Jagat P. Narula MD, DM, PhD, MACC, FAHA, FRCP

Jagat Narula, MD, Ph.D.; Philip J. and Harriet L. Goodhart Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), and Associate Dean for Global Health at MSSM will also be the Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Program in the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health. Dr. Narula is a nationally and internationally renowned physician-scientist who has contributed immensely to the development of imaging strategies for the identification of patients likely to get heart attacks and those likely to develop symptomatic heart failure, with a focus on prevention.

Dr. Narula earned his MD degree at SMS Medical College in Jaipur, India, and completed a cardiology fellowship and received a Ph.D. degree at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. He relocated to Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School to complete cardiology, heart failure and transplantation, and nuclear cardiology fellowships and was appointed to the faculty. In 1997, Dr. Narula joined Hahnemann University School of Medicine as an endowed professor, Chief of Cardiology, Vice-Chair of Internal Medicine, and Director of the Heart Failure and Transplantation Center.

In 2003, Dr. Narula was recruited to the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, and served as Chief of Cardiology and Associate Dean for Research, as well as Director of the Cardiovascular Center. Dr. Narula was also Director of the affiliated Memorial Heart and Vascular Institute at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, and Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology in UC Irvine’s Engineering School.