Invasive Cardiology near Rego Park, NY

Biography: Dr. Mohit Turagam, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 46 years old and has been practicing for 21 years. Dr. Mohit Turagam, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

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Biography: Dr. Ali Zaidi, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 50 years old and has been practicing for 26 years. Dr. Ali Zaidi, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Gioia Turitto, MD is board certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. Dr. Turitto graduated from University Campus Biomedico Di Roma and completed her medical internship, residency and fellowships at SUNY Health Science Center. Dr. Turitto's clinical interests include arrhytmia ablation, risk stratification for sudden cardiac death, device implantation, syncope and heart failure. Dr. Turitto is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University.

Biography: Dr. Yongxia Qu is a cardiologist in Brooklyn, New York and is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She completed her medical training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Qu's clinical interests include clinical cardiology, diagnostic cardiovascular imaging, electrophysiology and cardiovascular research. Dr. Qu speaks multiple languages, including Chinese (Mandarin).

Biography: Dr. Nir Uriel, an internationally recognized leader in heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplantation, has been named Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian. Dr. Uriel will oversee heart failure programs at NewYork-Presbyterian's campuses in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Westchester, with a goal to increase accessibility of care for those with advanced heart failure throughout the New York area. Dr. Uriel was born and raised in Israel, where he attended medical school. After serving for four years as a physician in the Israeli Defense Forces, he then completed his cardiology residency and fellowship. In 2008, he moved to New York to pursue fellowships at NewYork- Presbyterian/Columbia in cardiology, heart failure, transplant, and mechanical circulatory support and remained here as a faculty member until 2014. He then served as the Louis Block Professor of Medicine and Director of Heart Failure, Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support at the University of Chicago Medicine, where, in 2018, he and his Chicago team made history performing two tripleorgan transplants within 27 hours. A dedicated researcher with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Uriel has improved treatment protocols for patients with end-stage heart failure and has extended criteria for the use of ventricular assist devices and eligibility for transplant for high-risk patients, including those who are HIV positive. His research continues with a focus on interactions of medical devices, such as VADS, with the human body.

Biography: Dr. Gabriel Sayer is the Associate Director of Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory support at NewYork-Presbyterian. In this role, Dr. Sayer provides leadership and oversight for the comprehensive heart failure services provided across NewYork-Presbyterian, including the campuses in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Westchester. Dr. Sayer attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by Internal Medicine residency at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He completed Cardiology fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center and his Advanced Heart Failure fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to joining NewYork-Presbyterian in 2019, Dr. Sayer worked at the University of Chicago for six years, where he was the Associate Director of the Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation programs. In addition to his extensive clinical experience in all aspects of heart failure, Dr. Sayer has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles in the field of advanced heart failure. His research interests include the impact of of heart failure treatments on cardiac physiology, with a particular interest in the interaction between patients and mechanical circulatory support devices. https://youtu.be/vT5s8orP6V8