Dr. Mehul Patel MD, is a structural and adult congenital heart disease specialist and an interventional cardiologist. Dr. Patel earned his undergraduate and medical education from the Mumbai University, India. After completing his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, he further trained in interventional cardiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC, NY and Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the Texas Children’s Hospital, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Dr. Patel worked as Chief of adult congenital heart disease, Assistant Professor at the Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI where he not only expanded the program, performing complex interventions and device implantations but also established the percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (Melody Valve) Program. Due to his passion for treating structurally abnormal hearts, he did a dedicated year of Structural Heart Disease fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI where he worked with pioneers in this field before moving to North Carolina. He is proficient in performing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), MitraClip, Watchman device implantation, percutaneous Mitral, Tricuspid and Pulmonary valve replacements along with a variety of interventions on congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Patel is ABIM board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Interventional cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Dr. Patel has more than 50 peer reviewed publications and numerous abstracts to his credit. He serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief for the CHiP Network journal watch. His wife, Khyati is a pediatric cardiac Electrophysiologist and they have a 9-year-old daughter. Dr. Patel is also an artist, likes music, yoga and plays badminton. His clinical areas of expertise and interests are: 1) Transcatheter therapies for Structural and Adult Congenital heart disease. 2) Complex device implantations.