Surgical Director, Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Bapat is also an assistant professor of surgery at CUMC. Dr. Bapat specializes in the minimally invasive and percutaneous treatment of structural heart disease with a focus on mitral and tricuspid therapies. Dr. Bapat did a fellowship program at Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and joined CUMC in 2017 from Guys and St. Thomas’ hospital, London.
Dr Vinayak Bapat is on the Editorial Board of European Cardiology Review.
Honors:
European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Techno-College Award for Innovation, 2013
Innovation and Patents:
2014: Patent on new valve design feature to facilitate future valve-in-valve procedure
2013: Aortic valve-in-valve app (>20,000 downloads in 92 countries)
2013: Mitral valve-in-valve app (>10,000 downloads in 86 countries)
2009: TransAortic (Tao) approach for TAVI
Current Appointments:
May 2017–present: Associate professor, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Medical Center , New York, USA
September 2015–present: Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kings College London & Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
October 2007–present: Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Guys and St. Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
February 2014–present: Lead, Transcatheter Mitral Valve programme, Guys and St. Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
