Amit Goyal, M.D.

Amit Goyal, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Division of Cardiology. Dr. Goyal is also part of the VA North Texas Healthcare System.

Dr. Goyal holds a bachelor's degree in neuroscience from the University of California, Davis, and a master's degree in clinical research from the University of California, San Diego, where he also earned his medical degree. He completed internal medicine residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and received additional training in general cardiology, and interventional and structural cardiology at Cleaveland Clinic in Ohio.

Board Certified in cardiovascular disease and internal medicine, Dr. Goyal joined the faculty of UT Southwestern in 2023.

In 2019, Dr. Goyal co-founded CardioNerds, an online educational platform established to democratize cardiovascular education. The platform was intended to create and disseminate education; to foster wellness and humanism in the practice of cardiovascular medicine; to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion; to provide mentorship and sponsorship; and to invigorate a love of cardiovascular science. CardioNerds birthed multiple initiatives including the Clinical Trials Network – a fellow-based network aiming to pair equitable trial recruitment with trainee development, CardioNerds Academy – an online school to advance digital medical education, the Healy Honor Roll – a multi-institutional collaboration with 50 cardiovascular fellowship programs for online education, the Medical Journalism Program – a trainee-led journalism source to report on the latest advances in cardiovascular medicine., the CardioNerds Scholarship – a program to support proposals that synergize with its mission by providing funding, mentorship, and sponsorship, the Narratives in Cardiology Series – a grant-funded program to promote diversity and inclusion in cardiovascular medicine, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania ACC Chapter and the ACC Fellows-in-Training Section, and the Cardiology Twitter Journal Clubs (#CardsJC), including in collaboration with HFSA and ASPC.

Underrepresentation of Women in Late-Breaking Cardiovascular Clinical Trials

Holtzman JN, Kaur G, Power JE, Barkhordarian M, Mares A, Goyal A, Gulati M Journal of Women's Health 2023 Jun 32 635-640

Mechanistic Insights into Tricuspid Regurgitation Secondary to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Kassis N, Layoun H, Goyal A, Dong T, Saad AM, Puri R, Griffin BP, Heresi GA, Tonelli AR, Kapadia SR, Harb SC American Journal of Cardiology 2022 Jul 175 97-105

Medical Education in the Digital Era: A New Paradigm for Acquiring Knowledge and Building Communities

Das TM, Kaur G, Nematollahi S, Ambinder D, Shafer K, Sulistio M, Berlacher K, Goyal A JACC: Advances 2022 Jun 1

Letter to the Editor

Belkin MN, Karpenshif Y, Dugan E, Ambinder DI, Desai K, Goyal A Journal of Cardiac Failure 2022 Feb 28 348

Consume, Contribute, and Create: Succeeding as a Learner and Educator in the Digital Era

Kaur G, Ambinder D, Goyal A Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal 2022 18 59-66

Rilonacept for the treatment of recurrent pericarditis

Fava AM, Reyaldeen R, Lo Presti S, Goyal A, Akintoye E, Hughes D, Klein AL Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy 2022 22 7-16

The CardioNerds #CardsJC: How Twitter Journal Clubs Elevate the Scientific Discourse

Dugan E, Ferraro R, Hamo C, Ambinder D, Goyal A Journal of Cardiac Failure 2021 Sep 27 1034-1036

Percutaneous Valve Interventions in Heart Failure

Goyal A, Krishnaswamy A Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine 2020 Nov 22

Preventive Cardiology and Risk Assessment: Beyond LDL

Goyal A, Cho L Current atherosclerosis reports 2020 Oct 22

A diagnostic stewardship intervention to improve blood culture use among adult nonneutropenic inpatients: The DISTRIBUTE study

Fabre V, Klein E, Salinas AB, Jones G, Carroll KC, Milstone AM, Amoah J, Hsu YJ, Gadala A, Desai S, Goyal A, Furfaro D, Zimmerman J, Lin S, Cosgrove SE Journal of clinical microbiology 2020 Oct 58

 Featured Books

Glioblastoma Microvesicles Transport RNA and Proteins, Promoting Tumor Growth. In Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 11

Gonda, D., Goyal, A., Akers, J., Clark, C, Carter, B. (2014). London, Springer Science + Business Media

• Cardiac ICU Fellow of the Year Award (2018)
  
• Excellence in Teaching Award (2018)
  Excellence in Teaching Award
• George G. Glenner Memorial Award (2014)
  
• Michener Grant (2020)
  Leadership Development and Medical Humanities and Arts
• Top Principal Investigator (2022)
  Heart Failure Collaboratory and the Heart Failure Society of America
• Wenger Award (2021)
  Excellence in Medical Innovation

• American College of Cardiology (2017)
• American Heart Association (2017)
• American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (2020)
• CardioNerds (2019)
• Heart Failure Society of America (2022)
• Johns Hopkins Hospital (2018-2019)
• Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (2021)