St. Joseph’s Health announced Dr. Krishna Patel has joined its cardiac surgery team at its St. Joseph’s Health Cardiovascular Institute.

A highly skilled surgeon, Dr. Patel returns to Central New York following a three-year Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency at Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Patel earned his medical degree from Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School in Newark, N.J., and his undergraduate degree in biology from the College of New Jersey. He completed a fellowship in immunotherapy and surgical oncology at the surgery branch of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and a categorical surgery residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester. During his time in Rochester, Dr. Patel served on the Graduate Medical Education Committee and Joint Committee on Quality of Care. He is also a contributing author of several research publications.

St. Joseph’s Cardiovascular Institute is located at 104 Union Avenue, Suite 806, Syracuse.