Ankur Kalra (IMAGE) Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation Caption Dr. Ankur Kalra received his MBBS from Indira Gandhi Medical College in Shimla, India in 2006. He did residencies in Internal Medicine at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India and University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, NJ. He received his board certifications in Internal Medicine in 2012, from the American Board of Internal Medicine, and in Adult Echocardiography in 2014, from the National Board of Echocardiography. His research interests include cardiovascular hemodynamics, cardiomyopathies and sudden cardiac death. He has also worked at collaborating US and Indian physicians in critical care medicine through a working group he has co-founded with his colleagues in critical care medicine, the Critical Care Working Group. Director of the Barry J. Maron Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center in New Delhi, India, he is currently working with Dr. Barry J. Maron, an international expert in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, to improve quality of care for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients in India. Dr. Kalra has presented over 25 abstracts at national and international scientific sessions, and published over 25 manuscripts in various peer-reviewed journals. An aspiring interventional cardiologist, Dr. Kalra will begin his interventional cardiology training in 2015 at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. His long-term career goals are to establish a robust ST-elevation myocardial infarction care network in his home city, New Delhi, India. Currently the chief cardiology fellow, Dr. Kalra joined the cardiovascular disease fellowship program at Hennepin County Medical Center and Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in 2012. Credit Dr. Kalra Ankur Usage Restrictions None License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.