Welcome and Agenda

Interventional Cardiologist and Structural Hert Disease Specialist at Baylor Scott & White Health, The Heart Hospital Plano, United States of America. Dr. Al-Azizi is board-certified in interventional cardiology and cardiovascular disease. In addition, he has completed extensive training in structural heart disease and interventions. He specializes in valvular heart disease, transcatheter valve interventions (e.g. TAVR), left atrial appendage closure, coronary angiography, complex percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), peripheral vascular disease and interventions. His expertise also includes advanced cardiac imaging technology, including computed tomography (CT), nuclear cardiology, echocardiography and coronary imaging and physiology.

Srini Potluri, MD, FACC FSCAI is chairman of cardiology at Baylor Scott and White The Heart Hospital Plano, medical director of their cardiac catheterization laboratory and associate professor at Texas A&M. He also serves as the program director of interventional cardiology fellowship. He is on the board of Baylor Scott and White Cardiovascular Governance Council assisting in improving system wide cardiovascular quality and operations. He joined Baylor Scott and White Legacy Heart Center from the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana where he completed fellowships in cardiology and interventional cardiology. During his training he served as chief resident and chief interventional fellow and also received several awards in research and clinical excellence. His clinical interests are complex coronary interventions, chronic total occlusion intervention, transcatheter heart valve replacement, septal defect closures, left atrial appendage closures. In his busy practice he serves patients from North Texas and surrounding areas. He was named the best doctor in Dallas for several years. He is well published in the field of coronary and structural intervention and principal investigator in several national and global clinical research trials. He also serves on several industry advisory boards and actively participates and speaks at major national cardiovascular meetings. He lives in Frisco, TX with his wife and three daughters.