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Akhilesh Sista, MD

Weill Cornell Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York, United States

Dr. Sista joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine in June 2022. His clinical and research expertise lies in the medical and endovascular treatment of venous thromboembolic disease (VTE). He has specific expertise in catheter-based interventions for acute and chronic deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE).

He has given 200 invited talks and moderated sessions at national and international meetings on VTE and has served on national committees. He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including original VTE clinical research and clinical practice standards in the medical and radiologic literature with co-authors from multiple disciplines.

He chaired the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation’s Research Consensus Panel with experts from 6 disciplines on Submassive Pulmonary Embolism in December 2015 which developed specific research questions to be answered by future research. He was the National Principal Investigator for Penumbra, Inc.’s multicenter (22 sites) prospectivetrial (N=119) of the Indigo CAT-8 thromboaspiration device for submassive PE (EXTRACT-PE), and was the co-National PI for the multicenter RESCUE study (N=120) of the Bashir Endovascular Catheter for submassive PE. He co-chaired the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statement on Interventional Therapy for Pulmonary Embolism and is on the Steering Committee and co-chair the InterventionaI Committee of the NHLBI-sponsored C-TRACT trial. He won the 2018 Mark A. Creager prize for outstanding research, awarded by the Society of Vascular Medicine.

He has been recognized as a Fellow of both the Society of Interventional Radiology (FSIR) and the American Heart Association (FAHA).

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