Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
Interventional Director, Structural Heart Disease
Mount Sinai Health System
The Mount Sinai Hospital & Mount Sinai Health System
New York, NY

Annapoorna Kini, MD, MRCP, FACC is an endowed Zena and Michael A Wiener Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Program Director of Interventional Cardiology Fellowship and Director of Structural Heart Intervention Program. Dr. Kini is an international leader in the field of percutaneous coronary intervention and heart valve therapy.

Dr. Kini is internationally acclaimed for her special expertise in performing complex and high-risk interventional cases especially in chronic total occlusion, calcific and bifurcation lesions. She has an extensive experience with the techniques of mitral, aortic balloon valvuloplasty. She has been among the first interventionalist to use TAVR implantation and performs MitralClip procedures.

Dr. Kini is a high-volume operator, with an extremely low complication rate of less than 0.3 percent; an official report from The Department of Health recognized Dr. Kini as the safest operator among 350 other physicians in the state of New York numerous times.

She is the recipient of 2011 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Physician of the year award in 2014 by the Mount Sinai Hospital nurses. Excellence in Medicine Award by the National Association of Physicians of India (AAPI) in July 2016. She received the prestigious, Ellis Island Medal of Honor in May 2017, which is the highest award given to any immigrant civilian. She is the recipient of AHA “The Heart of Gold Award”, June 2018 and Jacobi Medallion Award 2019 for Breakthroughs in Clinical Care.