Samin Sharma
{{short description|American interventional cardiologist}}
{{notability|Biography|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Samin K. Sharma
| image = Dr. Samin K. Sharma.jpg
| caption = Samin K. Sharma in 2019
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|5|28}}
| birth_place = Alwar, India
| occupation = Cardiologist
| employer = The Mount Sinai Hospital
Dr. Samin K. Sharma Family Foundation Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
| known_for = Interventional cardiology,
co-founder, Eternal Heart Care Centre and Research Institute
| spouse = Manju Sharma
| nationality = Indian, American
}}
Samin K. Sharma (born May 28, 1955) is an American philanthropist of Indian descent and an interventional cardiologist{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Should You Have a Heart Procedure During the Coronavirus Pandemic? |url=https://health.usnews.com/conditions/articles/should-you-have--heart-procedure-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2020-05-29 |website=U.S. News}}{{Cite web |title=New York Heart Surgeons Are Turning Away Needy Patients - Nymag |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/health/features/14788/ |access-date=2020-05-29 |website=New York Magazine |date=13 October 2005 |language=en-us}} who co-founded the Eternal Heart Care Centre and Research Institute in Jaipur (EHCC).{{Cite web |title=Cath Lab Digest News |url=https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/cathlab/content/society-cardiovascular-angiography-and-interventions-bestows-highest-designation-ranking-leading-interventional-cardiologists |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com}} Sharma has served on New York State’s Cardiac Advisory Board since 2004. As of 2021, he is Senior Vice-President, Operations & Quality at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York{{Cite web |title=Heart should be checked within a few months of Covid-19 recovery: Dr. Samin Sharma |url=https://www.indiablooms.com/health-details/H/9960/heart-should-be-checked-within-a-few-months-of-covid-19-recovery-dr-samin-sharma.html |access-date=2022-03-22 |website=Indiablooms.com |language=en}} and runs the Dr. Samin K. Sharma Family Foundation Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.{{Cite web |title=Dr Samin Sharma Family Foundation |url=https://www.grantmakers.io/profiles/v0/201593513-dr-samin-sharma-family-foundation/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Grantmakers.io |language=en}} As of 2018, he is Chairman Board of Trustees, Association of Indians in America (AIA).{{Cite web |title=Association of Indians In America's new National Executive Committee sworn in |website=News India Times |date=8 February 2022 |url=https://www.newsindiatimes.com/association-of-indians-in-americas-new-national-executive-committee-sworn-in/ |access-date=2022-04-07 |language=en-US}} As of 2022, he has been an investigator on 86 grants and multi-center trials and authored 486 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited 21,734 times.
Biography
= Education =
Sharma was born to a Brahmin family in Alwar, India.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2014-03-06|title=Mount Sinai Cath Lab Takes NYC Heart Emergencies by Appointment|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-06/mount-sinai-cath-lab-takes-nyc-heart-emergencies-by-appointment|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-29|website=Bloomberg.com}} He graduated from Rajgarh Higher Secondary School in Alwar. In 1972, he received his bachelor of science degree from University Maharaja College then his MBBS degree from SMS Medical Department of Pharmacy, Jaipur in 1978.
