Interventional Cardiologist
Structural Heart Valve Specialist
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Houston, HCA Medical Center
Houston, Texas, United States
Dr. Arnav Kumar is an interventional cardiologist and Structural Heart Specialist with TMC Medical Center. He completed a two-year interventional cardiology fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His clinical focus includes high-risk PCIs, imaging and physiology-guided revascularization, and catheterization-based techniques for complex valvular and structural heart conditions.
His research centers around mathematical and computational fluid dynamic modeling to understand vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques. He was honored with The William Parmley Young Author Achievement Award from ACC. Over the last five years, he authored more than 200 manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. Dr. Kumar has held leadership roles in ACC, SCAI, and SCCT. He regularly reviews manuscripts for high-impact journals.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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