Dr. Sameer Mehta

MD, FACC, MBA · Interventional Cardiologist · Chairman, Lumen Foundation

Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, is a U.S. interventional cardiologist who has presaged a new medical specialty of the STEMI Interventionist with his innovative work in performing angioplasty for treating heart attacks. Dr. Mehta has pioneered the development of population-based heart attack programs in several countries including China, India, Brazil, Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Egypt, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Colombia. He is Chairman of the Lumen Foundation, dedicated to saving lives from heart attacks and creating population-based STEMI networks, and Course Director of Lumen Global, the iconic AMI meeting now in its 16th year. Dr. Mehta has published extensively on improving STEMI outcomes by optimizing procedural techniques and refining the STEMI process — eliminating chaos, streamlining pre-hospital care and efficient ambulance transportation to decrease delays that increase morbidity and mortality from AMI. More recently his research and training in AMI care has involved telemedicine to reduce disparities of care between developed and developing countries and increase access to urgent treatment for AMI.