Dr. Malhotra is a cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Malhotra graduated from Harvard College in chemistry and physics and obtained a master’s degree in chemical biology from Harvard.  He received his medical degree from the Health Sciences and Technologies Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT.  Dr. Malhotra completed residency in internal medicine and fellowship in general cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  He then trained as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Kenneth Bloch, studying vascular biology.  In addition to his role as Associate Program Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, Dr. Malhotra currently serves as Associate Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Associate Director of the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.  He is a faculty member in the Cardiovascular Research Center and maintains an affiliation with the Broad Institute. His research interests include vascular biology, genetic and molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis and vascular calcification, pulmonary hypertension, and exercise physiology. In the cardiopulmonary exercise laboratory, Dr. Malhotra studies vascular response patterns to exercise in patients with heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Malhotra’s work has resulted in over 140 publications and has been supported by awards from the NIH, the Leducq Foundation, American Heart Association, the Wild Family Foundation, George Mason University, and the Hassenfeld Foundation. Dr. Malhotra has over a decade of dedication to teaching and mentorship as evidenced by receiving the Roman W. DeSanctis Clinical Scholar Award, the MGH Department of Medicine Fellows Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, the Harvard Medical School Junior Faculty Excellence in Mentoring and Advising award, the MGH Outstanding Principal Investigator Mentor of Graduate Students award, and has been a four-time recipient of the Brian McGovern Memorial Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching.