Sameer Mehta

Sameer Mehta, M.D., FACC, MBA, is a U.S. interventional cardiologist and activist in the use of Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary angioplasty for all patients presenting with STEMI (ST- elevation myocardial infarction), a heart attack caused by complete obstruction of a coronary artery. He founded the Single Individual Community Experience Registry (SINCERE) database in 2005, a registry database containing medical and logistical information of over 1,000 short Door-to-Balloon (D2B) STEMI procedures all performed by Mehta.
Single Individual Community Experience Registry (SINCERE)
Mehta used observations from SINCERE to provide leadership in the construction of population-based AMI programs in several countries. One such program is the Puerto Rican Infarct Nationwide Collaborative Experience (PRINCE), which has networked all PCI programs in Puerto Rico with a standardized STEMI strategy using evidence-based AMI practices, ACC guidelines and a common protocol. PRINCE is estimated to save 3,297 lives and $110 million annually when maximally operational. Another large-scale program is the , headed by professor at Peking University First Hospital. This project has incorporated a standardized short D2B strategy in an endeavor that is unprecedented in its size and reach and is aimed to markedly reduce nationwide morbidity and mortality associated with AMI using cost-effective, primary PCI.
Education
Mehta was born in New Delhi, India where he obtained his graduate medical degree from the University of Delhi. He received an MBA in Healthcare from the University of Miami, training at the New York Infirmary and his Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology training at New York Medical College. Mehta was Chief of Interventional Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Cedars Medical Center in Miami (1995-2002), and President of the Miami-Dade chapter of the American Heart Association (1999, 2000). Mehta has taken educational roles in angioplasty, including laser angioplasty, atherectomy, and stenting in numerous countries, and he is an author on more than 100 scientific publications. He is the founder of the Indian Society of Interventional Cardiologists and a Voluntary Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine.
National Change in Treatment
In 2007, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association launched “Door to Balloon (D2B): An Alliance for Quality”in an effort to increase the use of PCI and attain at 90 minute or less D2B time. The effort was done on a large scale after Yale University published a study on the need to make angioplasty the protocol treatment for all STEMI patients.
U.S. National STEMI Receiving Centers
In 2008, Mehta began a campaign to create U.S. National STEMI Receiving Centers within hospitals, citing that the U.S. was behind its European counterparts. He cited national protocols for trauma patients, but little existed for STEMI patients, with many being transported to hospitals not equipped to handle treatment. Instead of angioplasty, many patients were treated with thrombolytic drug therapy, which opened arteries, but did little for the blockage.
Mehta pioneered the effort both nationally and globally, authoring the "Textbook of STEMI Interventions" and educating other cardiologist on ways to decrease D2B times.He has pioneered the development of population-based heart attack programs in several countries including China, India, Brazil, Russia, Malaysia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Colombia.

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