Parallax by Ankur Kalra
121 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings‘Parallax’ (/ˈparəlaks/)-noun: the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions. Join Ankur Kalra, MD as he shows you a different side to cardiovascular care, management and science. Listen to Ankur’s conversations with legendary cardiologists, critical reviews of key congresses and late-breaking trials, and concise summaries. Published every second Monday of the month, this is your fix of reliable updates on all things cardiology by someone from a non-traditional background, who is always trying to look at it from new angles! Dear cardiologists, we want to make this podcast about you, and for you! Please email us critical thoughts, comments and questions for Ankur at [email protected].
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EP 67: Guidelines, Inequality and Moving the Needle with Dr Devesh Rai and Dr Martha Gulati
April 11, 2022 14:33 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB“There is a significant disparity in the inclusion of women on all national guideline committees, in addition to serving as a chair of cardiology guidelines. Further advocacy is required to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in our cardiology guidelines globally.” Rai D, et al. JAHA. 22 Why are we talking about inclusion, diversity, and equity? Recent years have seen many studies on the inequalities in representation of women in cardiology and yet the needle has not been moved as much ...
EP 66: Goal Setting, Tenure Track & Positive Mindset with Dr Nadia Sutton
March 28, 2022 09:03 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBHow can you navigate challenges whilst keeping an eye on your goals and your mission? This week’s guest on Parallax is Dr Nadia Sutton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Interventional Cardiology at University of Michigan. In this engaging and constructive episode, Nadia recalls her journey to medicine and reflects on the life decisions she had to make along the way: What is the career path that will get us closer to ...
EP 65: Industry Pathway ,“Who” Luck, and Thinking Big with Dr Shon Chakrabarti
March 14, 2022 10:46 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBChemical engineering seemed like a sensible choice for Shon who is coming from a family of engineers. At the age of 18 the trajectory of his path took a turn when he blindly sent out 30 resumes and received one offer from a cardiologist to work in his lab. Looking back, he realizes that this was the first time “who” luck shaped his career in medicine. This week’s guest on Parallax is Dr Shon Chakrabarti, Vice President Medical Affairs at Inari Medical. In this rich and candid episode, Dr Ch...
EP 64: Patient Advocate, CHD Care and the Mission of Team Uncle Joe with Joe Valente
February 28, 2022 13:35 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBJoe’s journey as a patient with congenital heart disease set him on a route of becoming a professional patient advocate. Since 2016, his non-profit organisation, Team Uncle Joe is helping patients and families to better understand and help navigate CHD. Parallax host Dr Ankur Kalra invites Joe Valente, a Board-Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA) and Co-Founder of Team Uncle Joe, to talk about his mission and practical considerations involving CHD care both from a patient and a healthcare provi...
EP 63: Innovation, Research, and the Concept of Hemorrhagic MI with Dr Rohan Dharmakumar
February 14, 2022 13:33 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBIn 2005, the concept of hemorrhagic MI was a preformed idea. In 2022, after years of collaboration, technical advances and research, the findings on large MI size have the potential to fundamentally improve the care of patients suffering from heart attacks. In this week’s Parallax podcast, Dr Ankur Kalra welcomes Dr Rohan Dharmakumar, Executive Director of the Krannert Cardiovascular Research Center at IU School of Medicine, to talk about his research on hemorrhagic myocardial infarction (MI...
EP 62: Bullying, Harassment and Jealousy at Workplace with Dr Srihari S Naidu
January 31, 2022 13:15 - 43 minutes - 40 MB"There is a high global prevalence of hostile work environment in cardiology, including discrimination, emotional harassment, and sexual harassment.” Sharma G. et al. JACC 2021. Dr Naidu was at the beginning of his career when, having experienced micro-aggression, his chairman shared an insight that still shapes the way he thinks about addressing professional jealousy and bullying: “Don’t let people bring you down, you just keep working and lift them up.” In this week's Parallax, Dr Ankur K...
EP 61: The Year 2021 in Review with Dr Sukh Nijjer — Top Trials in Heart Failure and Cardiac Surgery
January 17, 2022 09:43 - 53 minutes - 49 MBIn the second part of Parallax’s review of 2021, Dr Sukh Nijjer, Interventional Cardiologist from Imperial College London, and Dr Ankur Kalra discuss key advances in the field of heart failure and cardiac surgery. SGLT2 inhibitors are proving to be the blockbuster drug of this decade: Sukh summarises and compares the learnings from DAPA-HF, Emperor-Reduced, and Emperor-Preserved. Next, Sukh highlights the data from SOLOIST-WHF that showed sotagliflozin to have beneficial effects on CV outcom...
