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Atasu K. Nayak, MD
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Texas Heart Institute Positions

  • Teaching Staff, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
  • Teaching Staff, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship

Interests

  • Cardiology
  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Echocardiography

Education

  • Medical School:

    Shri Ramachandra Bhanj Medical College, India

  • Internship:

    Lincoln Medical, Mental Health Center, New York Medical College

  • Residency:

    New York Medical College

  • Fellowships:

    University of Missouri (Columbia, MO) — Cardiology
    Lahey Clinic (Burlington, MA) — Interventional Cardiology

Academic & Clinical Affiliations

Honors, Awards and Memberships

  • The Texas Heart Institute Academic Professional Staff
  • Texas Super Doctors, Texas Monthly Magazine
  • Member, The Texas Heart Institute Cardiac Society
  • Fellow, Society of Vascular Medicine
  • Fellow, American College of Cardiology
  • Fellow, American College of Physicians and American Society of Internal Medicine,
  • Fellow, Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
  • Life Member, GOSUMEC Alumni Association, Seth GS Medical College, Bombay, India.
  • Fellow, Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention since 2004
  • Fellow, Society of Vascular Medicine and Biology
  • Member, Harris County Medical Society and Texas Medical Association
  • Board member, Houston Indian Doctors Associatio
  • Medical Council of India. M.C.I.
  • Member, AAPI (American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin) since 2005
  • Member, Houston IDA (Indian Doctors Association) since 2006
  • Chief Cardiology Fellow, New York Medical College

Publications

Kanda, B. S., Nayak, A. K., Posligua, W. et al. (2014). Recurrent broken heart syndrome: Case report and review. The New York Medical Journal 8, 8–13. Available at: https://newyorkmedicaljournal.org/articles/recurrent-broken-heart-syndrome-2/.
Birtcher, K. K., Greisinger, A. J., Brehm, B. J. et al. (2010). A secondary prevention lipid clinic reaches low-density lipoprotein cholesterol goals more often than usual cardiology care with coronary heart disease. J Clin Lipidol 4, 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacl.2009.12.001.
Nayak, A. K., Kawamura, A., Nesto, R. W. et al. (2006). Myocardial infarction as a presentation of clinical in-stent restenosis. Circ J 70, 1026–1029. https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.70.1026.
Iskander, A., Nayak, A. and Chauhan, M. S. (2005). Submassive pulmonary embolism and paradoxical embolic stroke treated with percutaneous rheolytic thrombectomy and closure of the patent foramen ovale. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 64, 356–360. https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.20306.
Aggarwal, K., Jayam, V. K., Meyer, M. A. et al. (2002). Thrombus-in-transit and paradoxical embolism. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 15, 1021–1022. https://doi.org/10.1067/mje.2002.121279.
Nayak, A. K. and Komatireddy, G. (2002). Cardiac manifestations of the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome: a review. Mo Med 99, 171–178