Dr. Ravi Rasalingam

Biography

Ravi Rasalingam is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. He obtained his MBChB from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Rasalingam completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Rochester, New York, followed by a Cardiology Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania. He serves as a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and is a staff cardiologist at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Recognized for his excellence in training physicians in echocardiography, he has held faculty positions at Washington University in St. Louis and was the inaugural editor of the Washington Manual of Echocardiography. His clinical expertise includes echocardiography, advanced cardiac imaging, and valvular heart disease. His research interests primarily focus on the novel application of echocardiographic techniques for the early detection of coronary artery disease and assessing patients with mechanical devices in support of heart failure.

Research Interests