Overview
| Subspecialty | Cardiology |
|---|---|
| Clinical Interests | Interventional Cardiology |
| General Cardiology | |
| Languages | English |
| Indian (Hindi) | |
| Spanish | |
| Gender | Female |
| annapoorna.kini@mountsinai.org | |
| Education and Training | MBBS, Kasturba Medical College |
| Internship, Internal Medicine, Kasturba Medical College | |
| Residency, Medicine/Cardiology, University of Wales College of Med | |
| Residency, Internal Medicine, Our Lady of Mercy Med. Center/ Montefiore North | |
| Fellowship, Interventional, Mount Sinai Hospital | |
| Fellowship, Cardiovascular Dis., Mount Sinai Hospital | |
| Fellowship, Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital |
2009 Live Symposium of Complex Coronary and Cardiovascular Cases (June 17-20)
Join us for the 12th Annual Live Symposium of Complex Coronary and Cardiovascular Cases. This Continuing Medical Education program, headed by Drs. Samin Sharma and Annapoorna Kini, brings together more than 500 doctors, nurses, and technicians to learn about the latest developments in interventional cardiology. In addition to our own faculty, this year's guest faculty consists of 23 world-renowned interventional cardiologists from around the globe. This year's symposium will include 24 live cases with panel discussions, which will highlight: treatment of total chronic occlusion; unprotected left main and bifurcation coronary lesions; using left ventricular assist device for support; and treatment of carotid, renal, femoral, and infrapopliteal vascular disease. The primary focus of this live course is to present a multi-device approach to revascularization of patients with complex cardiovascular disease, emphasizing step-by-step intricate details of the procedural techniques, in a safe and successful procedure. Learn more or register
Dr. Annapoorna Kini performs over 800 coronary interventions annually (the highest number by a female interventionalist in the United States) with extremely low complication rate, less than 0.5 percent. She is well known for performing the complex coronary interventions in advanced heart disease patients with utmost safety and excellent long-term results. Many of these high-risk patients require the support of heart assist (Tandem Heart) device and she has become the national expert for the use of this lifesaving technology. Dr. Kini also specializes in the non-coronary interventions of mitral and aortic balloon valvuloplasty, and alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Being the Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Heart Cath lab she is responsible for day-to-day smooth functioning of very high volume Cardiac Cath lab which performs more than 15,000 total procedures including 5,200 interventions. Dr. Kini also serves as the Director of Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program involving six-to-seven fellows from the United States and overseas. Mount Sinai fellowship is one of the largest and Dr. Kini is responsible for selection and training of these fellows.
Along with Dr. Sharma, Dr. Kini played a key role in starting the Live Symposium of Complex Coronary Cases in 1998, which has had overwhelming success every year by performing live complex coronary cases. She is the co-director of the Live Symposium since it's inception and has served as the organizer, planner, and performer of the live cases.
Dr. Kini is widely published on various topics of Interventional Cardiology, including peri-procedural enzyme elevations, rotational atheretomy, Tandem heart and other newer devices, contrast nephropathy, valvuloplasties. She has authored numerous book chapters in the field of acute coronary syndrome and coronary interventions. She serves as the site Principal Investigator for numerous multicenter trials including NIH sponsored COPES trial. She maintains a large interventional database more than 10,000 PCI patients, which helps in analysis and publications of short and long term outcomes after all kinds of coronary interventions.
Dr. Kini is recipient of the Young Investigator Award of American Association of Cardiology of Indian Origin (AAICO) in 1999.
Dr. Kini received her medical degree from Kasurba Medical College, Mangalore, India. She was the best outgoing student having received three honors and gold medals. She then strengthened her clinical Cardiology in England and become the member of Royal College of Physicians of London. She came to Mount Sinai, New York in 1996 and underwent further training in Cardiology under Dr. Valentin Fuster and Interventional Cardiology under Dr. Samin Sharma.
