Ankur Kalra

Ankur Kalra is an Indian interventional cardiologist and research scholar specialised in advanced interventional and structural cardiology, cardiovascular disease, and internal medicine.
Kalra serves as an interventional cardiologist in the Section of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology and Medical Director of Clinical Research in the Section of Regional Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, and Section Head of Cardiovascular Research at Cleveland Clinic Akron General. He is also the Associate Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and NEOMED (Adjunct Associate Professor).
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).
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.