In this insightful conversation, we sit down Dr. Petra Lynch, a seasoned expert in the field of Interventional Cardiology, as she discusses her journey into medicine, her approach to patient care, and the exciting gains in combatting maternal mortality. Dr. Lynch shares her passion for women's heart health, treatments for the transgender community, and her continued focus on patients with complex medical problems.
Hi, I'm Petra Lynch. I'm an interventional cardiologist with Centa and um, I, I'm originally from Germany. So if you notice a German accent, that's where I'm from. And I've been with sent now for almost two years. And um I work mainly on the peninsula but I cover most hospitals within the tera system. So my primary clinical interest despite being an intellectual cardiologist actually lies in clinic. Um I specialize in women's heart disease and also in um prevention of heart disease. Um I have several, you know, subspecialties um that I partner with in order to treat patients that are a little bit more complicated. So I partner currently with the OB portion of EV MS and our high risk ob patients and we have a ob cardiology program. I also partner with EV MS endocrinology um on transgender patients and try to take care of their needs in the cardiology room. And I also um try to assess um women's heart risk um with um a history of preeclampsia or postpartum preeclampsia um during menopause and prior to menopause. So, um that's another partnership with um our obstetric team. I originally was um in cardiothoracic surgery in Germany. And um I did an internship in NYU in um New York. And um two days prior, came to New York, two days prior to the World Trade Center cat catastrophe and then worked World Trade Center catastrophe. Um during this, met my husband and decided that um it was easier for me to stay in the United States than him coming over to Germany. So with all of this tumultuous activity, um it was the World Trade Center that got um me into cardiology away from cardiothoracic surgery. And um ever since then, um I've n nothing had no regrets um and only um an extreme satisfaction practicing cardiology. So I treat every patient individually. Um trying to practice individual medicine. Um on the basis of guideline based medicine, I feel we have to see the patient as a whole and understand every single aspect of their life in order to treat underlying heart issues. Um I think it's important that you listen to the patient that you establish a good relationship. Um I'm a guidance counselor when it comes to cardiology. So I do not fault my patients if they make different choices, but I try to work with them. So this is more a partnership than a teacher, student relationship. Um And I'm hoping that, you know, there's always several option in cardiology that will bring you to the same goal and with your uh with a patient's individual experience, um we sometimes have to go multi multiple ways around in order to come to the same goal. And I'm willing to take that time and work with my patient. So we are trying to um combat maternal mortality. Currently, we're really in the trenches right now, trying to combat maternal mortality during and after delivery and later on in life. Um So I hope we're really making a big community impact. We have lots of community projects going on. I I'm very proud of the group I'm working with. I'm really hoping I'm gonna make a difference in our transgender community. I really think there's many more treatment options that we need to um find and uh discover. I also um I'm trying to establish um for postural tachycardia syndrome, a pathway of treatment um since there's a giant need for this population in our community. Um And I hopefully, uh Sana has been wonderful um to all of these projects. And I think um we're finding ways to helping our community in many more ways.
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