Our Founders
Dr. Samir Pancholy, MD
Samir is a respected interventional cardiologist, innovator and experienced practitioner in the field of cardiology. He holds Founder’s seats on both the Transradial & Vascular Access Committee of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and the Founding Course Director of the Transradial Interventions Programs of the SCAI.
He is Professor of Medicine, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton, PA; Program Director, Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, PA; and Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Samir is American Board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Interventional Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation. He also holds a Diplomate of Certification Board of Cardiac Computed Tomography. He has won awards for his work, including the Borst Award from The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles.
He is recognized nationally and internationally for his expertise in cardiology, particularly interventional cardiology. He has been and is an invited faculty at a number of institutions in the United States and abroad, and is a named inventor in more than thirty US and international patents.
Raj Sardesai, MBA, JD, PhD
Raj is an innovator, a patent attorney and a business leader. He has worked as a research scientist at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in the U.K. and then Heat Transfer Research, Inc. in California; developing defense and industry solutions pertaining to heat transfer and fluid dynamics. He has published several engineering papers and wrote a chapter in the Heat Exchanger Design Handbook. He was also Technical Director and Risk Manager at the global design, engineering, and construction firm Parsons Corporation.
Later as a patent lawyer in private practice, he worked at the well-known law firm, Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, California. There, he was a member of the intellectual property group, and specialized in representing chemical and high-technology clients with a focus on patent prosecution and litigation - helping them to develop, protect, and commercialize their intellectual property portfolios.
Thereafter, Raj served as Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for publicly-listed Avery Dennison Corporation, where he supervised a team of lawyers and managed patents and trademark matters for the Company worldwide.