Himani Bhatt, DO, MPA

Dr. Himani V. Bhatt received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Rutgers University and graduate medical education at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  She went on the finish her residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital and cardiothoracic fellowship at Duke Heart Center.  She is currently an associate professor of Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and serves as the Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Morningside Medical Center.  As a full-time cardiac anesthesiologist, her clinical interests are the care of high-risk cardiac patients and surgical outcomes.  She also has a strong interest in patient blood management (PBM) and serves as the clinical liaison for Mount Sinai Systems PBM program and Chair of the PBM-Transfusion Committee at Mount Sinai Morningside Medical Center in addition to multiple committees in the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, American Society of Anesthesiologists and American Society of Echocardiography.  She is also an enthusiastic teacher for her residents and fellows and has taken part in multiple educational projects and publications.   In addition to her clinical focus, her research interest includes topics related to use of TEE in the anesthetic management of cardiac surgical cases, evaluating outcomes in cardiac patients and anesthetic concerns in innovative fields such as electrophysiology (EP) and use of Regional Anesthesia in cardiac patients.