DEFINE-FLAIR Study: 60 Second Insights

Published: 08 March 2018

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Overview

A series of 60-second interviews where Colin Berry, Ajay Kirtane, Justin Davies, Rajesh Kharbanda, Javier Escaned, Morton Kern and Manesh Patel provide their thoughts on the DEFINE-FLAIR Study.

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Part 1

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Are you surprised that DEFINE-FLAIR showed that iFR was non-inferior to FFR?

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Faculty Biographies

Morton J Kern

Morton J Kern

Professor

Dr Morton J Kern, MD, is a professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and chief of cardiology at the Long Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Dr Kern received his medical degree and completed his internship/residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, and followed that with a fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. Before joining the University of California, Irvine, in 2006, Kern was a professor of medicine at St. Louis University, where he was also director of the J.G. Mudd Cardiac Catheterization Lab.

Kern is the author of several major textbooks, including The Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, which is used nationally and internationally to train physicians in the subject, and the recently published second edition of the SCAI Interventional Cardiology Board Review. His research interests include interventional cardiology education and practice, ACS, hemodynamics and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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