Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM, is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Director of Columbia Interventional Cardiovascular Care at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Kirtane is a practicing cardiologist with an interest in coronary and peripheral intervention. In addition to his clinical commitments at CUIMC, Dr. Kirtane has a strong interest in clinical education and research, serving as Chief Academic Officer of Columbia Interventional Cardiovascular Care.
On the national and international level, he is a Director of CRF's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, has served as a director of several international, national, and regional educational meetings, and has participated on the program committees for the scientific sessions of both the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association. Dr. Kirtane's research interests are in clinical trial methodology and outcomes of device-based and pharmacologic interventions in interventional cardiology. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 original manuscripts and over 50 reviews and chapters, including the “Coronary Stenting” chapters of the two most widely used textbooks in interventional cardiology. He has been principal investigator for several multicenter trials of interventional devices and serves on the steering committees of several large-scale clinical trials in interventional cardiovascular medicine.
Dr. Kirtane is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency/chief residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease and coronary and peripheral vascular intervention at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School and has a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.