EP 60: The Year 2021 in Review with Dr Sukh Nijjer – Part 1
December 27, 2021 06:40 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBIn the last Parallax episode of the year, Dr Ankur Kalra welcomed back Dr Sukh Nijjer, Interventional Cardiologist from Imperial College London, to review the most impactful events and advances in cardiology from 2021. This year we had a number of studies that helped clarify our understanding of the world of antiplatelets: First, Ankur and Sukh discuss the take-home messages from HOST-EXAM, a Korean study presented at ACC 2021. They discuss their clinical experiences within the UK and US set...
Parallax AHA Edition: 3 Trials that will change your practice with Dr Amit Khera
December 06, 2021 12:38 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this AHA 2021 episode of Parallax, Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr Amit Khera, Professor and Director of Preventive Cardiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas and Vice Chair of the Scientific Sessions. For this week’s show, Dr Khera selected three thought-provoking late-breaking trials that will inform or change clinical practice. Ankur and Amit discuss how the AVATAR trial will influence guidelines, and whether these findings could be translated to TAVR. Most importantly, they dis...
Parallax TCT Edition: 3 Trials that will change your practice with Prof Mamas Mamas
November 15, 2021 13:30 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBIn this TCT 2021 episode of Parallax, Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Prof Mamas Mamas, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM), Professor of Cardiology at Keele University and Senior Clinical Editor of TCTmd. Ankur invites Mamas to talk about the clinical relevance of some of the top studies presented at TCT 2021. Mamas summarises the studies, some of their salient features and the findings. Ankur and Mamas discuss the strategies they curr...
EP 57: Academic Success, Decision-making & Pragmatic Approach with Dr. Ambarish Pandey
November 03, 2021 12:18 - 45 minutes - 42 MBDr. Pandey, a recipient of multiple awards, thinks about himself as a person driven by curiosity rather than passion. He believes that his interest in solving problems helped him to navigate successes and failures as an early-career researcher. In celebration of Diwali, Dr. Ankur Kalra sat down with Dr. Ambarish Pandey, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, to talk about his career path and the questions that shaped his decision-making over the years. ...
Parallax HFSA Edition: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging with Dr Nancy M. Albert
October 11, 2021 12:58 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBThis week’s Parallax in collaboration with the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) explores the many ways organisations can embrace the needs of a diverse community and create a culture that can react to the realities of patientcare. Host Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr Nancy M. Albert, Immediate Past President of HFSA and Associate Chief Nursing Officer of the Office of Research and Innovation at the Cleveland Clinic. In this episode, Dr Albert reflects on the society’s work to cater to t...
EP 55: 5 Interventional trials that will change your practice: Review of ESC 21 – Dr Mirvat Alasnag
September 28, 2021 14:03 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBIn the second ESC 2021 episode of Parallax, Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr. Mirvat Alasnag, interventional Cardiologist and Director of Catheterization Laboratory at the King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital (KFAFH) in Saudi Arabia. Dr Alasnag was a programme committee member at this year’s ESC and regional PI of one of the late-breaking trials presented. Ankur invites Mirvat to review the interventional cardiology highlights of the congress. Mirvat summarises the background and latest evidence fro...
EP 54: 5 Trials that will change your practice: Review of ESC 21 with Dr Purvi Parwani
September 06, 2021 08:07 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBIn this week’s episode Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr. Purvi Parwani, Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Disease Clinic and Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University Medical Center. In this special ESC 2021 edition of Parallax, Ankur asks Purvi to review the highlights of the congress. Purvi summarises the design and findings of the trials and their importance in the treatment of patients. Ankur and Purvi discuss how the novel data presented at ESC will inform their practice. Trials covere...
EP 53: Belonging, Sparkplug & Purpose with Dr. Nasrien E. Ibrahim
August 23, 2021 14:26 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB“It was this sense of finally belonging somewhere that sparked my journey to self-love.” -Nasrien E. Ibrahim, Sparkplug Being an advanced heart failure and transplant specialist compelled Dr. Ibrahim to look at life from a different perspective: “With transplants you are seeing the extremes of life and death.” Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr Nasrien Ezzeldin Ibrahim, Director of Heart Failure Clinical Research at Inova Heart and Vascular Institute and the writer of SPARKPLUG: The Roadmap to Co...
