In this episode we sit down with Kate Kearney, MD an interventional cardiologist with a specialization in high risk coronary artery treatments. This specialization is a fellowship training pathway at UW Medicine Heart Institute called a CHIP fellowship, in which Dr. Kearney thrived in 2018 and now teaches. She is also focused on SCAD (Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection) as well as the diagnosis and treatment of women's coronary artery disease.
1:34 - Background
3:15 - Choosing Intervention
4:40 - Unique Make-up of Fellowship
6:00 - Specialization within Interventional Cardiology
9:10 - The draw to Chronic Total Occlusions
10:45 - Impact of Work
13:00 - Benefits of academic team culture - shout out Cath Lab team
14:00 - Better every year
16:10 - CHIP * Complex High-Risk Indicated PCI.
17:35 - Collaboration between surgeons and interventionalists
19:25 - Hybrid Coronary Interventions
24:35 - Devices in Circulatory Support + Stenting
30:10 - Coronary and other device evolution
32:40 - STAR (Subintimal tracking and reentry)
37:10 - The MONGO Story - To be discussed in a future episode
37:30 - A growth mindset
40:15 - SCAD (Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection)
45:32 - Women + Chest Pain
52:28 - Teaching the Mindset
54:50 - Past-Fellow Shout Out
58:50 - Work-Life Balance (Boundaries)
Contact Dr. Kearney - kek35@uw.edu
Fellowship Program
22:50 - Dr. Kirkpatrick Grand Rounds - Cardioethics of Heart Procurement after Cardiac Death
