Esra Kaya
- Postdoctoral Researcher; MD, PhD
After completing cardiology specialization in Turkey, she won Japanese Government Education Scholarship-MEXT and completed her PhD in Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan. Her PhD focused on evaluation of primary mitral valve regurgitation by 3D echocardiography and early progression of tricuspid regurgitation after mitral valve repair. She found that early TR progression was 15% in patients who underwent mitral valve repair surgery for primary mitral regurgitation and age and BMI were independent predictors of early tricuspid regurgitation progression. She won EACVI Research Grant for the year 2020 with her project about left ventricular strain echocardiography and mechanical dispersion in TAVI candidates and began working in Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet. Kaya won the best abstract prize in Norwegian Cardiology Society Spring Meeting 2022 with this project. She is currently working on functional echocardiographic imaging of aorta stenosis patients.