Thibodaux Regional Health System announced the addition of Akshit Sharma, MD, interventional cardiologist, to the active medical staff. Sharma has joined the practice of Cardiovascular Institute of the South, 1320 Martin Luther King Drive in Thibodaux.
Sharma earned a doctor of medicine degree from Thanjavur Medical College, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Mo. Additionally, Sharma completed a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases and a fellowship in interventional cardiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
He is board-certified in cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, the Society of Vascular Medicine, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.