At the 10th anniversary webcast, from left, Sameer Mehta, MD; Samin K. Sharma, MD; Annapoorna S. Kini, MD, the founders of the series, with three distinguished guests, Ron Waksman, MD; C. Michael Gibson, MD; and Habib Samady, MD.
The 10th anniversary of Complex Coronary Cases (CCC)—a live webcast that is viewed monthly by more than 10,000 physicians in 134 countries—was recently celebrated by Samin K. Sharma, MD, Director of Clinical and Interventional Cardiology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, and Anandi Lal Sharma Professor of Medicine in Cardiology; and Annapoorna S. Kini, MD, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, and the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Professor of Medicine.
During the webcasts, performed on the third Tuesday of each month, viewers are guided through a complex procedure by Dr. Kini and Dr. Sharma, who are leaders in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also known as angioplasty, which opens blocked arteries and restores normal blood fl ow to the heart. Participants are actively enaged and encouraged to ask questions during the webcast. “The overall goal of CCC Live Cases is to offer, to as many people as possible, unparalleled insight and training techniques in the complexities that physicians come across in the field of interventional cardiology,” Dr. Sharma said.
The anniversary webcast in June featured its 120th case, a 73-year-old man with angina and significant narrowing and calcium deposits in the right coronary artery. Dr. Kini performed a successful PCI procedure, reducing the calcific deposits by atherectomy and inserting a drug-eluting stent. The webcast was moderated by another founder of CCC Live Cases, Sameer Mehta, MD, a leading interventionalist and Chairman of the Lumen Foundation in Miami. Three other leaders in the field were guests: C. Michael Gibson, MD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Ron Waksman, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Georgetown University, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine; and Habib Samady, MD, Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and Chief of Interventional Cardiology, Emory University Hospitals.
Dr. Kini said, “I am very proud that, because of the global reach of this educational program, we have been able to teach interventionalists all around the world how to tackle complex cases in a simple way.” The program has expanded to offer live monthly webcasts on structural heart interventions and peripheral interventions.