SYRACUSE, N.Y.— St. Joseph’s Health announced that it recently named Dr. Nish Amin director of invasive services.
Invasive cardiac services include procedures such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), angioplasty, catheterization, coronary stents, pacemaker and defibrillator insertion, thrombolysis, and electrophysiology studies.
Dr. Amin is an interventional cardiologist with St. Joseph’s Physicians. He earned his medical degree from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School at the University of London in England. Following one year of family practice at Albany Medical Center, Dr. Amin completed his internal medicine residency, held the role of chief resident, and was a cardiology fellow at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, according to a St. Joseph’s news release. He completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania and worked over a decade as an interventional and general cardiologist at New York Heart Center following fellowship.
Prior to joining St. Joseph’s Physicians, Dr. Amin was medical director of the Heart and Vascular Institute at Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira. Amin also was director of the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab as an interventional cardiologist, and performed non-invasive cardiology services.
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