Prof. Srihari Naidu New York Medical College, USA

Srihari S. Naidu is a Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY. He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island for both undergraduate and medical school as part of the 8-year program. Following this, he was a resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Cornell Medical... read moreCenter in Manhattan, and then a cardiology and interventional cardiology fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After several years as an attending at New York Presbyterian – Cornell and NYU Winthrop, he moved to Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College. There he is currently Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy National Center of Excellence - with offices in Long Island and Westchester - at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY. He is a two-term Past Member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Interventional Scientific Council, Associate Director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), and has served on the Program Committee for the American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions.

He is the author of over 130 original scientific manuscripts, and has authored clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements on behalf of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA) and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), including Chairing the National Best Practices in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory document that outlines optimal process improvement for all cardiac catheterization laboratories in the United States. Naidu is Founder and Past Chair of the Emerging Leader Mentorship (ELM) Program for SCAI (in partnership with ACC and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation), a national leadership pipeline initiated in 2010 that identifies and trains 12 interventional cardiologists every two years.