Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, is a U.S. interventional cardiologist who is the Chairman of the Lumen Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives from heart attacks and in creating population-based STEMI networks. He has presaged a new medical specialty of the STEMI Interventionist with his innovative work in performing angioplasty for treating heart attacks, and has pioneered the development of population-based heart attack programs in several countries including China, India, Brazil, Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Egypt, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Colombia.