Dinesh Kalra, MD, is Chief of Cardiology and Tenured Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, KY. At UofL Hospital, he serves on the Board of Directors, chairs the Cardiology Quality Assurance Committee, and co-directs the Heart Board for the Cardiovascular Service Line. He holds the Legacy Foundation of Kentuckiana Endowed Chair in the Jewish Hospital Cardiovascular Innovation Institute. He serves as Governor of the KY chapter of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), as well as Chair-elect of the BOG and a Trustee on the ACC Board.

Dr. Kalra is an international expert in multimodality cardiac imaging, preventive cardiology, and lipidology. His clinical and research interests include coronary plaque regression; cardiac CT and MR; population-based health and AI; complex dyslipidemias; and infiltrative cardiomyopathies such as Fabry, amyloid, sarcoid, and pulmonary hypertension. He is board-certified in Cardiology, Lipidology, Echocardiography, CT, CMR, and Nuclear Cardiology. 

He is president of the National Lipid Association (NLA) and a board member of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). He has previously served as a member of the education committees for the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and SCCT and on the Joint Performance Committee, Scientific Publications Committee, and the Research Committee for the ACC and American Heart Association (AHA), as well as on the NLA Publications Committee and Science Committees. 

Dr. Kalra has published over 300 scholarly articles (H-index of 52), many abstracts, and book chapters, and has lectured internationally on lipids, cardiac imaging, plaque regression, Fabry disease, and Amyloidosis. He is Editor-in-Chief of JACC: Advances and has served previously as a consultant for JACC (Journal of the American College of Cardiology), Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, and the Journal of Clinical Medicine, and 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 through 2026, and the Kentucky Medical Association Educational Achievement Award in 2025.