Arka Chatterjee

Biography

Dr. Chatterjee joined Banner University Medical Center - Tucson as the Associate / Interim Director for Structural Heart disease after being an integral part of a high-volume structural program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  He originally hails from India and completed medical school at the University of Delhi followed by a residency at the University of Louisville. He underwent cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowships at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he then joined the faculty in 2016. In his first year on faculty, he was trained on structural and congenital procedures by both adult and pediatric interventionist mentors, gaining an experience which is extremely rare for adult cardiologists. Subsequently he was a key part of both the adult structural and adult congenital interventional programs. He is experienced in transcatheter therapies for valvular disease and other congenital / structural heart defects. He finds the best part of working in the structural heart team is the necessity of a team structure - different specialty physicians / surgeons, advanced providers all working to find the best treatment pathway for each individual patient.

At Banner, Dr. Chatterjee has been instrumental in improving both the volumes and quality outcomes of the structural heart programs leading to a 200-300% increase in the patients treated for structural heart issues with negligible complications.

Degrees

• M.D. Medical Doctor
• University of Delhi (Maulana Azad Medical College), New Delhi, India

Awards

• SCAI "30 in their 30s" Award
• Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention, Spring 2023
• Best Teacher Award
• General Cardiology Fellowship Program, Summer 2020
• Best of the Best Abstract Award
• Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Scientific Session 2016 Conference, Spring 2016