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Interventional cardiologists have as much a part to play in eliminating decades-old racial disparities in cardiovascular care as their colleagues and stakeholders, a lecturer suggested at this year s virtual scientific sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). Racial disparities exist in interventional cardiology, and admittedly, many of those things are out of our control. If you re like me, you often meet your patient on the cath lab table. That patient on the cath lab table has overcome social determinants of health, they ve overcome a lack of access they ve overcome the lack of access to a doctor who refers him for the right procedure, said Quinn Capers IV, MD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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