Dharam Kumbhani, M.D.

Dharam Kumbhani, M.D., is the Section Chief/Director of Interventional Cardiology and a Professor of Medicine in UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Department of Internal Medicine. He is also the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Clements University Hospital. He holds the Jim and Norma Smith Distinguished Chair for Interventional Cardiology. He specializes in interventional cardiology and valvular heart disease.

Dr. Kumbhani earned his medical degree with honors at the University of Mumbai. He earned a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology at Harvard University before completing an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and cardiovascular training at the Cleveland Clinic. He then completed fellowships in interventional cardiology and advanced structural and endovascular interventions and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he was also an instructor in cardiology.

He brings a strong background in advanced interventional cardiology techniques to UT Southwestern. He helped start the percutaneous valve program at UT Southwestern in 2012. His clinical practice specializes in transradial coronary interventions, percutaneous valve technologies, and other adult structural heart disease interventions.

Dr. Kumbhani is also internationally recognized in the field of outcomes-based and quality-of-care research. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles in medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Circulation, among others. He has received numerous grants for his research, including from the American Heart Association and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He is an elected member of the American College of Epidemiology, the Sigma Xi Research Society, and the U.K.’s Royal College of Physicians.

He is an Associate Editor of Circulation and serves on the Editorial board of Cardiosource for the American College of Cardiology. He served as Co-Chair for the 2017 Expert Consensus Document on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. He has been on the Writing Committee of numerous national guideline and policy documents, including the 2023 ACC/AHA Guideline for the management of patients with Chronic Coronary Artery Disease.

Medical School

University of Mumbai (2002)

Undergraduate School

Harvard School of Public Health (2003), Epidemiology

Residency

University of Pennsylvania Health System (2007), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2010), Cardiovascular Disease

Fellowship

Brigham and Women's Hospital (2011), Interventional Cardiology

Fellowship

Brigham and Women's Hospital (2012), Cardiology

• Application of large national databases to understand disparities in healthcare delivery
• Cardiovascular outcomes research
• Clinical trials
• Vascular medicine

Featured Publications

New Oral Anticoagulants and the Risk of Intracranial Hemorrhage: Traditional and Bayesian Meta-analysis and Mixed Treatment Comparison of Randomized Trials of New Oral Anticoagulants in Atrial Fibrillation.

Chatterjee S, Sardar P, Biondi-Zoccai G, Kumbhani DJ JAMA Neurol 2013 Oct

Adherence to Secondary Prevention Medications and Four-year Outcomes in Outpatients With Atherosclerosis.

Kumbhani DJ, Gabriel Steg P, Cannon CP, Eagle KA, Smith SC, Hoffman E, Goto S, Magnus Ohman E, Bhatt DL Am. J. Med. 2013 Jun

Role of aspiration and mechanical thrombectomy in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary angioplasty: An updated meta-analysis of randomized trials.

Kumbhani DJ, Bavry AA, Desai MY, Bangalore S, Bhatt DL J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2013 May

Resistant hypertension: a frequent and ominous finding among hypertensive patients with atherothrombosis.

Kumbhani DJ, Steg PG, Cannon CP, Eagle KA, Smith SC, Crowley K, Goto S, Ohman EM, Bakris GL, Perlstein TS, Kinlay S, Bhatt DL Eur. Heart J. 2012 Nov

Predictors of Adherence to Performance Measures in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Kumbhani DJ, Fonarow GC, Cannon CP, Hernandez AF, Peterson ED, Peacock WF, Laskey WK, Pan W, Schwamm LH, Bhatt DL Am. J. Med. 2012 Aug

Clinical outcomes after percutaneous revascularization versus medical management in patients with significant renal artery stenosis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Kumbhani DJ, Bavry AA, Harvey JE, de Souza R, Scarpioni R, Bhatt DL, Kapadia SR Am. Heart J. 2011 Mar 161 3 622-630.e1

Association of hospital primary angioplasty volume in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with quality and outcomes.

Kumbhani DJ, Cannon CP, Fonarow GC, Liang L, Askari AT, Peacock WF, Peterson ED, Bhatt DL JAMA 2009 Nov 302 20 2207-13

Lessons from the heart: Troponin elevations in patients with established peripheral artery disease.

de Lemos JA, Kumbhani DJ J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2013 Jun

Same-Day Discharge After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Meta-Analysis.

Brayton KM, Patel VG, Stave C, de Lemos JA, Kumbhani DJ J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2013 Apr

Predictive models for short- and long-term adverse outcomes following discharge in a contemporary population with acute coronary syndromes.

Kumbhani DJ, Wells BJ, Lincoff AM, Jain A, Arrigain S, Yu C, Goormastic M, Ellis SG, Blackstone E, Kattan MW Am J Cardiovasc Dis 2013 3 1 39-52

 Featured Books

Indication and technique of percutanerous coronary interventions

Bavry AA, Kumbhani DJ (Ed.) (2012). London, Springer Healthcare Ltd.

Percutaneous coronary intervention in unstable angina/NSTEMI. In Clinical Decision Support: Cardiology

Kumbhani DJ (2013 in press). Decision Support in Medicine, LLC

Landmark trials in interventional cardiology. In Cardiovascular clinical trials: putting the evidence into practice

Kumbhani DJ, Bhatt DL (2013 in press). New Jersey, Wiley-Blackwell

Optimal long term theraphy of the patient after percutaneous coronary intervention. In Interventional Cardiology

Kumbhani DJ (2011). New York, Oxford University Press

Does volume help predict outcome in surgical disease?. In Advances in Surgery

Khuri SF, Hussaini BE, Kumbhani DJ, Healey NA (2005). Philadelphia, Mosby

• Finalist
  Thomas J. Linnemeier Spirit of Interventional Cardiology Young Investigator Award, TCT (2013)
• First place, Junior Faculty Research
  Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators' Forum (2013)
• Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award
  Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (2012)
• Tomsich Award for Excellence in Research
  Cleveland Clinic (2010)
• Young Investigator Award
  American Heart Association (2010)
• Veterans Affairs Medical Scholar Award
  University of Pennsylvania (2007)
• Jack B. Wallach Scholarship
  Harvard University (2002)

• American College of Cardiology (2007)
• American College of Epidemiology (2008)
• American College of Physicians (2008)
• American Heart Association (2009)
• American Mensa (2008)
• Royal College of Physicians, UK (2012)
• Sigma Xi Research Society (2008)
• Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (2010)