Dinesh K. Kalra, MD, FACC, FAHA, is Chief of Cardiology at the University of Louisville Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at the UofL School of Medicine. He also serves as Vice Chair (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 co-director of 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 American College of Cardiology.

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-health and AI, complex dyslipidemias, infiltrative cardiomyopathies (Fabry, amyloid, sarcoid), and pulmonary hypertension. He is board-certified in Cardiology, Echocardiography, Cardiovascular CT, CMR, and Lipidology. 

Dr. Kalra is the President-Elect of the National Lipid Association and ACC Board of Governors Chair-Elect and incoming Editor-in-Chief of JACC: Advances. He has published over 300 scholarly peer-reviewed articles, several book chapters, and has lectured internationally on lipids, cardiac imaging, plaque regression, Fabry, and Amyloid. 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 Educational Achievement Award from the Kentucky Medical Association (2025) and the AHA’s Discovery Honor in 2026 for his research.