Ankur Kalra
Ankur Kalra is an Indian interventional cardiologist and research scholar specialised in advanced interventional and structural cardiology, cardiovascular disease, and internal medicine.[1][2]
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 Associate Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.[3][4]
Kalra became an entrepreneur in 2018, when he launched his 501(c)3 non-profit startup, makeadent.org on September 16, 2018, which innovates concepts in healthcare. He is the host of an award-winning, top-ranked 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[edit]
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).[5][6][7]
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).[8] 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).[9][10] 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[edit]
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.[citation needed] He has presented late-breaking science at national and international scientific cardiovascular meetings, and has published over 280 scientific manuscripts in various peer-reviewed journals.
Awards and honors[edit]
- 2023 Finalist, Best Clinical Research, EuroIntervention/EuroPCR: Valve-in-valve vs reoperative surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with failed aortic bioprosthesis: insight from Nationwide Readmission Database
- 2022 Most Cited Clinical Research Article, EuroIntervention: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Valve-in-valve vs reoperative surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with failed aortic bioprosthesis: insight from Nationwide Readmission Database
- 2022 Ohio Top Doctors Excellence in Medicine, findatopdoc.com
- Expertscape World Expert in Professional Education
- Best of European Heart Journal Digital Health 2021 - Editors’ choice: Mapping and quantification of the Twitter footprint of cardiologists
- TEDx Speaker: The Science and the Art of a Broken Heart
- The Top 100 Twitter Influencers in Cardiology, AIMS Public Health 2021, Volume 8, Issue 4: 743-753
- 2021 Top Cardiologist, Ohio Magazine
- Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2021 Key Coronary Intervention Abstracts: Invasive versus medical management in patients with chronic kidney disease and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction
- Transcatheter Valve Therapy (TVT) 2021 Featured Clinical Research: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Valve-in-valve vs Reoperative Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Failed Aortic Bioprosthesis: Insight from Nationwide Readmission Database
- 2021 Landmark Session: Late-Breaking Trials Presenter, Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT Virtual) 2021: Off-label use of direct oral anticoagulants in patients receiving mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves: insights from The Society Of Thoracic Surgeons National Database
- JACC Journals Best of 2020, JACC: Case Reports: Voices in Cardiology: The Kardashian Index of Cardiologists: Celebrities or Experts?
- Top Altmetric-scoring CardioPulse Papers of All Time (Rank #1), European Heart Journal: COVID-19 and the Healthcare Workers
- Top Five Papers Published since January 1, 2018 (Rank #1), European Heart Journal: COVID-19 and the Healthcare Workers
- 2020 Sones-Favaloro Excellence in Research Award, Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Department, Cleveland Clinic
- 2020 Scholarship in Teaching Award, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine: Parallax, a medicine (cardiology) podcast show
- High-impact Clinical Research, Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2019 Annual Scientific Sessions: Trends in the use of mechanical circulatory support in the United States: the 2012-2015 National Inpatient Sample
- 2019 Marquis Who's Who Top Doctors
- 2019 Richard E. Clark Memorial Paper, Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- 2018 National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR)/American College of Cardiology (ACC) Travel Award: Electronic health records and outpatient cardiovascular care delivery: insights from the American College of Cardiology’s PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program (PIQIP)
- 2017 Late-Breaking Science Presenter, European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress: Leaflet thrombosis following transcatheter aortic valve replacement: insights from the MAUDE database
- 2017 Award for Clinical Research Excellence, Division of Cardiology, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital: In recognition of clinical research excellence by a Fellow whose efforts were judged to be of the highest standard in terms of originality and impact
- 2017 TCTMD Featured Fellow, tctmd.com
- Fellow, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (FSCAI), 2017–present
- Fellow, American College of Cardiology (FACC), 2016–present.[11]
- Fellowship, American College of Physicians, 2014–present
Selected publications[edit]
Journals[edit]
- Jabri A, Kalra A, Kumar A, Alameh A, Adroja S, Bashir H, Nowacki AS, Shah R, Khubber S, Kanaa'N A, Hedrick DP, Sleik KM, Mehta N, Chung MK, Khot UN, Kapadia SR, Puri R, Reed GW (July 2020). "Incidence of Stress Cardiomyopathy During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic". JAMA Network Open. 3 (7): e2014780. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.14780. PMC 7348683 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32644140 Check|pmid=value (help). - Kalra A, Michos ED, Chinnaiyan KM (August 2020). "COVID-19 and the healthcare workers". European Heart Journal. 41 (31): 2936–2937. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa489. PMC 7314062 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32501476 Check|pmid=value (help). - Mehta N, Kalra A, Nowacki AS, Anjewierden S, Han Z, Bhat P, Carmona-Rubio AE, Jacob M, Procop GW, Harrington S, Milinovich A, Svensson LG, Jehi L, Young JB, Chung MK (September 2020). "Association of Use of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers With Testing Positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)". JAMA Cardiology. 5 (9): 1020–1026. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.1855. PMC 7201375 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32936273 Check|pmid=value (help). - Luong P, Bojansky AM, Kalra A (October 2018). "Academic Physician Compensation in the United States: Should providers' work at academic medical Centres be judged by just one metric, the relative value unit (RVU)?". European Heart Journal. 39 (40): 3633–3634. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehy640. PMID 30346604.
Books[edit]
- Kalra A, Kleiman NS, Barker CM, Reardon MJ (2019). "Valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a repositionable, self-expanding valve.". In Sorajja P. Structural heart cases: a color atlas of pearls and pitfalls. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 978-0-323-55091-8. OCLC 1031849892. Search this book on
- Kalra A, Kleiman NS, Barker CM, Reyes M, Reardon MJ (2017). "Step-by-step guide: transfemoral CoreValve Evolut TAVR.". In Iribarne A, Stefanescu A, Nguyen TC. Transcatheter Heart Valve Handbook. Washington, D.C.: American College of Cardiology Foundation. Search this book on
- Kalra A, Bhatt DL (2017). "Combined drugs and procedure trials.". In Itani KM, Reda DJ. Clinical Trials Design in Operative and Non Operative Invasive Procedures. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-53876-1. Search this book on
References[edit]
- ↑ "Ankur Kalra, MD". Cleveland Clinic. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ↑ "About Ankur Kalra, MD". Make A Dent. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ↑ Anderson C (9 July 2020). "Cleveland Clinic researchers find 'significant' uptick in 'broken heart syndrome' during coronavirus pandemic". Retrieved 2021-02-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Lin-Fisher B. "Stress from coronavirus pandemic leading to severe heart issues, Cleveland Clinic study finds". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ↑ "Ankur Kalra, MD - University Hospitals". cme.uhhospitals.org. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ↑ "Ankur Kalra, MD". TCTMD.com. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ↑ "Ankur Kalra, MD - BroadcastMed". www.broadcastmed.com. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ↑ "Ankur Kalra, MBBS, FACC". American College of Cardiology. Retrieved 2021-02-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Kalra A (July 2017). "Neal S. Kleiman MD: Cardiologist, climber, scientist, survivor". European Heart Journal. 38 (27): 2090–2091. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehx348. PMID 29017287.
- ↑ "Ibadah". Dorrance Bookstore. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ↑ "Ankur Kalra, MBBS, FACC". American College of Cardiology. Retrieved 2021-02-21. Unknown parameter
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