Kartik

Mani

MBBS

As the son of a heart surgeon, I always thought that open heart surgery was the ultimate tool to treat patients with advanced heart disease. Training in cardiology taught me that in a majority of patients, this is true. As someone who has spent the last decade caring for our nation’s heroes at the VA, I was inspired to approach that minority of patients that were too sick for open heart surgery and less likely to recover if untreated. Whether opening up vessels that have been blocked up for years or developing novel strategies to restore heart muscle blood flow, my practice focuses on following President Kennedy’s exhortation to choose to go to the moon: “to do so, not because they are easy, but because they are hard and because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one we’re willing to accept. One we are unwilling to postpone.”