Parallax by Ankur Kalra
Episodes
EP 57: Academic Success, Decision-making & Pragmatic Approach with Dr. Ambarish Pandey
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Pandey, a recipient of multiple awards, thinks about himself as a person driven by curiosity rather than passion. He believes that his interest in...
Parallax HFSA Edition: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging with Dr Nancy M. Albert
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s Parallax in collaboration with the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) explores the many ways organisations can embrace the needs of...
EP 55: 5 Interventional trials that will change your practice: Review of ESC 21 – Dr Mirvat Alasnag
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the second ESC 2021 episode of Parallax, Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr. Mirvat Alasnag, interventional Cardiologist and Director of Catheterizatio...
EP 54: 5 Trials that will change your practice: Review of ESC 21 with Dr Purvi Parwani
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode Dr Ankur Kalra’s guest is Dr. Purvi Parwani, Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Disease Clinic and Assistant Professor at...
EP 53: Belonging, Sparkplug & Purpose with Dr. Nasrien E. Ibrahim
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“It was this sense of finally belonging somewhere that sparked my journey to self-love.” -Nasrien E. Ibrahim, Sparkplug Being an advanced heart ...
Parallax HFSA Edition: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging with Robert Mentz & Anuradha Lala
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How 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 a...
EP 51: Industry Pathway, Misconceptions & Perspectives with Dr Sameer Bansilal
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. 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 ...
EP 50: Conversation with Dr Deepak L Bhatt: Physician, Researcher, & Mentor
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Early in his career, Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt was considering becoming a basic science researcher. After an exchange with one of his mentors about doing sc...
EP 49: Workplace Hostility, Responsibility & Solutions with Dr Garima Sharma
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The American College of Cardiology surveyed cardiologists across the globe to have a more detailed understanding on the impact of hostility, discrimin...
EP 48: Supporting India During COVID: Prof Madhav Swaminathan, Duke Health and ASE Humanitarian Aid
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"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 U...
CardioNerds Meets Parallax: An Examined Life with Dr Ankur Kalra, Cardiologist, Writer & Podcaster
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two years, Parallax listeners have gotten to know Dr Ankur Kalra through his conversations with our guests. In this episode, we turned t...
EP 46: Dr Eric Adler on Mission, Mentorship & Synergy Between Research & Patient Care
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
According 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 ...
EP 45: The Journey of Dr Alin Gragossian, Physician, Heart Transplant Recipient & Advocate
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two and a half weeks before her urgent orthotopic transplantation, Alin led the life of a busy emergency medicine resident. The warning signs of her d...
EP 44: Refugee, Dishwasher, Cardiologist, Humanitarian: The Journey of Dr Heval Kelli
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr 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 ...
EP 43: Dr Nishtha Sodhi on Mentorship, Innovation and Inclusivity
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr 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...
EP 42: Dr Hafiza Khan on Trust, Patient Outreach and Instagram
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 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 fr...
EP 41: Mallory Abbott on Ebstein’s Anomaly, Self-Care & the Power of Gratitude
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mallory was not prepared when she underwent her first heart surgery in seventh grade: She was hoping to regain her stamina, instead she experienced wh...
EP 40: Mentorship, Reflection & the Journey of Mandeep R Mehra
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr 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 thi...
EP 39: The year 2020 in review with Sukh Nijjer
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first Parallax episode of 2021, Ankur welcomed back Sukh Nijjer from Imperial College London to review the most impactful events and advances i...
EP 38: Martin B Leon on CRF, Mentorship and the Lessons of 2020
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1980s, shortly after he left the NIH, Dr Martin B Leon founded the non-profit organisation, Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). At t...
EP 37: Lindsay’s Law: From Ballerina to Health Advocate
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Parallax welcomed its first non-physician/researcher guest: health advocate Lindsay Davis. Lindsay, ballerina with ambitions to study at Jul...
WiC, Mentorship and Diversity in Academic Publishing with Drs Erin D Michos & Danielle Belardo
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, women still only represent 16% of editorial boards1. US Cardiology Review journal, has recently seen a 7-fold increase in female editorial ...
EP 35: C Mike Gibson on Art, Medicine and Fatherhood
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the first things painted by the young Mike Gibson, today Professor of Medicine at Harvard, researcher and interventional cardiologist, was a cl...
EP 34: Toolbox of an Analyst with Suzanne J Baron
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode Ankur Kalra asks Dr Suzanne J Baron, Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center: H...
EP 33: Chuck Simonton on Leadership, Innovations and Industry
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Parallax, host Ankur Kalra is joined by Charles (Chuck) Simonton, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Abiomed. Chuck talks ab...
EP 32: Diagnosing and treating sexism in cardiology with Martha Gulati
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Martha Gulati, Professor of Medicine and the Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona joins Ankur Kalra to continue the important conversation...
EP 31: Mending the broken house of cardiology with Roxana Mehran
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest, Prof Roxana Mehran, Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Founding Director of Women as One, is a phenomenon in interventional...
30: Laura Mauri on career decisions, mentorship and advancing medicine
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Dr Laura Mauri who became Vice President of Global Clinical Research and Analytics at Medtronic in 2018 after an illustrious ca...
29: Addressing Institutionalized Racism in Healthcare
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 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 w...
28: Unified pathways for treating structural heart disease: Anmar Kanaa’N & Joseph Lahorra
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Heart surgery is not the best option for every patient suffering from structural heart disease. This was recognized by interventional cardiologist Anm...
