Interview: Interventional cardiology: a passion resulting in excellent outcomes

Samin K Sharma speaks to Caroline Telfer, Assistant Commissioning Editor Dr Samin K Sharma, MD, is the Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Mount Sinai Medical Center (NY, USA), known for performing over 1600 complex coronary and valvular intervetions a year (the highest in the USA) with extremely low complication rates (<0.2%). He has had the highest success rate of angioplasty (New York State Department of Health Report) among interventional cardiologists in New York State from 1994–2003 and 2007–2008 receiving the prestigious double star status for statistically lower 30-day risk adjusted mortality. Samin Sharma has received many awards including ‘Best Teacher’, ‘Physician of the Year’ and the ‘Governor’s Excellence Award’. In 2012, he was named as a top doctor in US News and World Report.