Chronic Total Occlusions (CTO): 60 Second Insights

Published: 08 March 2018

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Overview

A series of 60-second interviews where Ajay Kirtane, Simon Walsh, Paul Knappen, Emmanouil Brilakis, Carlos Di Mario, Partick Serruys and Gerald Werner provide their thoughts on CTOs.

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Faculty Biographies

Ajay J Kirtane

Ajay J Kirtane

Ajay J Kirtane is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy, Division of Cardiology, at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). He is a practising interventional cardiologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital/CUMC with an interest in coronary and peripheral intervention. Dr Kirtane is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed clinical and research fellowships in cardiovascular disease and coronary and peripheral vascular intervention at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Honors & Awards
Columbia University Medical Center:
2009 Ewig Clinical Teaching Award (three-year funded award), Department of Medicine
2010 Daniel V. Kimberg Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Medicine (given annually to a single recipient)
2011-present Selected to be a Firm Attending on the Neu Firm, Columbia…

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