On this episode of The Heart Beat, Lance McCoy talks about his cardiology rotation at The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care. McCoy also details his grandmother's experience with cardiovascular disease and how heart-device advances made at The Institute helped prolong her life. Lance shares his account of numerous trips to the hospital to visit his grandmother and how these experiences will make him a better doctor to patients with similar conditions.

On this episode of The Heart Beat, Maya Pomroy interviews Lance McCoy, the first University of Houston College of Medicine student to participate in the new cardiology training rotation at The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care. McCoy began his journey at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), where he discovered his passion for research. His interests then led him to the prestigious University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where McCoy served as a research assistant and helped develop novel imaging technology to improve patient outcomes associated with radiation therapy.

This episode of The Heart Beat covers Elastic Electronics with Camila Hochman-Mendez, PhD, and she talks about flexible semi conductive materials that record electrical activities in the heart, and the work being done at The Texas Heart Institute to explore painless treatment options.

This episode of The Heart Beat is the last in a series of interviews with Dr. Mehdi Razavi, and it covers incidents in atrial fibrillation, and the work being done at The Texas Heart Institute to explore painless treatment options.

In this episode of The Heart Beat, The Texas Heart Institute Director of Electrophysiology Clinical Research & Innovations, Dr. Mehdi Razavi, explains using catheter ablation to treat atrial fibrillation.

As part of The Heart Beat series of interviews with Dr. Mehdi Razavi and his team, recent graduate of the Rice University Global Medical Innovations Program, Kunal Shah, MBE, shares details about an entirely new way of treating cardiac arrhythmias and preventing sudden cardiac death.

Texas Heart Institute Director of Electrophysiology Clinical Research & Innovations, Mehdi Razavi, MD details his journey to medicine being from a family of physicians. We also hear from cardiac electrophysiologist Joanna Molina Razavi, MD who trained at THI.

(XN part III) In the third episode in The Heart Beat mini-series featuring Elizabeth Jaworski, Ph.D., and Lance Black, MD, host Maya Pomroy discusses their collaboration with Dr. Mehdi Razavi, TMC Innovation, and THI’s Electrophysiology Clinical Research and Innovations team. The episode highlights the pathway to the clinic and many partnerships and funding sources required to propel inventions and innovations forward.