Samir B. Pancholy, MD, FACP

(Eastern Region)

Dr. Samir Pancholy is a practicing interventional cardiologist in Scranton Pennsylvania. After completing medical school in India, he trained at State University of New York at Stony Brook in internal medicine, was chief resident, and then completed fellowship in cardiovascular disease as well as interventional cardiology at Presbyterian University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia.

He serves as Professor of medicine at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, is the founding program director of the cardiology fellowship program at The Wright Center for graduate medical education, in Scranton.

He has been credited with many inventions, including an FDA approved device in use in cardiac catheterization laboratories in the United States and worldwide, and holds 73 issued patents in the United States, Europe and Japan. He has published over 165 research manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, has authored three textbooks, and serves on the editorial boards of several reputed international journals.

He is married to his wife Dr. Dipti Pancholy, who is a decorated internist, and has four children, three of whom are physicians.