Ragavendra R Baliga

Ragavendra R Baliga, MD, MBA, FACC, FRCP (Edin).

Ragaven Baliga is the Director & Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Ohio State University Hospital East [http://www.internalmedicine.osu.edu/article.cfm?id=2745] , Columbus, OH. He is well known for his contributions to medical education (he published his first book 200 Clinical Cases in Medicine when he was just 33 years old) and is the author of several books including 250 Cases in Medicine, Elsevier and Self-Assessment in Clinical Medicine, W.B. Saunders. He is the co-Editor of book, Practical Cardiology, published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is on the editorial board of American College of Cardiology Current Journal Review and Senior Consulting Editor for Heart Failure Clinics of North America, Elsevier. Dr. Baliga is also a co-founder of NextServices.

Ragavendra R Baliga, MD, received his medical degree from St. John's Medical College, Bangalore University, India. He received his Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor. Dr. Baliga’s postgraduate training includes:
* Fellowship, St Mary's Hospital (London), Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, England
* Fellowship, cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Imperial College London, University of London, England
* Fellowship, advanced cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston
* Fellowship, advanced heart failure, Boston University Medical Center
* Fellowship, clinical cardiac transplant, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas