Dinesh K. Kalra, M.D., MBA, FACC, FNLA, FSCCT, FSCMR, FAHA, FASPC

• Professor of Medicine
• Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• Vice Chair for Quality, Department of Medicine
• Jewish Hospital Cardiovascular Innovation Institute Director Chair in Medicine
• Director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging, Lipid Clinic & Infiltrative Heart Disease Program

UofL Physicians Outpatient Center
401 East Chestnut Street, Ste. 310
Louisville, KY 40202

502-852-9505 - Academic Office
502-588-7010 - Patient Appointments

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Featured Publications

• Sagheer U, Bhandari S, Umer M, Peters M, Shotwell M, Liu N, Royer A, Mylarapu A, Kalra DK. Hydropneumopericardium Due to a Traumatic Esophageal-Pericardial Fistula. JACC Case Rep. 2024 May 6;29(12):102357. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102357. PMID: 38751806; PMCID: PMC11090896.
• Peters MG, Apte N, Kalra DK. Wide Complex Tachycardia in a Middle-Aged Woman With Diarrhea. JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Jun 1;9(6):582-583. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.0744. PMID: 38691373.
• Menon T, Kalra DK. Sleep Apnea and Heart Failure-Current State-of-The-Art. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 May 11;25(10):5251. doi: 10.3390/ijms25105251. PMID: 38791288; PMCID: PMC11121476.
• Peters M, Kalra D. Young man with chest pain and an abnormal echocardiogram. Heart. 2024 Apr 15;110(9):656-684. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2024-323886. PMID: 38621770.
• Puri R, Bansal M, Mehta V, Duell PB, Wong ND, Iyengar SS, Kalra D, Nair DR, Nanda NC, Narula J, Deedwania P, Yusuf J, Dalal JJ, Shetty S, Vijan VM, Agarwala R, Kumar S, Vijay K, Khan A, Wander GS, Manoria PC, Wangnoo SK, Mohan V, Joshi SR, Singh B, Kerkar P, Rajput R, Prabhakar D, Zargar AH, Saboo B, Kasliwal RR, Ray S, Bansal S, Rabbani MU, Chhabra ST, Chandra S, Bardoloi N, Kavalipati N, Sathyamurthy I, Mahajan K, Pradhan A, Khanna NN, Khadgawat R, Gupta P, Chag MC, Gupta A, Murugnathan A, Narasingan SN, Upadhyaya S, Mittal V, Melinkeri RP, Yadav M, Mubarak MR, Pareek KK, Dabla PK, Nanda R, Mohan JC. Lipid Association of India 2023 update on cardiovascular risk assessment and lipid management in Indian patients: Consensus statement IV. J Clin Lipidol. 2024 Feb 8:S1933-2874(24)00006-0. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2024.01.006. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38485619.
• Tyagi SC, Pushpakumar S, Sen U, Akinterinwa OE, Zheng Y, Mokshagundam SPL, Kalra DK, Singh M. Role of circadian clock system in the mitochondrial trans-sulfuration pathway and tissue remodeling. Can J Physiol Pharmacol. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):105-115. doi: 10.1139/cjpp-2023-0186. Epub 2023 Nov 18. PMID: 37979203.
• van Rosendael AR, Crabtree T, Bax JJ, Nakanishi R, Mushtaq S, Pontone G, Andreini D, Buechel RR, Gräni C, Feuchtner G, Patel TR, Choi AD, Al-Mallah M, Nabi F, Karlsberg RP, Rochitte CE, Alasnag M, Hamdan A, Cademartiri F, Marques H, Kalra D, German DM, Gupta H, Hadamitzky M, Deaño RC, Khalique O, Knaapen P, Hoffmann U, Earls J, Min JK, Danad I; CONFIRM 2 investigators. Rationale and design of the CONFIRM2 (Quantitative COroNary CT Angiography Evaluation For Evaluation of Clinical Outcomes: An InteRnational, Multicenter Registry) study. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2024 Jan-Feb;18(1):11-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2023.10.004. Epub 2023 Nov 10. PMID: 37951725; PMCID: PMC10923095.
• Gupta K, Hinkamp C, Andrews T, Meloche C, Minhas AMK, Slipczuk L, Vaughan E, Habib FZ, Sheikh S, Kalra D, Virani SS. Highlights of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Studies Presented at the 2023 European Society of Cardiology Congress. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2023 Dec;25(12):965-978. doi: 10.1007/s11883-023-01164-5. Epub 2023 Nov 17. PMID: 37975955.
• Shah AJ, Pavlatos N, Kalra DK. Preventive Therapies in Peripheral Arterial Disease. Biomedicines. 2023 Nov 27;11(12):3157. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines11123157. PMID: 38137379; PMCID: PMC10741180.
• Rout A, Duhan S, Umer M, Li M, Kalra D. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk prediction: current state-of-the-art. Heart. 2023 Nov 2:heartjnl-2023-322928. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2023-322928. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37918900.