston,

Massachusetts

VIJAYAKUMAR SUBBAN, MD, DM, FNB

Consultant, Department of Cardiology,

Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases,

Madras Medical Mission, Chennai,

Tamil Nadu, India

KEVIN TRETO, BS

Ross University School of Medicine, Winter

Springs, Florida

THAIS WAISMAN, MD, MBA, PhD

Post Doctorate, Engineering School at

University of Sao Paulo, INTERLAB-EPUSP,

Sao Paulo, Brazil

MONA YOUSSEF, MD

National Heart Institute, Cairo, Egypt

JENNIFER J. YU, MBBS, FRACP

Interventional Cardiology Fellow, Mount Sinai

School of Medicine, New York, New York

TRACY ZHANG, BS

Lumen Global Director, Lumen Foundation,

Miami, Florida

CAFER ZORKUN, MD

Department Chief, Division of Cardiology,

Yedikule Education and Research Hospital,

Istanbul, Turkey