Saket Girotra, M.D.

Biography

Saket Girotra, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and complex PCI, and mechanical circulatory support.

Dr. Girotra earned his medical degree at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and received advanced training through fellowships in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at the University of Iowa. He served as Chief Cardiology Fellow there from 2010 to 2011. Dr. Girotra also earned a master’s degree in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Certified in cardiology and interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine, he joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2022. Before joining UT Southwestern, he served as Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City and was a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Girotra is a member of the American College of Cardiology, where he serves on the Interventional Section of the Council of Clinical Cardiology. Also a member of the American Heart Association (AHA), he serves on its Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Council. He previously was Chair of the Research Task Force for the AHA’s Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation Committee and is currently a member of the Resuscitation Systems of Care Advisory Work Group. He has also served as a member of the Writing Committee for the AHA’s scientific statement and guidelines for cardiac arrest.

He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Heart Association and an editorial board member for Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for many other scholarly journals.

Dr. Girotra leads a robust research program that focuses on improving care delivery for cardiac arrest, cardiovascular and peripheral artery disease, and diffusion of new technology. His research is supported through extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Service. A prolific researcher and author, Dr. Girotra’s publications include numerous peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, and Circulation. He has also authored multiple book chapters, including Cardiology: An Illustrated Textbook.

Dr. Girotra has received numerous awards throughout his career.