Karan Wats, MD
Locations and Appointments
CUIMC/Vivian & Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office to verify that your insurance is accepted.
- AETNA
- CIGNA
- Emblem/Hip
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Fidelis Care
- Healthfirst
- Local 1199
- Magnacare (National)
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- Quality Health Management
- RiverSpring
- UnitedHealthcare
- VNSNY CHOICE
- World Trade Center Health Plan
About Karan Wats, MD
Dr. Karan Wats is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cardiologist, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with advanced heart failure. His practice includes those requiring left ventricular assist device or heart transplantation. He also attends as a cardiac intensivist. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, Hypertension and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology.
Dr. Wats received his medical degree from Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, India. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center. He then went on to do Hypertension Research fellowship at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai followed by Cardiology fellowship at Maimonides Medical Center and Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant fellowship at Westchester Medical Center. He is particularly interested in infiltrative cardiomyopathy and currently serves as an associate director for amyloid program.
Board Certifications
- Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Internal Medicine, Hypertension
Expertise
Heart Failure
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Pulmonary Hypertension
Education
Fellowship: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Fellowship: Maimonides Medical Center
Fellowship: Westchester Medical Center
Internship: Maimonides Medical Center
Medical School: Dayanand Medical College and Hospital
Residency: Maimonides Medical Center
Titles & Positions
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hospital Affiliations
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Education
- Medical School: Dayanand Medical College and Hospital
- Residency: Maimonides Medical Center
- Fellowship: Maimonides Medical Center
- Internship: Maimonides Medical Center
- Fellowship: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Fellowship: Westchester Medical Center
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Board Certifications
- Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Internal Medicine, Hypertension