The Rapidly Expanding Structural Heart Program: Inclusion, Respect, and Equity in the Cath Lab
Presenter
Poonam Velagapudi, MD MS, FSCAI, The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Demarest, NJ
Poonam Velagapudi, MD MS, FSCAI, The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Demarest, NJ
Learning Objectives:
- Describe aging workforce in interventional cardiology.
- List how culture in cath labs has shifted from individual to team-based model with SHD interventions.
- Compare policies to promote equity that can improve performance, recruitment and retention in the cath lab.
- Give examples of how to operationalize equitable case distribution.
Keywords: Cath Lab Administration, Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Structural Heart Disease (SHD)