Guru Kowlgi, MBBS, FHRS

Dr. Guru Kowlgi was born in New Delhi, India, and is a graduate of Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University. After completing medical school, he decided to pursue further training in the United States. He joined the internal medicine residency program at the University of Connecticut, followed by a year of chief medical residency. He matched into the cardiology fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where he spent three years in training, including chief cardiology fellowship. Subsequently, he went on to become a clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and was later recruited to stay on staff at the premier institute. He is currently enrolled in a Master of Science program in Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.

Dr. Kowlgi holds certifications with the American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, and the National Board of Echocardiography. He has authored over seventy peer-reviewed publications, been cited over five hundred times, and has presented his research at multiple national conferences. His research interests include novel energy sources of arrhythmia ablation including electroporation and proton beam ablation; cardioneural ablation and autonomic modulation, mechanisms of premature-ventricular contraction-induced-cardiomyopathy, sports cardiology, and the cardiac applications of artificial intelligence. He is a reviewer for many reputed journals, serves on the editorial board of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, and has received faculty invitations to present at the scientific sessions organized by the American College of Cardiology (ACC). Through his training, he has received numerous awards for clinical and academic excellence. Dr. Kowlgi and his two teammates were the winners of the heavily contested Cardiology Jeopardy: Battle of the States organized by the ACC in March 2019.

Dr. Kowlgi has been part of multiple committees and organizations serving on the ACC scientific session planning committee for electrophysiology and as co-chair of the ACC social media action network among many others. He speaks five languages, is a fitness enthusiast, and enjoys weight training and high-intensity interval training. His hobbies include playing drums and guitar. He has been part of two touring music bands and has an active Instagram (@therhythmdoc) and Youtube channel. He uses social media as a platform to disseminate fitness and medical information as well as a creative release for music with over 10,000 followers across platforms.