Newswise — (New York, NY – October 31, 2022) –Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, a apical adept successful cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology, has been named Director of Mount Sinai Heart. Dr. Bhatt volition pb the educational, research, and objective cardiovascular enactment of the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System opening Thursday, December 1. He volition besides service arsenic the Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, the archetypal doc to clasp this endowed professorship.
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart since its founding successful 2006, volition go President of Mount Sinai Heart arsenic of Sunday, January 1, 2023. “The Mount Sinai Health System volition beryllium enriched by the outstanding recruitment of Dr. Deepak Bhatt, 1 of the astir superb clinicians and academicians successful the cardiovascular tract today,” said Dr. Fuster.
Dr. Bhatt comes to Mount Sinai from Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, wherever helium has been Executive Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs, and Harvard Medical School, wherever helium has been Professor of Medicine. Previously, helium served arsenic Chief of Cardiology astatine VA Boston Healthcare from 2008-2013, and anterior to that held a assortment of enactment positions astatine Cleveland Clinic.
“A worthy successor to Dr. Fuster would beryllium astir intolerable to find, but Deepak Bhatt is the uncommon idiosyncratic who tin really conscionable that standard. Mount Sinai’s bequest of world-leading cardiology volition proceed nether his leadership,” said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai Health System.
Dr. Bhatt is highly recognized for his important breakthroughs successful the tract of cardiology, including interventional cardiology, bosom illness prevention, vascular medicine, and bosom failure. He led a proceedings that demonstrated the payment of a potent intravenous antithrombotic cause during stenting, including important reductions successful stent clotting, which led to its Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency approvals. His enactment has besides resulted successful the archetypal FDA-approved drug, an omega-3 fatty acerb medicine medication, to trim cardiovascular hazard among patients with elevated triglyceride levels already treated with statins. He besides led the archetypal proceedings to amusement a important payment of a medication, an SGLT2 inhibitor, successful treating patients who person bosom nonaccomplishment contempt having mean bosom musculus function, a large milestone successful medicine. His enactment has besides helped beforehand the knowing and attraction of patients with diabetes and obesity who person cardiovascular disease.
“Deepak Bhatt is 1 of the astir outstanding researchers and clinicians successful cardiology today,” said Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs of the Mount Sinai Health System. “In recruiting him to Mount Sinai, what was precise important to maine was his ambition to elevate Mount Sinai Heart—one of the world’s apical cardiovascular objective and probe centers—to adjacent greater heights. He is simply a worthy successor to Valentin Fuster. To me, determination is nary higher praise.”
Dr. Bhatt is the Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Associate Editor for Clinical Trials and News for the American College of Cardiology website, Editor of Cardiovascular Intervention: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease and of Opie's Cardiovascular Drugs: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease, a co-Editor of Braunwald’s Heart Disease, and Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Heart Letter for patients. Dr. Bhatt has authored oregon co-authored much than 1,900 publications.
Dr. Bhatt earned his undergraduate grade from MIT, his aesculapian grade from Cornell University, and a Master of Public Health with a attraction successful objective effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his internship and residency successful interior medicine astatine the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and was a chap successful cardiovascular medicine, interventional cardiology, and cerebral and peripheral vascular involution astatine the Cleveland Clinic, wherever helium had besides served arsenic Chief Interventional Cardiology Fellow.
He received the Research Mentor Award from Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine successful 2016. the Eugene Braunwald Teaching Award for Excellence successful the Teaching of Clinical Cardiology from Brigham and Women’s Hospital successful 2017, the American College of Cardiology’s Distinguished Mentor Award successful 2018, the American Heart Association’s Distinguished Scientist Award successful 2019, the National Lipid Association’s Honorary Lifetime Membership Award successful 2021, and the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention’s Master designation successful 2022.
“I americium precise excited to instrumentality connected this enactment relation astatine Mount Sinai Heart, 1 of the champion cardiovascular centers successful the satellite for objective care, research, and education. I americium humbled to beryllium named the Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor - it is simply a singular grant successful the satellite of medicine that is unmatched,” said Dr. Bhatt.
Mount Sinai Heart is 1 of the nation’s apical 6 hospitals successful Cardiology/Heart Surgery
Mount Sinai Heart is among the apical 6 successful the federation for cardiology and cardiac surgery, according to U.S. News & World Report. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Specialized Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Heart arsenic No. 1 successful New York and No. 4 globally.
It is portion of Mount Sinai Health System, which is New York City's largest world aesculapian system, encompassing 8 hospitals, a starring aesculapian school, and a immense web of ambulatory practices passim the greater New York region. We beforehand medicine and wellness done unrivaled acquisition and translational probe and find to present attraction that is the safest, highest-quality, astir accessible and equitable, and the champion worth of immoderate wellness strategy successful the nation. The Health System includes astir 7,300 superior and specialty attraction physicians; 13 free-standing joint-venture centers; much than 410 ambulatory practices passim the 5 boroughs of New York City, Westchester, and Long Island; and much than 30 affiliated assemblage wellness centers. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked successful U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" of the apical 20 U.S. hospitals and among the apical successful the federation by specialty: No. 1 successful Geriatrics and apical 20 successful Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Urology, and Rehabilitation.
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