Samin Sharma

Samin K. Sharma (born May 28, 1955) is an American philanthropist of Indian descent and an interventional cardiologist[1][2] who co-founded the Eternal Heart Care Centre and Research Institute in Jaipur (EHCC).

As of 2021, he is Senior Vice-President, Operations & Quality at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York[4] and runs the Dr. Samin K. Sharma Family Foundation Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.

[14]  He has published extensively on the procedure[15] 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.

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.

[23] 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.