Dublin Cardiovascular Research Forum - Prof. Ajay Kirtane
Cardiovascular Research Institute Dublin at Mater Private Network is pleased to advise the Summer 2025 schedule for the Dublin Cardiovascular Research Forum.
For further information visit: www.cvridublin.ie/education-and-publication/dublin-cardiovascular-research-forum/future-events
Speaker: Prof. Ajay Kirtane, MD, SM, is a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and Director of the Columbia Interventional Cardiovascular Care Center at New York Presbyterian (NYP) Hospital / CUMC.
Title: "Role of Revascularization in CCS"
Prof. Kirtane is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his residency/chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California – San Francisco. He completed fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease and Coronary and Peripheral Vascular Intervention at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School and has a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Prof. Kirtane is a practicing Cardiologist with an interest in coronary and peripheral intervention and assumed the directorship of the NYP/Columbia cardiac catheterization laboratories in 2015. In addition to his clinical commitments at CUMC, Prof. Kirtane has a strong interest in clinical education and research, serving as Chief Academic Officer of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy. On the national and international level, he is a co-director of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, has served as a director of several international, national, and regional educational meetings, and has participated on the program committees for the scientific sessions of both the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association. Prof. Kirtane’s research interests are in clinical trial methodology and outcomes of device-based and pharmacologic interventions in Interventional Cardiology. He has authored/co-authored >150 original manuscripts and >50 reviews and chapters including the “Coronary Stenting” chapters of the two most widely used textbooks in Interventional Cardiology. He is/has been Principal Investigator for several multicenter trials of interventional devices and serves on the steering committees of several large-scale clinical trials in interventional cardiovascular medicine. In his free time, Prof. Kirtane has avid interests in running, tennis, skiing, and music, and lives in New Jersey with his wife and 2 children.
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