Parallax HFSA Edition: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging with Robert Mentz & Anuradha Lala
July 19, 2021 16:18 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBHow can we change the language of medicine to set up patients for success? This was one of the questions of Dr Lala when she met a young father with acute heart failure. After talking with him, she replaced the word failure with function. This seemingly small change created a real difference for the patient. How can we create real understanding through words? How can scientific publishing aid diversity, equity and inclusion? This week’s episode starts a series in collaboration with the Heart...
EP 51: Industry Pathway, Misconceptions & Perspectives with Dr Sameer Bansilal
July 05, 2021 08:39 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBDr. Bansilal was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai when he decided to seek out an alternative pathway to make an impact on patients’ lives. Dr. Ankur Kalra’s guest this week is Dr. Sameer Bansilal, Executive Director of U.S Medical Affairs of Cardiovascular and Renal at Bayer Pharmaceutical. After years with the TIMI Study Group, Sameer made the decision to leave academic medicine to join the pharmaceutical industry. He was not alone with this...
EP 50: Conversation with Dr Deepak L Bhatt: Physician, Researcher, & Mentor
June 19, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBEarly in his career, Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt was considering becoming a basic science researcher. After an exchange with one of his mentors about doing science for the science’s sake, he had a self-realisation: He wanted his work to have a direct impact on patient care. In the 50th episode of Parallax, Dr. Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt leading physician, researcher, lecturer, and educator who has authored or co-authored over 1650 publications and was recipient of the ACC’s Distingui...
EP 49: Workplace Hostility, Responsibility & Solutions with Dr Garima Sharma
June 07, 2021 08:51 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBThe American College of Cardiology surveyed cardiologists across the globe to have a more detailed understanding on the impact of hostility, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. Of almost 6000 cardiologists who took part in the survey 44% reported hostile work environment. Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest this week is Dr Garima Sharma, Director of CardioObstetrics and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University as well as an investigator of the “Global Prevalence and I...
EP 48: Supporting India During COVID: Prof Madhav Swaminathan, Duke Health and ASE Humanitarian Aid
May 17, 2021 08:34 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB"A failure to finish is a failure to start" In this week's latest podcast episode, host, Ankur Kalra, MD, meets guest Prof Madhav Swaminathan (Duke University Health System, NC, US) to discuss how he has orchestrated a major humanitarian effort, in association with Duke University Health and The American Society of Echocardiography, to supply ventilation equipment and PPE to hospitals and NGOs during the current COVID-19 crisis in New Delhi, India. Hear them discuss the challenges and learn...
CardioNerds Meets Parallax: An Examined Life with Dr Ankur Kalra, Cardiologist, Writer & Podcaster
May 03, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBOver the past two years, Parallax listeners have gotten to know Dr Ankur Kalra through his conversations with our guests. In this episode, we turned the tables and invited CardioNerds co-founder Dr Amit Goyal to reintroduce Dr Ankur Kalra interventional cardiologist, researcher, writer, and the host of this podcast. In this candid and spiritual conversation Amit and Ankur take a journey through former episodes of Parallax and Ankur’s writings to explore what it takes to strive for a deeper k...
EP 46: Dr Eric Adler on Mission, Mentorship & Synergy Between Research & Patient Care
April 19, 2021 12:31 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBAccording to Dr Eric Adler, at the core of all impactful research is a powerful narrative that makes us reflect on the human condition. In 2006, when the ground-breaking discovery was made that specialized cells can be turned into stem cells, Dr Eric Adler was thinking about how he could create a synergy between his passion for clinical work and his determination to ask compelling questions in research. Dr Adler embarked on this question when a patient died unexpectedly and Dr Stacey Clegg, a...
EP 46 Dr Eric Adler on Mission, Mentorship & Synergy Between Research & Patient Care
April 19, 2021 12:31 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBAccording to Dr Eric Adler, at the core of all impactful research is a powerful narrative that makes us reflect on the human condition. In 2006, when the ground-breaking discovery was made that specialized cells can be turned into stem cells, Dr Eric Adler was thinking about how he could create a synergy between his passion for clinical work and his determination to ask compelling questions in research. Dr Adler embarked on this question when a patient died unexpectedly and Dr Stacey Clegg, a...
EP 45: The Journey of Dr Alin Gragossian, Physician, Heart Transplant Recipient & Advocate
April 05, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBTwo and a half weeks before her urgent orthotopic transplantation, Alin led the life of a busy emergency medicine resident. The warning signs of her dilated cardiomyopathy were drowned out by the demands of a 24-hour shift at her critical care unit. She recalls being confused while she was transferred to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and was signed up for the organ transplant list. After the heart transplant, while coming to terms with her condition, she decided not to let t...
