Girish Dwivedi MD, PhD

Dr. Dwivedi completed his MD from the University of Delhi, India, in 1998 and his PhD from the University of Manchester, England, three years later. He then secured one of the most prestigious clinical lectureships in the United Kingdom, the National Institute of Health Research Clinical Lectureship at the University of Birmingham, and was awarded the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Cardiology. He moved to the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in 2011 to obtain further experience in cardiac CT, SPECT and PET imaging techniques, and was awarded the prestigious CIHR Banting Fellowship. He has obtained training and accreditation in echocardiography, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, PET and SPECT. He joined the staff of the Heart Institute in 2013.