Chief Nurse Executive

Senior Vice President, Cardiac Services

Mount Sinai Health System

New York, NY

Dr. Beth Oliver is responsible for the practice of nursing across the Health System and collaborates with the senior executive team as well as Chief Nursing Officers throughout Mount Sinai. A nationally recognized cardiovascular leader, Dr. Oliver has fostered and supported evidence based, patient-centered care throughout her career.

As Chief Nursing Executive, her top priorities are ensuring the safety and quality of care for our patients, supporting and advancing the professional development of our nurses, transforming the care we provide around the needs of our patients and communities, and partnering on our transition from volume to value. For more than 28 years, Dr. Oliver has been a transformational cardiac nurse leader at Mount Sinai, most recently serving as Senior Vice President of Cardiac Services for the Health System, in which she led cardiovascular service line strategy and operations for the Health System while also being responsible for ensuring the delivery of quality care to Mount Sinai Heart patients. Dr. Oliver received her MS from Columbia University and her DNP from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Oliver’s recent accolades include the 2025 PACE Changemaker in Healthcare Award and the 2025 Healthcare Leaders of New York (HLNY) Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Award. She was also named the inaugural Edgar M. Cullman, Sr., Chair of the Department of Nursing at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a role through which she continues to advance nursing science, education, and practice in both academic and clinical domains.

Associate Director, Clinical Operations of Cardiac Cath Lab and Advanced Practice Providers

The Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY

Thomas Geramita began his career as a Senior Physician Assistant (PA) in the department of Electrophysiology at the Mount Sinai Hospital in October 2019. During his time as a Senior PA, he began to develop process improvement and improvement initiatives which led to an interest in leadership and an eventual promotion as the Advanced Practice provider (APP) supervisor at Mount Sinai Heart. As the APP supervisor he led quality initiatives, standardized orientation and initiated an APP focused cardiac educational lecture series which resulted in a promotion to an Associate Director of Clinical Operations. As Associate Director, Thomas directs, oversees, and coordinates all administrative and clinical operations for the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Advanced Practice Providers of Mount Sinai Heart.

AMI Program Director

The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Heart

New York, NY

Sherin Abraham, DNP, MS-FNP-BC, AGACNP, brings over 20 years of cardiology experience and is a driving force in advancing cardiovascular care across both clinical and community settings. As the primary investigator of AMI readmissions, she spearheaded the creation and system-wide expansion of a high-impact Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Program, leading transformative improvements in patient outcomes and quality of care. Dr Abraham is a public speaker and a passionate advocate for preventive/functional medicine; she founded CPR Hikers. She received the New York State Senate 2019 Commendation Award for her community work in cardiovascular disease prevention and CPR education for friends and families. Dr. Abraham earned her BSN from CMC Vellore, MSN-FNP from Molloy College, AGACNP from New York University and DNP from Walden University.

The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Heart

New York, NY

Emir Bander is a graduate of the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in Croatia. He has worked in the clinical research space at Mount Sinai Hospital for 9 years before transitioning to the Mount Sinai Cath Lab as a Cardiovascular Technologist. His work includes researching the genetic basis of fibromuscular dysplasia and contributing to the Mount Sinai FAMILIA Project, which aimed to lower cardiovascular disease risk factors for children and their parents in the Harlem area.

Nurse Practitioner

The Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY

Melissa Chang, MSN, FNP- BC started in Mount Sinai Hospital as a Cath Lab Nurse Practitioner in 2020. She received her undergraduate Nursing Degree from the University of Vermont and Family Nurse Practitioner Degree at Lehman College.

Registered Nurse

The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Heart

New York, NY

Nurse Manager, Cath Lab

Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital

New York, NY

Clinical Nurse Manager, Catheterization Laboratory. Neethu James joined The Mount Sinai Fuster Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and EP Laboratory in September 2023 as Assistant Nurse Manager. She transitioned to her current role as nurse manager in January 2024.