EP 44: Refugee, Dishwasher, Cardiologist, Humanitarian: The Journey of Dr Heval Kelli
March 22, 2021 14:29 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBDr Heval Kelli will never forget when during his third year as a medical student, a man kept coming to the clinic complaining about being hungry. The team was checking for underlying health issues, when one of Dr Kelli’s attendings took his history and realised that this patient was not able to get access to food. Dr Kelli came away from this episode with a lesson that still shapes him as a doctor: “If you treat everyone as you want your family to be treated, you will do well.” Ankur Kalra’...
EP 43: Dr Nishtha Sodhi on Mentorship, Innovation and Inclusivity
March 08, 2021 10:44 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBDr Sodhi remembers the first time she stepped into a Cath lab and found her passion. Years later she was preparing to do a complex TAVR procedure with her colleagues when suddenly they all recognised the significance of four women coming together in the lab. The photo of the four of them was shared widely on social media. For Dr Sodhi it became a symbol of what great mentorship can achieve, and for many others it is a beacon of hope. Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr Nishtha Sodhi structural and...
EP42: Dr Hafiza Khan on Trust, Patient Outreach and Instagram
February 22, 2021 13:56 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBIn one of her many posts on Instagram, we can see Dr Hafiza Khan holding a table summarising her reactogenicity after her second COVID shot. In the frame next to her is her son listing his own reactions. Ankur’s guest is Dr Hafiza Khan, Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Baylor Scott & White Arrhythmia Management in Dallas. One of only 9 women in her field in Texas, she started to think about her legacy and the ways she can increase her impact and give back to her colleagues and patients as well...
EP 42: Dr Hafiza Khan on Trust, Patient Outreach and Instagram
February 22, 2021 13:56 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBIn one of her many posts on Instagram, we can see Dr Hafiza Khan holding a table summarising her reactogenicity after her second COVID shot. In the frame next to her is her son listing his own reactions. Ankur’s guest is Dr Hafiza Khan, Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Baylor Scott & White Arrhythmia Management in Dallas. One of only 9 women in her field in Texas, she started to think about her legacy and the ways she can increase her impact and give back to her colleagues and patients as well...
EP 41: Mallory Abbott on Ebstein’s Anomaly, Self-Care & the Power of Gratitude
February 08, 2021 10:45 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBMallory was not prepared when she underwent her first heart surgery in seventh grade: She was hoping to regain her stamina, instead she experienced what she describes as a loss of self. Mallory was born with a rare heart disease called a Ebstein’s anomaly. In this powerful episode, Mallory Abbott recounts how she learnt to draw strength from her condition: She talks candidly about the realities of going into heart failure at age 25 and the moment when she decided to embrace herself. Ankur ask...
EP 40: Mentorship, Reflection & the Journey of Mandeep R Mehra
January 25, 2021 09:30 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBDr Mehra does not frame his experiences as failures or successes; he looks at all events with one question in mind: What can I learn from this? In this week’s episode Ankur’s guest is Dr Mandeep R Mehra, Medical Director of Brigham Heart and Vascular Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr Mehra’s professional journey started in the Sevagaram Ashram in India where medicine and the Gandhian way of life were both instilled in him. His career in the US was prompted by a qu...
EP 39: The year 2020 in review with Sukh Nijjer
January 11, 2021 10:51 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBIn the first Parallax episode of 2021, Ankur welcomed back Sukh Nijjer from Imperial College London to review the most impactful events and advances in cardiology from 2020. In the first part of the episode, Ankur and Sukh focus on the mechanism of the coronavirus and its effects on the heart including clotting abnormality and troponin elevation. They discuss their clinical experiences and observations within the UK and US settings in light of the latest data. Sukh offers practical tips on...
EP 38: Martin B Leon on CRF, Mentorship and the Lessons of 2020
December 16, 2020 12:42 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBIn the late 1980s, shortly after he left the NIH, Dr Martin B Leon founded the non-profit organisation, Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). At the beginning, CRF had almost no funding or people, but it had a concept of bringing together an academic community to follow the device development cycle from inception to inclusion. Today, CFR is a global entity, and its events are attended by hundreds of physicians/researchers worldwide. In the Season 2 finale, Ankur Kalra is joined by the l...
