Chief of Cardiology
University of Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, United States
Dinesh Kalra, MD, is Chief of Cardiology at the University of Louisville (UofL) Medical Center in Louisville, KY, and is a Tenured Professor of Medicine and Radiology at the UofL School of Medicine. He also serves as Vice Chair for Quality in the Department of Medicine. At UofL Hospital, he is on the Board of Directors, Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee for Cardiology, and serves as a Director on the Heart Board for the Cardiovascular Service Line. He holds an Endowed Chair position in the Jewish Hospital Cardiovascular Innovation Institute and serves as the Governor of the KY chapter of the ACC.
Dr. Kalra is an international expert in multimodality cardiac imaging, as well as preventive cardiology and lipidology. His clinical and research interests are in coronary plaque regression, cardiac CT and MR, population-based health and AI, complex dyslipidemias, infiltrative cardiomyopathies such as Fabry, amyloid, sarcoid, and pulmonary hypertension. He is board-certified in Cardiology, Echocardiography, CT, CMR, Lipidology, and Nuclear Cardiology.
He is president-elect of the NLA, BOG-chair elect for the ACC and is also a member of the education committees for the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) and on the Joint Performance Committee, Scientific Publications committee, and the Research Committee for the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA). He also serves on the National Lipid Association Publications Committee and Science Committees. He is a member of the National Quality Forum in Washington, DC.
Dr. Kalra has published over 300 scholarly articles (H-index of 48), many abstracts, and book chapters, and has lectured internationally on lipids, cardiac imaging, plaque regression, Fabry, and Amyloid. He is a consultant for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, and the Journal of Clinical Medicine, and is on the editorial boards of several other journals. Dr. Kalra has consistently ranked on the Top 100 Doctors list and is recognized for his excellence in Cardiology by Crain's Business Review and Castle Connolly. The ACC awarded the 2025 Gifted Educator Award to Dr. Kalra for his exemplary teaching and mentoring skills. He also received the Best Faculty Award from UofL fellows for 2023,2024, and 2025, and the Kentucky Medical Association Educational Achievement Award in 2025.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Thursday, February 5, 2026
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
