Dr. Samir B. Pancholy practices in Scranton, PA, and serves as the Founding Program Director of the fellowship program in cardiovascular diseases at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, as Professor of Medicine at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, and as Director of Interventional Cardiology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, PA.
He earned his medical degree from BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad, India, and completed his residency at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY. In addition, Dr. Pancholy completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at the Presbyterian Medical Center and Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
While practicing in a community setting, Dr. Pancholy has authored over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts in reputed international journals and several textbooks. His pragmatic research questions, passion, and energy have motivated several like-minded investigators globally, resulting in several practice-changing randomized trials, providing foundational evidence that has led to the development of best practice recommendations for transradial procedures. He has developed multiple techniques to improve procedural safety and success while performing catheter-based procedures. He has invented several medical devices, some FDA-approved and used in cardiac catheterization laboratories worldwide. He holds more than 70 patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
He is the Founding Co-Chair of the Transradial Working Group and Vascular Access Working Group of SCAI, credited with a successful and systematic campaign to increase the adoption of transradial access in the US and globally. He is the founding chair of the SCAI-TRIP (Transradial Intervention Program), providing educational programs in transradial access. In addition, he is the Founding Co-Director of the Transradial Interventional Course (TRICO) offered annually in Ahmedabad, India. since 2006, providing a live demonstration platform portraying state-of-the-art PCI techniques, with an emphasis on transradial access.