Annapoorna Kini

Annapoorna Kini is an American cardiologist. She is Professor of Cardiology and Interventional Director of Structural Heart Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.[1][2]

Annapoorna Kini
Born
India
NationalityAmerican
EducationManipal Academy of Higher Education, Vivekananda College Puttur, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
Occupation(s)Zena and Michael A Wiener Professor of Medicine, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Known forCoronary interventions, Annapoorna S. Kini Fellows’ Choice Award
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
FieldPhysician, surgeon, researcher
InstitutionsThe Mount Sinai Health System
ResearchCoronary disease

Education

Kini completed her pre-university education from Vivekananda College, Puttur (D.K. District, Karnataka) in 1984. She received her MBBS from the Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore[2] in 1991, completing residencies at the University of Wales College of Medicine (in 1996). After receiving training in England, she became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London. She completed three fellowships at Mount Sinai Medical Center – in 1997, 2001, and 2002, respectively.[3]

Career

Kini serves as a Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Director of Interventional Structural Heart Disease Program, and Director of Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she was named Zena and Michael A. Wiener Medicine Professor in 2016. She researches on the field of percutaneous coronary intervention and heart valve therapy.[4]

Kini co-established, with Samin Sharma the Live Symposium of Complex Coronary and Vascular Cases in 1998 and has served as Director of the Annual Live Symposium of Complex Coronary & Vascular Cases at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.[5][6][1][7]

Awards

Kini was awarded the 2011 Dean's Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine by The Mount Sinai Health System.[5] In 2017 she was given the Ellis Island Medal of Honor to congratulate her on achievements as an Indian immigrant in the US.[4][5][6] She was the 2018 recipient of the Heart of Gold award from the American Heart Association[8][9] and in 2019 Kini was honored by the New York chapter of the Association of Indians in America for her successful career in cardiology.[10]

Publications

Kini has co-written and had published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, as well as book chapters in cardiology textbooks.

Books

She is co-author of Atlas of Coronary Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography, ISBN 3-319-62664-7, Practical Manual of Interventional Cardiology, ISBN 1-447-16580-2, Percutaneous Interventions in Women, An Issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, ISBN 1-455-73882-4, Advanced Applied Interventional Cardiology, An Issue of Cardiology Clinics, ISBN 1-437-71800-0, Cardiovascular Intensive Care, An Issue of Cardiology Clinics, ISBN 0-323-24217-0, Coronary artherectomy: Contemporary concepts in cardiology[11] and (with Dr. Valentín Fuster) of Definitions of acute coronary syndromes in Hurst's The Heart.[12]

Mobile applications

Kini designed and implemented a mobile app for treatment of patients with a ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, STEMI, medical emergency requiring immediate attention and treatment, STEMIcathAID. The app optimizes provides a communication platform for multiple teams taking care of a STEMI patients in order to reduce treatment delays and improve patient outcomes.[13][14][15] In addition, she created a suite of educational mobile and web applications covering different aspects of interventional cardiology such as bifurcation intervention, treatment of calcified lesion, optical coherence tomography imaging, coronary angiography and PCI in patients after TAVR, management of procedural complications and selection of appropriate coronary guidewires.[16]

Peer-reviewed articles

Partial list:

References
  1. "Prof. Annapoorna Kini, MD, MRCP, FACC". invivox.com. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  2. "Ellis Island Medalist Spotlight: Dr. Annapoorna Kini, MD". Medium. 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  3. Dr. Annapoorna Kini (2010-02-22). "Vitals". Vitals. Archived from the original on 2013-02-09. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
  4. Sanjiv, Deepthi (April 3, 2017). "Kannadiga to receive top US civilian honour". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  5. "Annapoorna Kini, MD, Awarded Ellis Island Medal of Honor | Mount Sinai - New York". Mount Sinai Health System. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  6. "Ellis Island Medalist Spotlight: Dr. Annapoorna Kini, MD". Medium. 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  7. "Dr Annapoorna Kini, Kanubhai Patel, Dr Tarun Wasil, Chanchal Devi Shah , Vaishali Deshmukh Honored at AIA New York Chapter Deepavali Benefit Gala". The Indian Panorama. 2019-09-14. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  8. "AHA Announces 2020 Heart & Stroke Ball Leaders and Honoree". New York City, NY Patch. 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  9. "Dr. Annapoorna Kini from Puttur honoured the Heart of Gold Award". www.mangaloretoday.com. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  10. "Dr Annapoorna Kini, Kanubhai Patel, Dr Tarun Wasil, Chanchal Devi Shah , Vaishali Deshmukh Honored at AIA New York Chapter Deepavali Benefit Gala". The Indian Panorama. 2019-09-14. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  11. Sharma, Samin K.; Kini, Annapoorna S. (1999). "Coronary Atherectomy". Contemporary Concepts in Cardiology. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine. Vol. 217. pp. 463–478. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-5007-5_28. ISBN 978-1-4613-7274-5.
  12. Nash, Ira S.; Fuster, Valentín; O'Rourke, Robert A.; Roberts, Robert W.; King, Spencer Bidwell; Prystowsky, Eric N. (2004). Hurst's the heart. New York City: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-143225-2. OCLC 52720664.
  13. Erica, Carbajal. "Mount Sinai cardiologist creates app to expedite time to care for heart attack patients". Becker's Hospital Review. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  14. "App launched to cut time to treatment for STEMI patients". Cardiovascular News. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  15. "Digital app speeds up time to STEMI care". Cardiovascular News. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  16. "Innovative Educational Toolbox For Interventional Cardiology". American College of Cardiology. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
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