Sunil Rao MD

Sunil Rao, MD, FSCAI is Professor of Medicine at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, and the Director of Interventional Cardiology for the NYU Langone Health System in New York, New York. Dr. Rao graduated summa cum laude from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and magna cum laude from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio, where he won the David Saylor Memorial Award for Cardiology Research. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He served as Chief Fellow at The Duke Clinical Research Institute and was the Warren and Gloria A. Newman Fellow in Interventional Cardiology. After his training, Dr. Rao joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and rose to become Professor of Medicine in 2017. In 2005, Dr. Rao became the Director of the Catheterization Laboratories at the Durham Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center, and in 2014, he was appointed Chief of Cardiology at the Durham VA. Dr. Rao has won several awards as an attending physician including the W. Proctor Harvey Award from The American College of Cardiology (2011), the Duke Cardiology Fellows’ Mentoring Award (2013, 2018), and The Duke Clinical Research Institute Robert M. Califf, MD Award for Fellow Mentoring (2020). In 2022, Dr. Rao was recruited to be the Director of Interventional Cardiology for the NYU Langone Health System.