Denisse Sangha, MD is Board Certified in Cardiology and practices at Stephen Carey Cardiology and Associates in New Braunfels, Texas. She is fluent in English and Spanish.
Dr. Sangha completed a Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, where she also worked as a cardiopulmonary technician in her senior year—a job that would influence her decision to practice cardiology. Dr. Sangha then spent a year and a half contemplating medical school in the office of the mayor of Shreveport, serving as a liaison for the Latino community, and working as an assistant editor and correspondent for a local Spanish/English lifestyle radio program.
While completing her medical degree from Ross University and completing clinical rotations throughout the United States, Dr. Sangha’s mission to Zambia with the Institute of International Medicine and her previous volunteer work in El Salvador inspired her to pursue additional graduate degrees in public health and business administration from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. “Having seen the need worldwide, I expected someday I would open my own clinic and would have to know how to run a business,” says Dr. Sangha.
During her internal medicine residency at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Dr. Sangha considered specializing in infectious diseases, based on her mission work in developing countries. Ultimately, though, a confluence of factors led her to cardiology: great fellows during residency; her appreciation for cardiac physiology, the value of prevention and education, the efficacy of medications and interventions to improve the quality of life for patients with heart disease—and her exposure to cardiology as a tech years before. “For a year and a half I performed EKGs that I couldn’t read and that bothered me, but I would hand them to a woman cardiologist I saw as a role model,” says Dr. Sangha.