Vaishnava, Prashant MD

Dr. Nir Uriel, an internationally recognized leader in heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplantation, has been named Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian. Dr. Uriel will oversee heart failure programs at NewYork-Presbyterians campuses in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Westchester, with a goal to increase accessibility of care for those with advanced heart failure throughout the New York area. Dr. Uriel was born and raised in Israel, where he attended medical school. After serving for four years as a physician in the Israeli Defense Forces, he then completed his cardiology residency and fellowship. In 2008, he moved to New York to pursue fellowships at NewYork- Presbyterian/Columbia in cardiology, heart failure, transplant, and mechanical circulatory support and remained here as a faculty member until 2014. He then served as the Louis Block Professor of Medicine and Director of Heart Failure, Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support at the University of Chicago Medicine, where, in 2018, he and his Chicago team made history performing two tripleorgan transplants within 27 hours.A dedicated researcher with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Uriel has improved treatment protocols for patients with end-stage heart failure and has extended criteria for the use of ventricular assist devices and eligibility for transplant for high-risk patients, including those who are HIV positive. His research continues with a focus on interactions of medical devices, such as VADS, with the human body.

Dr. Asad Baig is a highly accomplished physician specializing in vascular and interventional radiology. He currently serves as an assistant professor of radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an attending radiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Baig has expertise in performing minimally invasive procedures to manage and treat a wide array of clinical conditions ranging from cancer care, pain and musculoskeletal/spine interventions to men's and women's health. He is one of the pre-eminent kyphoplasty doctors at Columbia and in New York City and is one of the physicians involved in Columbia’s HHT Center of Excellence. Additional areas of focus for Dr. Baig include pain interventions, fibroid and prostate embolization, liver and kidney cancer treatments, knee embolization and ablation, IVC filter retrievals and placement, angiomyolipoma treatment, venous stenting, and many other vascular and interventional medicine areas. After graduating as one of the 15 most influential students at NYU, Dr. Baig attended medical school at Howard University. He completed his Internship in surgery at Northwell Health and his Radiology Residency at Nassau University Medical Center, where he served as chief resident. Dr. Baig received his fellowship training in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Emory University.Dr. Baig is an active teacher of fellows, residents, and medical students and has authored numerous book chapters and research articles. He has given lectures and presentations in various fields of interventional radiology at national and international conferences. In addition, he is a member of several radiology societies including the Society of Interventional Radiology and Radiologic Society of North America.

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