Srinivas Iyengar, MD was born and raised in New Jersey. He completed his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University. He attended medical school at Ross University, with subsequent internal medicine training (including a year as Chief Resident) at the Jewish Hospital/University of Cincinnati. Dr. Iyengar completed a heart failure/transplantation fellowship and a general cardiology fellowship under the tutelage of Dr. William Abraham at the Ohio State University. He then completed a two-year advanced interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Iyengar was in practice for eight years in Florida where he created/directed two separate transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) programs, as well as spearheading the MitraClip and WATCHMAN/LAA occlusion programs in his respective hospitals. Dr. Iyengar has authored numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. He has performed hundreds of TAVR, MitraClip and Watchman/LAA occlusion device procedures. He is currently very active in structural cardiology device research and speaks as faculty at a number of national, large-scale CV meetings. Dr, Iyengar is the program director of the SIF 2025 Fellows Course – Critical Topics in Structural Heart, supported by Medtronic. In addition, Dr. Iyengar is a Medtronic TAVR global proctor and WATCHMAN national proctor, meaning he teaches other cardiologists and physicians in training to perform these innovative procedures.
