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Poonam Velagapudi, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI

Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate Program Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship
Director, Digital Innovation and Social Media Strategy

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Dr. Velagapudi is a structural interventional cardiologist, an assistant professor of medicine, and the associate program director for the cardiology fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She is also the director of Digital Innovations and Social Media Strategy for the Division of Cardiology and is the chair of the social media workgroup of the Department of Internal Medicine.

Education

Medical School: M.B.B.S, Osmania Medical College, India, 1999-2005
Internship: Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India, 2004-2005
Internship: Internal Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2009

Residency: Internal Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2009-2011
Residency: Cardiovascular Disease, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 2013-2016
Fellowship: Interventional Cardiovascular, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2016-2017
Fellowship: Structural Heart Disease, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, 2017-2018
Certifications
Interventional Cardiology
Cardiovascular Disease
Internal Medicine

Patient Care

Clinic Locations: Heart and Vascular Center at Durham Outpatient Center; Heart and Vascular Center at Oakview Health Center; Heart and Vascular Center at Bellevue Health Center

Research

Dr. Poonam Velagapudi's clinical and research interests include:

High risk percutaneous coronary intervention
Mechanical circulatory support devices in cardiogenic shock
Radial and large bore access
Structural heart procedures including TAVR, TMVR, MitraClip, & LAAC
Outcomes research in high-risk coronary & structural heart interventions
Increasing enrollment of women in clinical trials
Cardiology education

Poonam Velagapudi, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI

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