Samir Kapadia, M.D.Interventional CardiologistMiller Family Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Samir Kapadia, M.D.

Samir Kapadia, M.D., is an interventional cardiologist in the Cleveland Clinic Department of

Cardiovascular Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and

interventional cardiology. As an interventional cardiologist, Dr. Kapadia has a special interest

in coronary, structural heart disease-related cardiac interventions as well as carotid and

peripheral interventions.

A native of India, Dr. Kapadia received his medical degree with honors from Smt. N.H.L.M.

Medical College in Gujarat, India, scoring sixth highest out of 30,000 pre-med students on the

state boards. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Baylor

College of Medicine in Houston, TX, where he was named Outstanding Resident. He came to

Cleveland Clinic for a fellowship in cardiology and stayed on for a fellowship in interventional

cardiology, and during this time he became Chief Interventional Fellow. Dr. Kapadia was

appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 2003 as a staff interventional cardiologist. He is currently the

Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program.

Prior to his appointment to Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Kapadia had an academic appointment to

the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington, and he served as an

interventional cardiologist at the Puget Sound Health Care System of the Veterans

Administration Hospital in Seattle.

Dr. Kapadia has been involved as principal investigator or co-investigator in numerous

clinical trials related to percutaneous replacement of aortic valve, percutaneous mitral valve

repair, carotid stenting, and PFO closure. He has been invited to present results of his

research at national and international symposia and conferences. He is author or co-author

of more than 30 book chapters in medical textbooks on his specialty interests, and he has

authored numerous articles and abstracts in medical journals on his clinical experience. Dr.

Kapadia is an editorial reviewer for the peer-reviewed medical journals Circulation, Journal of

the American College of Cardiology, Cytokine and the Journal of the American Medical

Association. Dr. Kapadia is Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the

American Heart Association.

Since 2004, Cleveland Magazine named Dr. Kapadia to its list of “Top Doctors.” Dr. Kapadia

was the 2007 recipient of the Cleveland Clinic “Teacher of the Year Award” and received the

2006 “Innovator Award” from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He has also been recognized

internationally from the Indian Pharmacological Society’s Merit Prize for exceptional

performance and named a National Scholar by India’s National Council of Educational

Research & Training.