Krishna Patel MD

Dr. Krishna Patel is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of Cardiac PET service at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. She also serves as core faculty within the Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute.

Dr. Patel completed her medical school at N.H.L Municipal Medical College in Gujarat, India, before moving to the US for further training. She completed her internal medicine residency at the Cleveland Clinic, a combined T32-cardiovascular outcomes research and clinical cardiology fellowship at Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and advanced cardiovascular imaging training at Mid-America Heart Institute and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital before joining Mount Sinai as faculty.

Dr. Patel has expertise in advanced multimodality CV imaging and outcomes research. Her clinical interests include women’s heart health, geriatric cardiology, angina with non-obstructive coronary disease or microvascular angina, and cardiovascular prevention. Dr. Patel is a member of the board of directors of the Cardiovascular Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, the professional home for nuclear medicine doctors worldwide. She was selected and has graduated from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Leadership Development Program.