Dr. Kalla received his medical degree from Dr. Sampurnanand Medical College, Jodhpur, India. He was then accepted as a postdoctoral cardiology research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA, where he worked on basic and molecular cardiology research. Dr. Kalla went on to complete his internal medicine training at Brown University-affiliated hospitals in Rhode Island, followed by a cardiology fellowship at SUNY Upstate University, Syracuse, NY, and interventional cardiology fellowship training at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He later served as faculty member at both SUNY Upstate University and University of Nevada School of Medicine. Dr. Kalla holds board certifications in interventional cardiology and cardiovascular diseases and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.