Carlos E Rivas-Gotz, MD

Bethany Austin, MD is a board certified cardiologist with Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants and is on staff primarily at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. She subspecializes in Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation, and Mechanical Circulatory Support. She is a Medical Director of the Heart Failure Program and Chair of the Cardiovascular Evidence-Based Practice Team, as well as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Dr Chhatriwalla is an interventional cardiologist and Clinical Scholar at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He specializes in Coronary and Structural Interventions, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement (MTEER, TMVR) and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Intervention. He is the Medical Director of Structural Intervention and the Director of Interventional Research at Saint Luke's Hospital. He helped to launch the transcatheter pulmonary valve program in 2014 and has remained active in the Adult Congenital Heart Disease program since that time.

Laura Schmidt, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist with Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular Consultants and on staff at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. Clinical interests include general cardiology, congenital heart disease, heart conditions in pregnancy, peripheral vascular disease and women’s cardiovascular health. In addition to her clinical interests, Dr Schmidt is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and Co-Director of Saint Luke’s Heart Conditions in Pregnancy Program.