Ravi Rasalingam

Dr. Ravi Rasalingam is a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School and a staff cardiologist at VA Boston Healthcare. He received his Bachelor of Human Biology and Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He completed Internal Medicine residency at the University of Rochester, New York and Cardiology Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania. Dr. Rasalingam is a clinical educator and has been recognized for excellence by physicians training in echocardiography. While on faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, he was the inaugural editor of The Washington Manual of Echocardiography. His clinical expertise is in echocardiography, advanced cardiac imaging and valvular heart disease. His research interests are broad and primarily focus on novel application of echocardiographic techniques in early detection of coronary artery disease as well as assessment of patients with mechanical devices to support the heart when it fails. He has received a strategic alliance research grant to foster collaboration between groups of investigators across difference disciplines, departments and schools.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
  Cardiology Fellowship Program

• University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
  Internal Medicine Residency Program

• University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
  Internal Medicine Residency Program

• The University of Auckland
  Medical Residency Programs

• The University of Auckland
  MBChB, Medicine