Prakash Krishnan

Biography

Prakash Krishnan, MD, FACC, FSCAI 

Dr. Prakash Krishnan has worked tirelessly to provide critical medical services to the disadvantaged and underprivileged around the world.  He embarked on this mission in India, where he completed medical school in 1995.   He then moved to New York and completed a residency in internal medicine at The St. Vincent’s Medical Center in June 1998.  During this period he was honored as the intern of the year and subsequently Chief Resident in 1998.  He then relocated to New Orleans, LA where he completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in June 2003. On this year he served as chief cardiology fellow for his exemplary performance as a cardiology fellow.  During that period he began doing research in the field of interventional cardiology and endovascular interventions.  The year after he relocated to New York and completed an interventional cardiology fellowship at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in June 2004.  During that year, he was the only one in his class to also complete an additional Endovascular Fellowship.

Dr. Krishnan then joined The Mount Sinai School of Medicine with a dual academic appointment of assistant professor of Medicine-Cardiology and Radiology.  He was also named Director of Endovascular Interventions of Mount Sinai Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory after developing the largest volume endovascular program in the Tri-State area.  Dr. Krishnan is also a Co-Director of the annual Live Symposium of Complex Coronary & Vascular Cases, a Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Cardiovascular Institute supported program.  He is also the Director of Mount Sinai’s Peripheral Interventions Live Web Cast, a monthly interactive presentation of a complex endovascularcase that is broadcasted live on the web with the intention of teaching interventional cardiologist, interventional radiologist and vascular surgeons around the world on the latest data, approaches and techniques in the management of peripheral arterial disease. 

Dr. Krishnan has been committed to service his community and the underprivileged sector of inner city New York and around the world.   He is the Founder and Director of the Gift Project for Global Cardiovascular Health (GIVE), a non-for-profit organization committed to improve global cardiovascular health by fostering partnership among major academic medical centers, business, governments, non-governmental organizations and private citizens. GIVE provides free care to patients with complex cardiac and vascular diseases in developing countries.

Dr. Krishnan has also earned and maintained board certifications in good standing and licenses evidencing his fitness to practice medicine and his determination to achieve excellence, including: (i)American Board of Internal Medicine Certification in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Interventions; (ii)State University of New York Medical License.  Dr. Krishnan has been elected Fellow of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI) and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC).

Dr. Krishnan has been a leader in his field and invited to lecture at both national and international conferences. In 2006 he was a guest faculty at “Extreme Vascular Interventions” annual international meeting in Venice, Italy.  In the United States he has given numerous conferences and Grand Rounds at major academic institutions such as Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia University School of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Mount Sinai-Elmhurst, North General Hospital, Richmond University Medical Center, among others.  He has recently been invited as a guess faculty to the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Meeting in April 2012, the largest cardiology meeting in the world, and Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the largest interventional cardiology meeting in the world, in November 2011 and 2012,   He is currently a primary investigator in numerous clinical research protocols and has published on numerous peer reviewed medical journals including: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB), The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, and Cardiovascular Pathology among others.

The level of respect for Dr. Krishnan in the community has risen to the point where he is interviewed on medical affairs by New York’s WB 11 news.