From left: Sarah Lamothe, BSN, RN-BC; Surbhi Chamaria, MD; Yuliya Vengrenyuk, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Annapoorna S. Kini, MD; Haydee Garcia, MSN, ACNP-BC; Asma Khaliq, MD; and Jennifer Del Campo, MSN, FNP-C. All but Ms. Garcia and Ms. Del Campo participated in the live-case demonstration.
It was an historic moment at a cardiology conference when Mount Sinai’s Annapoorna S. Kini, MD, led an all-female team for the first time in a live-case demonstration.
The demonstration was beamed from The Mount Sinai Hospital to an audience attending the CRT 2018 meeting, a leading interventional cardiology conference that took place in March in Washington, D.C.
The team consisted of female cardiologists, nurses, and technicians from The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory with participation from female fellows Surbhi Chamaria, MD, and Asma Khaliq, MD. They performed a complex percutaneous coronary intervention with stent procedure on an elderly high-risk patient.
The panel discussing the case live was also all-female, and included Mount Sinai’s Roxana Mehran, MD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute.
Says Dr. Kini: “The entire Mount Sinai Cath Lab team was excited and proud of this achievement. Our goal was to encourage every female cardiologist to be optimistic and confident in this male-dominated field. It was a true demonstration that if we work hard and push our boundaries, we can achieve great heights in the field we love.”