Volume 25 - Issue 5 - May 2017

Morton Kern, MD
Clinical Editor; Chief of Medicine, 
Long Beach Veterans 
Administration Health Care 
System, Long Beach, California; 
Associate Chief Cardiology, 
Professor of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, California
mortonkern2007@gmail.com

Fadi Saab, MD, J. A. Mustapha, MD Metro Health University of Michigan Health, Wyoming, Michigan

Thomas E. Waggoner, DO¹, and Jon C. George, MD^2
1Tucson Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
²Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health University of Michigan Health, Wyoming, Michigan.

Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute (MCVI) at Baptist Health South Florida, founded by Dr. Barry T. Katzen in 1987, recently underwent an expansion that added 60,000 square feet of new space and included 40,000 square feet of renovations, nearly doubling the size of the Institute in order to accommodate a growing number of patients and procedures. Seeking to design interventional suites of the future, two of the new endovascular suites have glass walls and a video system that allow people to sit in a theater-style chair outside of the suite and control what they are watching using an iPad. Viewers from different disciplines or in training can have their own unique user interface that allows them to pick and choose which parts of the procedure they want to watch, all with communication with the suites.

Cath Lab Digest talks with Barry T. Katzen, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Executive of Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida, about the expansion and his vision for the Institute.

Cath Lab Digest talks with:

Syed Gilani, MD, Director, Peripheral Artery Disease Intervention, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory; Ken Fujise, MD, FACC, FACP, FAHA, FSCAI, Director, Division of Cardiology, Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program; Umamahesh Rangasetty, MD, Assistant Professor Internal Medicine, Assistant Director Catheterization Laboratory; Wissam Khalife, MD, FACC, Director of Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant and LVAD Program; Malinda Roque, RN, MSN, CVRN-BC, Cath/EP Nurse Manager; and Luisa Anderson, RN, MSN, CVRN-BC, Director, Cardiology Services, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

Neelima Katukuri, MD, Moses Osoro, MD, Gayathri Baljepally, MD, Raj Baljepally, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tennessee