Interventional Procedures - Questions and Answers about Stents, Angioplasty and New Approaches to Treat Heart Disease —
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 12 noon (EST)

Ravi Nair, MD
Associate Director, Sones Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories,
Cleveland Clinic Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

Today, interventional cardiologists are armed with an array of devices, medical therapies and new procedures to help patients with coronary artery disease. While these new advances in treatment options are benefiting millions of patients each year, keeping up with all of the latest medical news, breakthroughs and research studies and can be quite daunting for patients. Dr. Nair will help to sort through all of this information and address your questions regarding non-surgical treatments for coronary artery disease.

Dr. Ravi N. Nair, MD, is on the staff of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is also a professor of medicine at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Appointed to the Cleveland Clinic in 2008, he previously served as Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at University Hospital of Cleveland and was a Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.

His specialty interests are ischemic heart disease, advanced cardiac invasive diagnostic procedure, and coronary intervention. Dr. Nair is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialties of Interventional Cardiology and Cardiovascular Disease.