Sripal Bangalore MD, MHA

Dr. Sripal Bangalore is an interventional cardiologist and a Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. He is the Director of Complex Coronary Intervention; the Director of Research for the cardiac catheterization laboratory and the Director of the Cardiovascular Outcomes Group. His clinical expertise is in complex coronary intervention including CTOs, ultra-low volume/zero contrast PCI, and renal denervation. His research interests are in comparative effectiveness studies for cardiovascular diseases, particularly stable ischemic heart disease, acute coronary syndromes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.

Dr. Bangalore has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the American Heart Association, and the industry. He has published over 350 articles in leading national and international journals including the NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, Circulation, and JACC. He is the principal investigator of the ISCHEMIA CKD trial, which is a randomized trial in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and abnormal stress test, carried out in 33 countries and up to 350 clinical sites. The trial is testing the effectiveness of an initial invasive strategy of cath and revascularization with optimal medical therapy versus a conservative strategy of optimal medical therapy alone in patients with chronic kidney disease.

His other areas of interest include the comparative effectiveness of coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) vs. percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), evaluating the efficacy and safety of various stent types in patients undergoing PCI, including patients with diabetes and those in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and comparative effectiveness of drug-eluting stents vs. bare metal stents. He has won a number of awards including the Dr. Gregory Braden Memorial Interventional Cardiology Fellow of the Year Award from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention and the Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology.