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Sunil Vadlakonda Rao

Sunil Vadlakonda Rao MD, FACC, FSCAI

Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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Sunil V. Rao MD FACC FSCAI, is Professor of Medicine at Duke Health System, Section Chief of Cardiology at the Durham VA Medical Center, and an investigator at The Duke Clinical Research Institute. He is also the Editor-in-Chief for Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions and was a former Associate Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Journal Dr. Rao is the Chair of the 2019 Annual Scientific Sessions for the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI).

His main research interests deal with pharmacological and interventional therapies for acute coronary syndromes, quality assessment and improvement in interventional cardiology, and bleeding and blood transfusion complications among patients with heart disease. Dr. Rao has led several prospective clinical trials and has published over 200 papers in the field of interventional cardiology.
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