Kirk Noel Garratt MD, MSc, FSCAI

Dr. Kirk Noel Garratt, MD, MSc, FSCAI is a Medical Director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Health and the John H. Ammon Chair of Cardiology within ChristianaCare. He joined ChristianaCare in 2015 with notable clinical, academic, leadership, and research achievements in interventional cardiology. Dr. Garratt is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease with added qualifications in interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM).

He earned his medical degree from the University of California College of Medicine, Irvine, followed by an internship in internal medicine at Los Angeles County-UCLA Harbor Medical Center, a residency in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and fellowships in clinical cardiology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Services and interventional cardiology at Mayo Clinic and Foundation in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr. Garratt spent 17 years at Mayo Clinic and was a member of the team of physicians who first performed minimally invasive heart procedures there, including laser coronary angioplasty, directional coronary atherectomy, and coronary stent implantation.

He completed his time with Mayo Clinic as an associate professor of Medicine, consultant for the Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, and chair of the Department of Cardiology at a Mayo affiliate hospital in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

In 2005, he joined Northshore-LIJ (now Northwell) Lenox Hill Hospital and Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute in New York, serving as staff interventional cardiologist, director of cardiac intervention, director of cardiovascular research, director of the interventional cardiovascular fellowship program, and associate chair of cardiovascular medicine responsible for quality and process improvements. He left Northwell Health System in 2015 with the academic title of Professor of Medicine.