= Early career =
Sharma traveled to New York in 1983{{Cite web|title=Jaipur hospital saves two heart patients with new technology |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/city-hospital-saves-two-heart-patients-with-new-technology/articleshow/73196535.cms|date=January 11, 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2020-05-29}} for a three-year residency in internal medicine at the NY Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital (1983-1986), a two-year fellowship in cardiology at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens (1986-1988). He trained with Mount Sinai's chief of cardiology, Dr. Valentín Fuster. He was concurrently an emergency department physician in Queens and was later hired to Mount Sinai's cardiology department. He is the director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.{{Cite news|last=Kolata|first=Gina|date=2020-04-25|title=Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, Heart and Stroke Patients Go Missing|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/health/coronavirus-heart-stroke.html|access-date=2020-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|title=New York doctor explains reasons behind reduction in heart attacks by 30 to 70% during coronavirus COVID-19|url=https://zeenews.india.com/world/new-york-doctor-explains-reasons-behind-reduction-in-heart-attacks-by-30-to-70-during-coronavirus-covid-19-2279610.html|date=2020-04-28|website=Zee News|language=en|access-date=2020-05-29}}
Career
= Specialty =
Sharma specializes in the non-surgical treatment of mitral and aortic stenosis.{{Cite web |last=Charles |first=Katie |title=Cardiologist Dr. Samin Sharma of Mount Sinai is an expert at treating aortic stenosis |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/cardiologist-dr-samin-sharma-aortic-stenosis-article-1.1364026 |access-date=2020-05-29 |website=nydailynews.com|date=9 June 2013 }}{{Cite web |title=Experts Say Expanded TAVI/TAVR Heart Valve Use Has Safety Risk |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/implant-files/experts-warn-expanded-heart-valve-use-risks-patient-safety/ |access-date=2020-05-29 |website=ICIJ |date=26 November 2018 |language=en-US}} He reportedly performed 3,722 angioplasties over three years (2005-2007) according to a study by the New York State Department of Health.{{Cite web |title=Mount Sinai Hospital Earns Highest Ratings in New York State Report on Coronary Angioplasty |url=http://www.ptca.org/news/2010/0506_MTSINAI.html |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.ptca.org}} He also performs rotational atherectomy, an alternative to angioplasty for complex, calcified coronary lesions.{{Cite journal |last1=Sharma |first1=Samin K. |last2=Tomey |first2=Matthew I. |last3=Teirstein |first3=Paul S. |last4=Kini |first4=Annapoorna S. |last5=Reitman |first5=Arthur B. |last6=Lee |first6=Arthur C. |last7=Généreux |first7=Philippe |last8=Chambers |first8=Jeffrey W. |last9=Grines |first9=Cindy L. |last10=Himmelstein |first10=Stevan I. |last11=Thompson |first11=Craig A. |title=North American Expert Review of Rotational Atherectomy |journal=Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions |year=2019 |volume=12 |issue=5 |pages=e007448 |doi=10.1161/circinterventions.118.007448 |pmid=31084239 |s2cid=155091216 |issn=1941-7640|doi-access=free }} He has published extensively on the procedure{{Cite web |title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=sharma+rotational+atherectomy&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=scholar.google.com}} and he is a principal investigator (PI) on scores of clinical trials and research grants analyzing and contrasting forms of interventional cardiology. In 2009, he performed a coronary angiography and angioplasty procedure on Indian Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh.
= Clinical trials =
As of 2022, Sharma participated as an investigator on more than 80 grants and multi-center trials. Recent and current trials focus on transcatheter aortic valve replacement, protracted percutaneous coronary interventions, outcomes of moderate to severely calcified coronary lesions, best practices, the performance of self-expanding vs balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement, post-market device and procedural outcomes, refractory angina and rotational atherectomy.{{Cite web |title=History of Changes for Study: NCT01930214 |url=https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/history/NCT01930214?V_8=View |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=clinicaltrials.gov}}{{Cite journal |date=2021-05-06 |title=The Global cVAD Study |url=https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04136392}}{{Cite journal |date=2022-02-21 |title=SMall Annuli Randomized To Evolut™ or SAPIEN™ Trial |url=https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04722250}}{{Cite journal |date=2022-03-22 |title=Optimize PRO Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Post Market Study |url=https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04091048}}{{Cite journal |date=2022-03-08 |title=Impella®-Supported PCI in High-Risk Patients With Complex Coronary Artery Disease and Reduced Left Ventricular Function: The PROTECT IV Trial |url=https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04763200}}{{Cite journal |first=Samin |last=Sharma|date=2022-02-25 |title=Rotational Atherectomy Combined With Cutting Balloon to Optimize Stent Expansion in Calcified Lesions |url=https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04865588}}