Clinical Director

Structural Heart Program

The Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY

Hyo Jin Kang, MSN, AGNP-C, is Clinical Director of the Structural Heart Program at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Jin has started her nursing career in 2008 at Mount Sinai and joined Cath lab in 2012 as cath lab nurse and also worked as TAVR nurse. She then became a nurse practitioner and worked briefly as Cath Lab NP prior to transitioning to her role in TAVR program. Under her leadership, Mount Sinai TAVR program was the 1st in NYC to receive ACC TAVR Certification and recently was awarded with the ACC/STS TVT-Registry 3-star recognition in 2022 for exceptional outcomes.

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.

Registered Nurse

The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Heart

New York, NY

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Nurse Practitioner

The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Heart

New York, NY

Derek is a Nurse Practitioner specializing in interventional cardiology, bringing extensive experience from performing and assisting in thousands of complex cardiac catheterization procedures. Passionate about digital transformation, he actively contributes to the development and implementation of innovative healthcare technologies, particularly AI-driven solutions aimed at optimizing clinical workflows and enhancing patient outcomes. His work bridges clinical excellence and technological innovation, empowering clinicians to deliver more efficient, data-driven, and patient-centered care.

Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular PA

The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Heart

New York, NY

Patient Care Associate

The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Heart

New York, NY

Surujpaul Premraj, originally from Guyana, South Africa, has been serving at Mount Sinai Hospital for the past 23 years. Paul, as he is known in the Cath Lab, is currently a Patient Care Associate and resides in Queens, New York.

Staff RN

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Ryan Santiago, RN is a graduate of the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing in New York. He has been working in the Mount Sinai Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Lab for 10 years, and in the intensive care unit 7 years prior.

Assistant Director of Endovascular Interventions Program

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology

The Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY

Dr. Raman Sharma is the Assistant Director of Endovascular Intervention Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai Heart, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute. Dr. Sharma earned his medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he also completed his General Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship in the following years. Dr. Sharma continued his advanced training in Intervention Cardiology, where he served as the Chief Fellow. He finished his training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with an additional advanced fellowship in Endovascular Interventions.

Dr. Sharma is both an Interventional and Endovascular Cardiologist with specialized focuses in complex percutaneous coronary interventions and peripheral arterial and venous disease, particularly with aortoiliac, lower extremity, carotid and renal revascularization. He is actively involved in clinical research and has numerous co-authored peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, book chapters, in addition to national and international conference presentations. He is interested in outcomes research, particularly the role of antiplatelet and direct oral anticoagulants in improving outcomes for peripheral artery revascularization.

Director, Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Clinical Institute

Director, Interventional Cardiology, Mount Sinai Health System

President, Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital Network

Anandi Lal Sharma Professor of Medicine, Cardiology

The Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY

Dr. Samin K. Sharma is the Director, Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Clinical Institute, Director of Interventional Cardiology at The Mount Sinai Health System, the President of the Mount Sinai Heart Network and The Anandi Lal Sharma Professor of Medicine in Cardiology. He is a renowned interventional cardiology expert, well known for performing high-risk complex coronary interventions (more than 1,500 interventions per year) with an extremely high success rate (greater than 99 percent) while achieving an extremely low complication rate (less than 0.2 percent major complication).

He has received the prestigious two-star designation (significantly lower than expected mortality) numerous times by the New York State Department of Health. Under Dr. Sharma’s leadership, The Mount Sinai Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory has become one of the safest and busiest centers in New York, providing state-of-the-art cardiac and interventional care for all types of simple and complex heart patients. In addition to coronary interventions, Dr. Sharma also specializes in TAVR and MitraClip procedures. He has been dubbed “master of Rotablator” and is regularly featured on national and local TV and in newspapers & magazines.

Senior Data Analyst

The Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY

Andriy is a senior data analyst at the Mount Sinai Hospital cardiac cath lab. Originally from an engineering background, he was brought on board in early 2019 to help with the multitude of digital educational and clinical initiatives. He was a key member in the process to deploy STEMIcathAID across multiple sites as well as the newer Sofiya AI patient calling initiative.

Nurse Practitioner

The Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY

Shira Wender, Nurse Practitioner and NP for the Director of Structural Heart at Mount Sinai (Dr. Sahil Khera), specializing in transcatheter valve therapies and structural heart procedures.