Atasu Nayak, M.D. joined Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in 2004 and is board certified in Interventional Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular disease, Nuclear Medicine, Echocardiography, Vascular Medicine and Endovascular Intervention. He joined Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in 2004 and cares for patients at Kelsey-Seybold’s St. Luke’s Medical Tower and Spring Medical and Diagnostic Center locations.
Dr. Nayak earned his medical degree from Sriram Chandra Bhanja Medical School in India. He completed his internship and residency at Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center in New York. He completed a fellowship in Cardiology at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center and the University of Missouri—Columbia. He completed his Intervention Cardiology Fellowship at Lahey Clinic, Boston in 2003.
Dr. Nayak is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, Vascular Medicine and Endovascular Intervention.
Dr. Nayak has served as a Clinic Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine since 2010. He was Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri—Columbia from 1998 to 2002 and Clinical Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine from 2004 to 2009.
Dr. Prasad’s clinical interests include interventional cardiology, peripheral vascular intervention, carotid artery intervention, vascular medicine, closure of patent foramen ovale(PFO), atrial septal defects(ASD) and interventional research.
Dr. Nayak is a member of the following associations:
Publications
Dr. Nayak has contributed to the following publications:
Myocardial infarction as a presentation of clinical in-stent restenosis. Nayak AK, Kawamura A, Nesto RW, Davis G, Jarbeau J, Pyne CT, Gossman DE, Piemonte TC, Riskalla N, Chauhan MS. Circ J. 2006 Aug; 70(8):1026-9.
A Secondary Prevention Lipid Clinic Reaches LDL-C Goals More Often Than Usual Cardiology Care For Patients With Coronary Heart Disease. Kim K. Birtcher, MS, Anthony J. Greisinger, Brenda J. Brehm, Oscar A. Wehmanen, Loriann M. Furman, Cathryn C. Salinas, Madjid Mirzai-Tehrane,, Atasu Nayak, Haroonur Rashid , Ali Mortazavi. J of Clinical Lipidology Feb 2010.
Submassive pulmonary embolism and paradoxical embolic stroke treated with closure of the patent foramen ovale. Ayman Iskander, Atasu Nayak, Manish S. Chauhan. Cath Cardiovasc Diag, March 2005; 356-360.
Left main coronary artery rotational atherectomy and stenting. Atasu K. Nayak, MD, Richard Davis, MD, PhD, Hanumanth K. Reddy, MD, Muthu S. Krishnan, MD, Donald J. Voelker, MD, Kul Aggarwal, MD. Southern Medical Journal, April 2000; 23:415-423.
“Cardiac manifestations of The Antiphospholipid syndrome. A review” Atasu K. Nayak, Geeta K. Reddy, Missouri Medicine, April 2002;167-178.
Thrombus-in-transit across the Inter-atrial septum: A case of paradoxical embolism. Kul Aggarwal, Vinod K. Jayam, Michael A. Meyer, Atasu K. Nayak, Sriram S. Nathan. Journal of American Society of Echocardiography, June 2002;15.
Minute ventilation sensor driven pacemaker related difficulty in weaning from mechanical ventilation. A case report. Atasu K. Nayak, Kul Aggarwal, Greg C. Flaker. Missouri Medicine, May 2001; 98 (5):181-183.
Superinfection with Rifampin-Isoniazid-Streptomycin-Ethambutol (RISE) - resistant Tuberculosis in Three patients with AIDS: Confirmation by Polymerase Chain Reaction Finger Printing. David L. Horn, Dial Hewlett, Jr., Waltet H. Haas, W. Ray Butler, Celia Alfalla, Edgar Tan, Andrew Levine, Atasu Nayak, Steven M. Opal. Annals of Internal Medicine, 1994; 121: 115-116.
Cerebellar Venous Infarction in Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media. A case report with review of four other cases. Atasu K. Nayak, Dilip Karnad, Madhuri V. Mahajan, Asha Shah, Yogini V. Meisheri. STROKE, 1994; 25:1058-1060.
Metronidazole relieves symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome: the confusion with so-called “chronic amebiasis”. Nayak AK, Karnad DR, Abraham P, Mistry FP. Indian Journal of Gastroenterology. 16(4): 137-9, 1997 Oct.
"Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection" Atasu Nayak, Yash Y. Lokhandwala, P.A. Kale. Journal of Applied Medicine, India..
PUBLICATIONS OF ABSRACTS
In-stent Restenosis presenting as myocardial infarction. Atasu K. Nayak, Gershan Davis, Manish S. Chauhan, David E. Gossman, Thosmas C. Piemonte, Richard W. Nesto. Published as an abstract in Catheter and cardiovascular Interventions, vol. 59, Issue 1, Page 131, May 2003.
Use of glyprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors and vascular complications in aged patients. Manish S Chauhan, Atasu Nayak, Richard W Nesto, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA; Kalon K Ho, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Boston, MA. Published as an abstract in Circulation on line, page 17, May 20, 2003.
Effective treatment of post cardiac transplant hypertension with doxazosin. Atasu K. Nayak, Hanumanth K. Reddy, Donald J. Voelker, Mary Misplay. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Volume 28, no. 6, June 1996.
Primary coronary stenting in acute myocardial infarction is both safe and cost effective. Hanumanth K. Reddy, Atasu K. Nayak, Donald J. Voelker. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Volume 28, no.6, June 1996.
Echocardiographic guided right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy: a safe and easily performed technique. Donald J. Voelker, Atasu K. Nayak, Hanumanth K. Reddy. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Volume 28, no. 6, June 1996.
Ambulatory outpatient coronary stenting using collagen plug is convenient and cost-effective. Donald J. Voelker, Hanumanth K. Reddy, Atasu K. Nayak, Richard Webel, Robert Merrit, Walid Hassan, Rangarao V. Tummala, Muthu S. Krishnan. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology,Vol. 29, No. 6, June 1997.
Influence of age and gender over postcardiac transplant survival. Hanumanth K. Reddy, Atasu K. Nayak, Jack Curtis, Todd Demmy, Mary Misplay. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology,Vol. 29, No. 6, June 1997.
Use of collagen plugs for arterial hemostasis after cardiac catheterization is safe and cost-effective. Hanumanth K. Reddy, Atasu K. Nayak, Donald J. Voelker, Rangarao V. Tummala, Muthu S. Krishnan, Kul Aggarwal. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology,Vol. 29, No. 6, June 1997.
Left main coronary artery stenting and Rotablation: A safe approach to non-surgical and high-risk patients. Richard Davis, Atasu K. Nayak, Hanumanth K. Reddy, Donald J. Voelker, Kul Aggarwal, Muthu S. Krishnan. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology,Vol. 29, No. 6, June 1997.
Elevated levels of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta and Interleukin-6 in Remodelling Human Myocardium. H.K.Reddy, L.C. Katwa, A. K. Nayak, D.J. Voelker, S. Smith. Published as an abstract in Journal of Investigative Medicine, volume 45. No. 7, September 1997.
Intra-aortic balloon pump is superior to inotropes in patients with severe heart failure. Atasu Nayak, Aswartha Pothula, Donald Volelker, Richard Webel, Todd Demmy, Jack Curtis, Hanumanth Reddy. Published as abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology,Vol. 30, No. 7, July 1998.
Allograft Coronary artery disease manifesting as congestive heart failure in cardiac transplant patients. Atasu Nayak, Punit Goel, William Wilson, Jack Curtis and H.K. Reddy. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, June, 2000.
Allograft Cardiomyopathy: A post transplantion entity associated with congestive heart failure. Punit Goel, William Wison, Jack Curtis, Atasu Nayak, H.K. Reddy. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, June, 2000.
Tricuspid Regurgitation in cardiac transplant patients: Etiology, natural history and management. Shantanu Sinha, Hanumanth K. reddy, Punit Goel, Atasu K. Nayak, William Wilson and Jack Curtis. Published as an abstract in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, June, 2000.
Remodelling of coronary arteries in Diabetic patients-An Intravascular Ultrasound study. Santhosh K. G. Koshy, Vinod K. Jayam, Ashwani Bedi, Atasu Nayak, Karan Singh, Hanumanth K. Reddy, Michael Sturek. Published as an abstract. Diabetes, June 2001; A 157:50 (2).