June 19, 2009
Cardiology Grand Round
invitation
Brooklyn New York
Jacob Shani, MD

Jacob Shani, MD
Chair, Cardiac Institute
Director, Division of Cardiology

Dr. Shani has achieved an international reputation for his innovative abilities in cardiac catheterization. He performed the first atherectomy in New York State in 1991; invented an angled catheter in 1992; achieved the first filmless cath lab in the country in 1996; invented a wrist clamp to aid in radial artery catheterization; and performed the first percutaneous transmyocardial revascularization in New York State in 1997. Under his leadership, Maimonides Medical Center has achieved the best patient outcomes for angioplasty according to the most recently published data from the New York State Department of Health among all New York City hospitals.

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