EP37: Lindsay’s Law: From Ballerina to Health Advocate
December 09, 2020 15:06 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBThis week Parallax welcomed its first non-physician/researcher guest: health advocate Lindsay Davis. Lindsay, ballerina with ambitions to study at Julliard, was experiencing the symptoms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) from her early teens, but she had not been diagnosed until she was 17. Years later, after her agents asked her to hide her heart condition when on film sets, she felt compelled to create a platform where she can share her experience and support others living with HCM. In...
EP 37: Lindsay’s Law: From Ballerina to Health Advocate
December 09, 2020 15:06 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBThis week Parallax welcomed its first non-physician/researcher guest: health advocate Lindsay Davis. Lindsay, ballerina with ambitions to study at Julliard, was experiencing the symptoms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) from her early teens, but she had not been diagnosed until she was 17. Years later, after her agents asked her to hide her heart condition when on film sets, she felt compelled to create a platform where she can share her experience and support others living with HCM. In...
WiC, Mentorship and Diversity in Academic Publishing with Drs Erin D Michos & Danielle Belardo
November 16, 2020 15:56 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBIn 2020, women still only represent 16% of editorial boards1. US Cardiology Review journal, has recently seen a 7-fold increase in female editorial board members in response to journal-based strategic initiatives and the stellar work of USC editorial board leadership, Ankur Kalra (Editor in Chief) and Bill Gogas (Deputy Editor in Chief), who were keen to drive this change. With thanks to Dr Anastasia Mihailidou’s tenure as a new board member and her suggested nominees, ten new female board ...
EP 35: C Mike Gibson on Art, Medicine and Fatherhood
October 26, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBOne of the first things painted by the young Mike Gibson, today Professor of Medicine at Harvard, researcher and interventional cardiologist, was a cloud. Years later while painting angiograms Dr Gibson came up with the idea of myocardial blush: The blush was that cloud of dye in the heart muscle. In this episode Mike opens up about his childhood in Stilwell, Oklahoma. Ankur and Mike discuss how the inductive quality of art can complement the deductive principles of science. Mike recalls earl...
EP 34: Toolbox of an Analyst with Suzanne J Baron
September 16, 2020 13:33 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBIn this week’s episode Ankur Kalra asks Dr Suzanne J Baron, Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center: How do we measure the value of a novel technology? During her interventional cardiology fellowship, Dr Baron became fascinated by the implementation of novel technologies. She earned her degree in Clinical Epidemiology and spent a year working at the FDA’s Device Evaluation unit. In 2019 Dr Baron presented the results of her late-breaking trial, CO...
EP 33: Chuck Simonton on Leadership, Innovations and Industry
September 01, 2020 12:41 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBIn this week’s Parallax, host Ankur Kalra is joined by Charles (Chuck) Simonton, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Abiomed. Chuck talks about how his father’s leadership and service as a Methodist minister inspired him to become a doctor. He recalls the dawn of interventional cardiology: the birth of angioplasty and stenting. Drawing from his experiences as a trialist who worked with some of the most influential minds, he offers practical tips to young doctors. Finally, Ankur asks C...
EP 32: Diagnosing and treating sexism in cardiology with Martha Gulati
August 03, 2020 09:45 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBMartha Gulati, Professor of Medicine and the Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona joins Ankur Kalra to continue the important conversation on how the cardiovascular community can stand up against sexism. After the #MedBikini campaign provoked by a misogynistic study that scrutinized female doctors’ social media posts, this week’s episode is about creating a safer environment for female healthcare professionals. Martha shares her leadership experiences as the chief and only woma...
EP 31: Mending the broken house of cardiology with Roxana Mehran
July 20, 2020 08:01 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week’s guest, Prof Roxana Mehran, Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Founding Director of Women as One, is a phenomenon in interventional cardiology. Her pioneering work as clinician, trialist and advocate is well known within the community. In this episode we learn what makes Roxana tick and what were the odds she had to defy as an immigrant from Iran to fulfil her ‘impossible dream’. The charity organisation, Women as One is an agent for women and men to be part of a medicine tha...
30: Laura Mauri on career decisions, mentorship and advancing medicine
June 24, 2020 13:58 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week’s guest is Dr Laura Mauri who became Vice President of Global Clinical Research and Analytics at Medtronic in 2018 after an illustrious career in academic medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr Kalra asks Dr Mauri about early influences and her traineeship with legendary interventionalists, the late Donald Baim and Richard Kuntz. Dr Mauri talks openly about her decision-making process and the importance of selecting your priorities and committing to...