27: The new reality of CVD care with Grant W Reed, Director of the Cleveland Clinic’s STEMI program
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The State of Ohio reported its first coronavirus cases on March 9. Prior to that, on February 28, the Cleveland Clinic announced that they are prepare...
26: Stories to tell: Lisa Rosenbaum's journey to medical journalism at NEJM
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Ankur Kalra talks with Lisa Rosenbaum, national correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine and cardiologist at Brigham and Women’...
25: Portrait of a clinician-scientist during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Jag Singh MD PhD
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A 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, ...
24: COVID-19 lessons and learnings from Italy with Prof Michele Senni
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“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 Hospita...
23: COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“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 S...
22: COVID-19 lessons and learnings from South East Asia with Bill Gogas
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 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...
21: The “interventional intensivist” with Ann Gage
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We can count on our fingertips how many “interventional intensivist” exist in the US. In this episode Ankur Kalra, MD meets with Dr Ann Gage, C...
20: The staging of aortic valve disease: a novel approach with Joao Cavalcante
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Cavalcante meets with Ankur Kalra, MD to discuss his recent review published in US Cardiology Review 13.2; on a new aortic stenosis staging system ...
19: Women in Cardiology with Kendra Grubb
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first female cardiac surgeon qualified in the 1960’s. Today there are only 4.5% women in cardiology and only 4% in thoracic surgery. Ankur Kalra...
18: The year 2019 in review with Sukh Nijjer
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our final episode of the year, Ankur has an long conversation with Sukh Nijjer from Imperial College London about the most impactful, exciting and ...
17: Rasha Al-Lamee on ORBITA, ISCHEMIA, coronary revascularisation & stable ischemic heart disease
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded before the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2019, Ankur is joined by Rasha K Al-Lamee, Interventional Cardiologist at Imp...
16: Ajay J Kirtane on fatherhood, cardiology, research & even a little Karma Yoga
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Ankur spoke with Ajay J Kirtane on why he became a cardiologist, how he fell into academic research, and why the cardiology specialty is he...
15: Gregg W Stone on becoming a clinician, trialist and educator
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How did Gregg from Cleveland, Ohio become Gregg W Stone MD, world-leading interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist? This week, Ankur had the ...
14: Establishing an academic career: A discussion with Neal S Kleiman
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded on site at TCT, COAPT investigator Dr Neal S Kleiman and Ankur discuss the realities of establishing an academic career as an interventional ...
13: 2/2 Srihari S Naidu on Work-Life Balance: How to get it right
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
13: 2/2 Srihari S Naidu on Work-Life Balance: How to get it right by Radcliffe Cardiology
12: 1/2 Srihari S Naidu on Mentorship: Following your strength
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Srihari S Naidu shares his career tips for young, ambitious cardiologists and what he has learnt about mentorship from his numerous leadership positio...
11: 3/3 Burnout & Resilience with Kavitha Chinnaiyan: Practicing self-care to avoid burnout
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What are the key pillars of self-care and what do dirty windshields have to do with it? How can you take meditation “off the matt”? What has chron...
10: 2/3 Burnout & Resilience with Kavitha Chinnaiyan: How mindfulness and the ego interact
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does mindfulness have to do with burnout? Is our definition of success driving our stress and anxiety? How can we channel our ego into something ...
09: 1/3 Burnout & Resilience with Kavitha Chinnaiyan: Moral injury, competition & individualism
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you nurture resilience in the midst of competition, envy and individualism? What is moral injury? Is the current healthcare landscape driving p...
08: Diversity, inclusion & leadership: A discussion with Madhav Swaminathan
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Madhav Swaminathan joins Ankur Kalra for a dynamic conversation about diversity, inclusion and leadership. Madhav shares how, as President of large or...
07: Demystifying the wall portraits in medical halls with Harriette GC Van Spall
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Following the recent controversy surrounding physician portraits displayed in medical hallways, Ankur spoke to Harriette GC Van Spall MD to unpick thi...
06: Danielle Belardo @TheVeggieMD on a whole-food plant-based diet and cardiovascular health
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In celebration of this month’s ‘National Eat Your Vegetables Day’, this week’s guest is @TheVeggieMD, one of the most prominent physicians on ...
05: Role of drug-coated balloons in small-vessel CAD with Emmanouil S Brilakis and Michael Megaly
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to our first episode with two guests! Ankur spoke with Emmanouil S Brilakis, MD and Michael Megaly, MD from the Minneapolis Heart Institute, Ab...
04: J Dawn Abbott on recent developments in percutaneous coronary intervention
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We have observed a lot of developments in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) over the past 12 months with the publication of various studies and...
03: Athena Poppas on effective management of hypertension
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s podcast guest needs no introduction! Prof Athena Poppas is one of the most widely known cardiologists in the US and current Vice-Preside...
02: Role of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin in acute coronary syndrome with Santiago Garcia
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ankur is back with his second #AudioArticle! This week he spoke with Santiago Garcia from the Minneapolis Heart Institute about Santiago’s US Cardio...
01: Conduction abnormalities after TAVR with Chad Kliger
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode, Ankur explains his vision for and inspiration to start ‘Parallax’ and speaks with Chad Kliger from Lenox Hill Hospital NY ab...
01: Conduction abnormalities after TAVR with Chad Kliger
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode, Ankur explains his vision for and inspiration to start ‘Parallax’ and speaks with Chad Kliger from Lenox Hill Hospital NY ab...