George Dangas, MD, PhD, MSCAI, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), and Surgery, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will serve as SCAI President for the 2023-2024 term. He is also Director of Cardiovascular Innovation at the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute at Icahn Mount Sinai and Chief of Cardiology at Mount Sinai Queens, and the first Mount Sinai cardiologist to hold this position.
George Dangas, MD, PhD, MSCAI, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), and Surgery, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will serve as SCAI President for the 2023-2024 term. He is also Director of Cardiovascular Innovation at the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute at Icahn Mount Sinai and Chief of Cardiology at Mount Sinai Queens, and the first Mount Sinai cardiologist to hold this position.
The 3-year results show that low-surgical-risk patients undergoing aortic valve replacement continue to show lower rates of all-cause mortality and disabling stroke with TAVR compared with surgery.