INDIANAPOLIS,
Indiana – Atul R. Chugh, MD, has joined Indiana Heart Physicians, a Franciscan Physician Network
practice. He will work as a cardiologist at Franciscan Alliance’s Crawfordsville
and Indianapolis hospitals.
He joins a
team of highly regarded physicians, advanced practice providers and other
clinicians, who provide care to patients in Indianapolis, Franklin, Greensburg, Martinsville, Mooresville, Shelbyville and Greencastle.
He received
his medical degree from the University of Pune in Pune, India with clinical
rotations completed at the Harvard Medical School (Boston). He completed a
residency in internal medicine at Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) and
fellowships in hypertensive diseases (University of Chicago) and cardiovascular
medicine (University of Louisville Medical Center).
Dr. Chugh
also was chief fellow of cardiovascular medicine at the University and was a
post-doctoral fellow of advanced cardiac imaging at the Johns Hopkins
University (Baltimore).
A native of
New York City, Dr. Chugh worked as a sub-investigator for Radiant Research in
Chicago; physician and clinical hypertension specialist at the University of
Louisville Medical Center; clinical chief of the Jewish Hospital at the
University of Louisville, director of preventive cardiology and director of
advanced cardiac screening at the University of Louisville; and most recently
was the attending cardiologist at Baptist Health in Lexington.
He has been
published often in professional journals during his career. He has been a
principal investigator with the National Institute of Health (NIH) in 2013; he
won the Faculty Member of the Year Award in the Division of Cardiovascular
Medicine at the University of Louisville, where he also earned the Outstanding
Research Fellow Award. Additionally, he was named one of “Forty Under 40” in
Louisville by Business First.
A Fellow with
the American College of Cardiology, he also is a board member of the Central
Kentucky Chapter of the American Heart Association and the Lexington Cardiac
Research Foundation
Franciscan
Physician Network is a division of the Mishawaka, Indiana-based Franciscan
Alliance. To learn more about network primary and specialty care services in
central Indiana, go to www.FranciscanDocs.org.
