Ankur Kalra
Ankur Kalra is an Indian interventional cardiologist and research scholar specialised in advanced interventional and structural cardiology, cardiovascular disease, and internal medicine. He is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Medical Director of Interventional Cardiology Quality and Innovation at Indiana University Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Krannert Cardiovascular Research Center. Kalra served as an interventional cardiologist in the Section of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology (January 2019 - December 2021) and Medical Director of Clinical Research in the Section of Regional Cardiovascular Medicine (December 2020 - December 2021) at Cleveland Clinic. He was also the Associate  Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Kalra became an entrepreneur in 2018, when he launched his 501(c)3 non-profit startup, makeadent.org on September 16, 2018, which innovates applications and programs in healthcare worldwide. He is the host of a popular cardiology podcast show, Parallax, produced by Radcliffe Group (Wooburn Green, UK) in association with makeadent.org. He is also the author of his maiden poetry book, "Ibadah" that was released on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and launched in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic Arts and Medicine Institute on Valentine's Day, 2020. Education. Ankur Kalra obtained his  graduate medical education (MBBS) at Indira Gandhi Medical College (Shimla, India) in 2005. Later in 2009, he left medical training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS (New Delhi, India) to pursue further training in the United States of America. In 2012, he completed residency in internal medicine from Cooper University Hospital (Camden, NJ). Kalra became a fellow in cardiovascular disease at Hennepin County Medical Center and Minneapolis Heart Institute (Minneapolis, MN), clinical fellow in interventional cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA), and a clinical fellow in medicine at the Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA ). He then completed a year of advanced interventional and structural cardiology fellowship at Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston, TX). He has completed a 1-year certification program in Patient Safety, Healthcare Quality, Health Informatics and Leadership from Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA). He is currently pursuing a Master of Science program in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK). Research and career. Kalra’s research interests and specialties include Interventional Cardiology, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Clinical Cardiology, Health Economics, Health Policy, Aortic Stenosis, Aortic  Regurgitation, Arterial Diseases - "blocked arteries' and Valvular Heart Disease. He has presented late-breaking science at national and international scientific cardiovascular meetings, and has published over 250 scientific manuscripts in various peer-reviewed journals.