Dr. Manesh Patel is the Chief of the Division of Cardiology and the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Duke University. He is the Chair of the American College of Cardiology Task Force for Appropriate Use Criteria for Cardiovascular Procedures and is Chair of the American Heart Association Diagnostic and Interventional Cath Committee. He is involved in multiple cardiovascular disease and imaging clinical trials and is leading an effort to redesign the delivery of care to patients undergoing invasive catheterization procedures in the health system. His clinical interests include diagnostic and interventional coronary angiography, peripheral angiography and endovascular intervention. In 2011, Dr. Patel was named the endowed John Bush Simpson Assistant Professor of Cardiology and in 2013, he received the Robert M. Califf Faculty clinical research Award.