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The Heart 121 DeKalb Avenue, 6th Floor Center at TBHC Brooklyn, NY 11238 T: 718-250-8265 tbh.org/heart COMPREHENSIVE CARDIAC CARE

About The Brooklyn Hospital Center TBHC Since 1845, The Brooklyn Hospital Center has been dedicated to providing outstanding health services, education, and research to keep the people of Brooklyn and greater New York healthy. TBHC’s focus is ensuring optimal patient care through the use of advanced technology, innovative medical and surgical treatments, and staff expertise. Located in the heart of , TBHC is a clinical affiliate How to get to us: of The Mount Sinai Hospital and an By Subway academic affiliate of the Icahn School B, Q, R to DeKalb Ave. of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St. As Brooklyn’s first hospital, TBHC is C to Lafayette Ave. proud to be a part of this incredibly BROOKLYN, TAKE HEART! (A train, 10:30 pm - 6 am) diverse community and is committed WORLD-CLASS CARE WHERE YOU NEED IT MOST G to Fulton St./Lafayette Ave. to Keeping Brooklyn Healthy.

By Bus About the Mount Sinai Health System , , to Fulton St./Ashland Pl. The Mount Sinai Health System is B37 to Fulton St./ ’s largest integrated Flatbush Ave. Extension health delivery system encompassing (eastbound) to Fulton St./ seven hospital campuses, a leading Lafayette Ave. medical school, and a large network of B38 (westbound) to DeKalb Ave./ ambulatory practices throughout the Ashland Pl. greater New York region. Mount Sinai’s to Livingston St./ vision is to produce the safest care, the Flatbush Ave. Extension. highest quality, the highest satisfaction, to Myrtle Ave./Ashland Pl. the best access and the best value of any By Long Island Railroad (LIRR) health system in the nation. Physicians LIRR to Atlantic Avenue Terminal. are affiliated with the renowned Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked one of the nation’s top 20 hospitals in Cardiology/Heart Surgery. The Brooklyn A clinical partnership in Downtown Brooklyn Sophisticated services Meet Our Team Hospital Center- The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC), the Mount Sinai Heart’s Cardiac The Brooklyn Hospital Center- Mount Sinai Heart oldest hospital in the borough, has partnered Catheterization Laboratory Mount Sinai Heart cardiologists, nurses, technicians, and staff Comprehensive with Mount Sinai Heart, part of the renowned has a 19-year-long track record are compassionate and skilled Cardiac Care Mount Sinai Health System, to bring of offering the highest level comprehensive cardiac care to Downtown in their care. Program of patient safety in New York Brooklyn. This alliance, built on the foundation State. With the expansion of Please meet our leadership: of excellent care provided by TBHC’s these services under Mount Samin Sharma, MD, FACC cardiologists and clinicians, makes it possible Sinai Heart’s direction, the Professor of Cardiology, for TBHC to offer sophisticated preventive, newly enhanced Brooklyn Heart Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director of Clinical and diagnostic, interventional, and treatment Center aims to grow TBHC’s Interventional Cardiology at services. This program is supported by a already excellent cardiac The Mount Sinai Hospital joint cardiology fellowship under the Icahn program into a destination Sarath Reddy, MD School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Primary service for Brooklynites. Chief of Cardiology, TBHC cardiology services are also offered through Comprehensive offerings Srinivas Kesanakurthy, MD TBHC’s Family Health Centers and other sites now include: Medical Director, Cardiac in TBHC’s ambulatory care network. Together • Diagnostic catheterization Cath Lab, TBHC Program Director, TBHC and Mount Sinai Heart are Keeping • Percutaneous coronary The Brooklyn Heart Center Brooklyn Heart Healthy. intervention (PCI) Ranjit Suri, MD • Electrophysiology (EP) studies Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Local, quality heart care Service and Electrophysiology • Echocardiography, treadmill When it comes to excellent heart care, time Laboratory, TBHC stress test, nuclear stress test, saved means lives saved. The communities and cardioversion Nitin Barman, MD of Downtown and North Central Brooklyn • Heart failure program Director of Quality Oversight, have a significant need for interventional heart TBHC-Mount Sinai Heart • Regular cardiac care care and treatment services. For the nearly Deepika Misra, MD • Diagnostic angiography, 1 million residents of nearby neighborhoods, Program Director, Cardiovascular peripheral angiography, and the enhancement of TBHC’s cardiology Diseases Fellowship at Icahn implantable loop recorder School of Medicine, program means local, quality, compassionate services Mount Sinai Beth Israel Program heart care–all without crossing a bridge.