29: Addressing Institutionalized Racism in Healthcare
May 20, 2020 11:12 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBIn the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement, a group of internal medicine residents posed a question: What can we do about racial disparity within our institution? Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Health Equity Committee decided to confront the status quo by asking: How is racism on a structural level present within our walls? Ankur Kalra’s guests Michelle Morse (Founding Co-Director of EqualHealth and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School) and Lauren Eberly (Cardiology Fell...
28: Unified pathways for treating structural heart disease: Anmar Kanaa’N & Joseph Lahorra
May 11, 2020 11:05 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBHeart surgery is not the best option for every patient suffering from structural heart disease. This was recognized by interventional cardiologist Anmar Kanaa’N and cardiac surgeon Joseph Lahorra who decided to unify their skillsets and bring the Structural Heart Program to life. Their vision was to offer patients with heart valve diseases all available options at Cleveland Clinic’s Akron General. In this week’s Parallax, Dr Kanaa’N, the director of the program, and Dr Lahorra, chairman of ...
27: The new reality of CVD care with Grant W Reed, Director of the Cleveland Clinic’s STEMI program
May 04, 2020 08:44 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBThe State of Ohio reported its first coronavirus cases on March 9. Prior to that, on February 28, the Cleveland Clinic announced that they are prepared to open 1,000 additional hospital beds if needed. Ohio was one of the states to follow recommendations and intervene quickly. Ankur Kalra asks Grant W Reed, Director of the Cleveland Clinic’s STEMI program, to reflect on the actions they took and the challenges of delaying cardiovascular procedures in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Dr ...
26: Stories to tell: Lisa Rosenbaum's journey to medical journalism at NEJM
April 27, 2020 10:29 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBThis week Ankur Kalra talks with Lisa Rosenbaum, national correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine and cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Lisa Rosenbaum has been writing extensively about the human face of medicine. Her articles have been widely circulated by publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker and The New England Journal of Medicine. In this edition of Parallax Dr Kalra asked Dr Rosenbaum about the influences that shaped her choices as a writer an...
25: Portrait of a clinician-scientist during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Jag Singh MD PhD
April 20, 2020 08:49 - 43 minutes - 40 MBA week after Jag Singh had tested positive for COVID-19, he became a patient in his hospital’s intensive care unit. This week he joins Ankur Kalra, MD to tell us about his journey as a clinician-scientist. Jagmeet P Singh, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a renowned Clinical Trialist, and the past Clinical Chief of Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital joins Ankur Kalra for a deep conversation about his journey across three continents. Dr Singh talks about the impor...
24: COVID-19 lessons and learnings from Italy with Prof Michele Senni
March 30, 2020 15:22 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB“It’s a tsunami not just a wave. The worst tsunami you can imagine” Prof Michele Senni is Director of Cardiology at Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo Italy. He contracted COVID-19 himself and in this latest podcast he meets with Ankur Kalra, MD to discuss his personal experience in dealing with patients and COVID-19 in Europe’s outbreak epicentre. Hear them discuss the burden on healthcare, patient selection, the importance of testing and PPE and how COVID has resulted in a reduction of...
23: COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease
March 24, 2020 17:08 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB“We are at war with a pandemic and the enemy is not each other, it’s the virus.” In this latest episode, Ankur Kalra, MD meets with Andrew Sauer, MD, co-author of upcoming paper in US Cardiology Review on COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease that provides a concise and current summary of cardiovascular complications from COVID-19. Hear them discuss the latest issues surrounding the pandemic, the known cardiac implications and the rapidly emerging data. Submit your question to Ankur via...
22: COVID-19 lessons and learnings from South East Asia with Bill Gogas
March 19, 2020 09:27 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBIn these unprecedented times, we provide an early release episode to gain insight on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic from Deputy Editor in Chief of US Cardiology Review, a BDG interventional cardiologist, Bill Gogas, MD, PhD practising in East Asia. Hear Bill’s take on how East Asia responded to and successfully managed the pandemic and how they are now seeing a significant reduction in cases outside the epicentre. Hear how the strategy resulted in only 93 patients in Bill’s city of Nanj...
21: The “interventional intensivist” with Ann Gage
March 09, 2020 09:04 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBWe can count on our fingertips how many “interventional intensivist” exist in the US. In this episode Ankur Kalra, MD meets with Dr Ann Gage, Cleveland Clinic’s first “interventional intensivist”. She discusses her unique skill set, what it means to be an interventionalist in the cath lab but also an expert in cardiovascular intensive care and advocates why such a unique skill set and critical care training are required in today’s modern medicine. Submit your question to Ankur via: podca...