Manesh R. Patel, MD, FSCAI is Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Co-Director of the Duke Heart Center. Dr. Patel previously served as the cardiology section leader in Interventional Cardiology and as the Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories for the Duke University Health System. Dr. Patel previously served as the Director of Duke Cath Lab Research. His clinical interests include diagnostic and interventional coronary angiography, peripheral angiography and percutaneous intervention. He is involved in several clinical trials involving patients with vascular disease and in cardiac imaging.