Raj Janardhanan
Director
University Medical Center
Tucson, Arizona
Biography
Dr. Janardhanan is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Imaging at the Banner-University Medical Centre in Tucson, Arizona. He is the Director of Echocardiography as well as the Medical Director, Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging. He is a also a member of the Sarver Heart Centre.After undergraduate medical training in India, he had extensive clinical and research training in the United Kingdom in Non-Invasive Cardiology with Dr. Roxy Senior and Avijit Lahiri. After completion of the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) diploma, he chose to move to the U.S. in 2004 when he was offered the position of Clinical Project Director of the Echocore lab at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University to work with the renowned Dr. Marc Pfeffer and Scott Solomon. He completed a clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of Virginia, followed by training in advanced multi-modality non-invasive imaging working with Dr. Christopher Kramer, George Beller and John Dent.
Research Interest
valvular/structural heart disease, cardiomyopathies, heart failure, chest pain syndromes and cardiac risk screening in athletes