Akshay Bagai

Dr. Akshay Bagai is a practicing interventional cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bagai received his MD and trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Toronto. He completed his training in Interventional Cardiology at St. Michael’s Hospital. He obtained a Master’s degree in Health Sciences from the Clinical Research Training Program at Duke University, USA.  He returned to Toronto and joined the Division of Cardiology at St. Michael’s Hospital in 2013.  His clinical and research interests are closely aligned and include complex, high risk and total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention, and transcatheter interventions for mitral and tricuspid valve disease.

Clinical interests and areas of expertise: Complex and high-risk coronary intervention, transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve intervention

Academic interests (research, teaching/education, quality improvement etc.):  Observational registries and mechanistic phase II clinical trials. Two specific areas of investigations are: 1) Complex and high-risk coronary intervention, and 2) Transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve intervention

Clinics: General Cardiology, Structural Heart, CTO/Complex PCI