= Recognition =
A partial listing of his awards and recognition includes Businessman of the Year by national Republican Congressional Committee for 2001-2002, Rajasthan Gaurav award in Jaipur by Rajasthan Government, India (2002), Rajive Gandhi Memorial Award for outstanding community service and medical excellence for India (2005), Governor’s award of excellence for outstanding contribution to Medicine, New York State (2006), Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2011).{{cn|date=December 2023}}
= Eternal Heart Care Centre, Jaipur =
Sharma co-founded the Eternal Heart Care Center in 2004{{Cite web |title=Eternal Heart Care Center Private Limited - Company Information, Directors, Revenue & More |url=https://www.insiderbiz.in/company/ETERNAL-HEART-CARE-CENTER-PRIVATE-LIMITED |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=www.insiderbiz.in |language=en}} with his wife, Manju Sharma. This 250-bed tertiary multidisciplinary hospital offers care to patients of any socioeconomic status. The plan for this hospital was conceived in 2007 when the Sharmas met then-Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje. Sharma is as of 2021 documented as one of the organization's directors.{{Cite web |title=Directors Detail of Eternal Heart Care Center Private Limited |url=https://www.insiderbiz.in/company-directors/ETERNAL-HEART-CARE-CENTER-PRIVATE-LIMITED |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=www.insiderbiz.in |language=en}}
= Controversy =
Under Sharma’s leadership, the cardiac catheterization lab at Mount Sinai has been implicated in allegations of Medicaid fraud, coaching emergency room patients to say they were having symptoms of a heart attack in order to receive reimbursement for advance scheduled interventional procedures. He has also been accused of inflating procedural numbers to unattainable records by having trainees perform his procedures without supervision. He received $4.8 million from billing for these procedures himself in 2012.{{Cite web |last=Husten |first=Larry |title=What Ails Mt. Sinai Hospital Ails The Entire US Healthcare System |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2014/03/06/what-ails-mt-sinai-hospital-ails-the-entire-us-healthcare-system/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=Forbes |language=en}}{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-06/mount-sinai-cath-lab-takes-nyc-heart-emergencies-by-appointment | title=Mount Sinai Cath Lab Takes NYC Heart Emergencies by Appointment | newspaper=Bloomberg | date=6 March 2014 }}
Publications
= Peer reviewed articles =
According to ResearchGate, Sharma published 165 articles while affiliated with Icahn School of Medicine. According to Scopus, he has 486 publications as of 2022 that were cited 21,734 times across 18,988 documents. His h-index is listed as 60.{{Cite web |title=SSharma, Samin Kumar - Author details |url=https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55356266000 |access-date=2022-03-22 |website=www.scopus.com}}
= Books and book chapters =
Partial list:
- Sharma S, Kini A. Advanced applied interventional cardiology, Cardiol Clin, 1e: Saunders 2010. {{ISBN|9781437718003}}
- Sharma S, Palacios I. Percutaneous approaches to valvular heart disease, Interventional Cardiology Clinics, 1e:Saunders 2012. {{ISBN|9781455738816}}
- Sharma S, Palacios, I (Consulting Editors), Kini A, Mehran R (Editors). Percutaneous Interventions in Women. Interventional Cardiology Clinics. 2012 {{ISBN|9781455744114}}
- Gidwani U, Sharma S, Kini A. Cardiovascular intensive care. Preface. Cardiol Clin 31(4):ix, 2013. {{ISBN|9780323242172}}
- Kini A, Narula J, Sharma S. Practical manual of interventional cardiology. Springer 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-4471-6581-1}}
- Farkouh M, Sharma S, Tomey M, Puskas J, Fuster V. Coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous interventions in stable ischemic heart disease. Hurt’s The Heart 14e, Edited by Fuster V, Harrington R, Narula J, Eapen Z, published by McGraw-Hill 2017. (Chapter 44) {{ISBN|0071843248}}
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