Samir Kapadia, M.D.Interventional CardiologistMiller Family Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Samir Kapadia, M.D.
Samir Kapadia, M.D., is an interventional cardiologist in the Cleveland Clinic Department of
Cardiovascular Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and
interventional cardiology. As an interventional cardiologist, Dr. Kapadia has a special interest
in coronary, structural heart disease-related cardiac interventions as well as carotid and
peripheral interventions.
A native of India, Dr. Kapadia received his medical degree with honors from Smt. N.H.L.M.
Medical College in Gujarat, India, scoring sixth highest out of 30,000 pre-med students on the
state boards. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston, TX, where he was named Outstanding Resident. He came to
Cleveland Clinic for a fellowship in cardiology and stayed on for a fellowship in interventional
cardiology, and during this time he became Chief Interventional Fellow. Dr. Kapadia was
appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 2003 as a staff interventional cardiologist. He is currently the
Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program.
Prior to his appointment to Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Kapadia had an academic appointment to
the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington, and he served as an
interventional cardiologist at the Puget Sound Health Care System of the Veterans
Administration Hospital in Seattle.
Dr. Kapadia has been involved as principal investigator or co-investigator in numerous
clinical trials related to percutaneous replacement of aortic valve, percutaneous mitral valve
repair, carotid stenting, and PFO closure. He has been invited to present results of his
research at national and international symposia and conferences. He is author or co-author
of more than 30 book chapters in medical textbooks on his specialty interests, and he has
authored numerous articles and abstracts in medical journals on his clinical experience. Dr.
Kapadia is an editorial reviewer for the peer-reviewed medical journals Circulation, Journal of
the American College of Cardiology, Cytokine and the Journal of the American Medical
Association. Dr. Kapadia is Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the
American Heart Association.
Since 2004, Cleveland Magazine named Dr. Kapadia to its list of “Top Doctors.” Dr. Kapadia
was the 2007 recipient of the Cleveland Clinic “Teacher of the Year Award” and received the
2006 “Innovator Award” from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He has also been recognized
internationally from the Indian Pharmacological Society’s Merit Prize for exceptional
performance and named a National Scholar by India’s National Council of Educational
Research & Training.