Azeem Latib

Section Head of Interventional Cardiology

MD

Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, US

Research areas

Biography

Dr Mohamed Azeem Latib is a world-leading expert in Interventional Cardiology. Dr Latib is the Section Head and Director of Interventional Cardiology as well as the Director of Structural Heart Interventions at the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care.

He is an editorial board member of Interventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources (ICR3).

His focus is on complex coronary interventions as well as transcatheter aortic, mitral and tricuspid interventions. His main clinical interests include Complex Coronary Interventions, Structural Heart Disease and New Device Innovation. He has extensive clinical experience in TAVR and MitraClip, as well as expertise in novel and new devices to treat mitral and tricuspid valve disease minimally invasively without open-heart surgery.

Dr Latib is currently involved in the development of the NeoChord NeXuS Transcatheter Mitral Chordal Repair Device and procedure.

He has over 550 peer-reviewed journal articles to his name. He serves on the editorial board of many journals, including Cardiac Interventions Today, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Interventions and Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine. He is a reviewer for many more journals and serves on the faculty of several international conferences.

Dr Latib is a member of several professional organisations, including the American College of Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology.