Alvin Chandra, M.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School Departments Internal Medicine You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Alvin Chandra, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Division of Cardiology. Dr. Chandra earned his medical degree, completed internal medicine residency training, and completed a general cardiology fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He then received additional fellowship training in cardio-oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a research fellowship in cardiovascular imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, he returned to UT Southwestern, joining the faculty in 2019. Dr. Chandra is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Heart Association, the European Society of Cardiology, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and the American College of Cardiology. He has served as a reviewer for several journals, including Circulation, European Heart Journal, and Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. He also serves on the cardiac events classification committee for the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Dr. Chandra has delivered presentations internationally and published several academic articles. His research focuses on improving quality of life in patients with heart disease, as well as on primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, with a special focus on the cancer population. Education Medical School UT Southwestern Medical School (2012) Residency UT Southwestern Medical Center (2015), Internal Medicine Fellowship UT Southwestern Medical Center (2017), Cardiology Fellowship Brigham and Women's Hospital (2019), Cardiac Imaging Research Interest Cardiac Imaging-based Endpoints in Clinical Research Epidemiology of Heart Failure Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Risk Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease in Cardio-oncology Publications Cardiac function surveillance practices and outcomes in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer treated with trastuzumab: a retrospective cohort study across a safety-net and tertiary care setting Huang L, Manthena P, Su M, Chandra A, Sadeghi N Cardio-Oncology 2025 Dec 11 Global Longitudinal Strain: A Potential Noninvasive Tool for Early Detection of Radiation-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction in Patients With Lung Cancer Receiving Thoracic Radiation Therapy Montalvo SK, Lue B, Kakadiaris E, Ahn C, Zhang-Velten E, Aliru M, Lu W, Westover KD, Iyengar P, Timmerman RD, Zaha VG, Vallabhaneni S, Zhang K, Chandra A, Alluri PG International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2025 Sep 123 221-227 Reduced Right Ventricular Size and Function in Adolescents and Adults Born Preterm Blair ZW, Chandra A, Barton GP, Solano NS, Berry JD, Goss KN Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 2025 Jul 38 615-623 Prevalence and Predictors of Subclinical Cardiomyopathy in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in a Health System Nagori A, Segar MW, Keshvani N, Patel L, Patel KV, Chandra A, Willett DW, Pandey A Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology 2025 May 19 699-704 m-Health Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program for Management of Older Patients With HFpEF: A Pilot RCT Subramanian V, Betts T, Segar MW, Patel L, Keshvani N, Chandra A, Pandey A JACC: Heart Failure 2025 Apr 13 653-656 Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Myocarditis and Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Author Collaboration II, Chen YC, Dolladille C, Rao A, Palaskas NL, Deswal A, Lehmann L, Cautela J, Courand PY, Hayek S, Zhu H, Cheng RK, Alexandre J, Baldassarre LA, Roubille F, Laufer-Perl M, Asnani A, Ederhy S, Tamura Y, Francis S, Gaughan EM, Johnson DB, Flint DL, Rainer PP, Bailly G, Ewer SM, Aras MA, Arangalage D, Cariou E, Florido R, Peretto G, Itzhaki Ben Zadok O, Akhter N, Narezkina A, Levenson JE, Liu Y, Crusz SM, Issa N, Piriou N, Leong D, Sandhu S, Turker I, Moliner P, Obeid M, Heinzerling L, Chang WT, Stewart A, Venkatesh V, Chandra A, Zhang KW, Zaha VG JACC: CardioOncology 2025 Apr 7 234-248 Reframing the role of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists in cardiovascular medicine Inciardi RM, Chandra A, Pandey A, Metra M ESC Heart Failure 2025 Apr 12 923-926 Clinical Correlates and Prognostic Impact of Cognitive Dysfunction in Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction: Insights from PARAGON-HF Shen L, Dewan P, Ferreira JP, Cunningham JW, Jhund PS, Anand IS, Chandra A, Chiang LM, Claggett B, Desai AS, Gong J, Lam CS, Lefkowitz MP, Maggioni AP, Martinez F, Packer M, Redfield MM, Rouleau JL, Van Veldhuisen DJ, Zannad F, Zile MR, Solomon SD, McMurray JJ Circulation 2024 Dec 150 1913-1927 Cardiac mechanics and the risk of atrial fibrillation in a community-based cohort of older adults Inciardi RM, Wang W, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Selvaraj S, Gonçalves A, Zhang MJ, Chandra A, Prasad NG, Skali H, Shah AM, Solomon SD, Chen LY European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging 2024 Dec 25 1686-1694 The RIGHT Way of Assessing Structural Changes Rather Than What Is LEFT Over? Lee AY, Chandra A JACC: Asia 2024 Dec 4 938-939 Results 1-10 of 59 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Honors & Awards Best Research Article by Internal Medicine ResidentUT Southwestern Medical Center (2015) Professional Associations/Affiliations American College of Cardiology (2015) American Heart Association (2014) American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (2017) European Society of Cardiology (2018)
