Sanjog Kalra

Dr. Sanjog Kalra was born and raised Canada to parents of India origin. Following graduate studies at the University of Toronto in Clinical Pharmacology, Dr. Kalra completed his Doctor of Medicine (MD) training at the University Calgary. He returned to the University of Toronto in 2008 for Internal Medicine training before moving to Halifax for his Adult Cardiology Fellowship at Dalhousie University and finally back to Toronto for Advanced Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention at St. Michael’s Hospital. Finally, in 2015 Dr. Kalra moved to New York, USA to train under worldwide leaders in the field as the first Complex, High-Risk (and Indicated) Patient (CHIP) fellow at Columbia University Medical Center. During his CHIP fellowship, Dr. Kalra gained expertise in complex and high-risk coronary interventions, chronic total occlusion PCI, contemporary hemodynamic support implantation and management and cardiac critical care.

Dr. Kalra recently completed his tenure as the Director of Complex Coronary Therapeutics and the Associate Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He returned to Canada in September, 2020 to take up a position at The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital as an Interventional Cardiologist and Cardiac Critical Care Physician where his academic and clinical priorities include clinical teaching and the development of a leading complex coronary therapeutics program. Dr. Kalra also actively engages in clincal research focused on techniques and outcomes of chronic total occlusion intervention and the contemporary cardiogenic shock therapies. He is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in the area of complex coronary revascularization, modern hemodynamic support therapies and in the management of cardiogenic shock.