I am an interventional cardiologist and a health services researcher. I am passionate about improving quality of care and outcomes for patients with cardiovascular and peripheral artery disease. With funding support from National Institutes of Health and Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development (HSRD), I have developed a vibrant outcomes research program that is focused on cardiac arrest and peripheral vascular disease. A central theme of my research has been to understand the determinants of variation in quality of care across hospitals with the goal of identifying best practices. I am also deeply interested in evaluating diffusion of new technology into healthcare practice and use comparative effectiveness research to quantify the benefit and risks associated with new treatments. My research work has led to several first and senior author publications in prominent journals - NEJM, JAMA, JAMA-Internal Medicine, Circulation, and JACC. I am also the Immediate Past Chair and a member of the Clinical Working Group of the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation task force, and a member of the research and publications committee for the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) and the Cath PCI registry

Ongoing and recently completed projects that I would like to highlight include:

R56HL158803 (PI: Girotra)                           9/2021-8/2022                        3.0 calendar months

NHLBI

Title: Peripheral Artery Disease: Long-term Survival & Outcomes Study

With this 1-year bridge funding, we will implement a novel NLP algorithm developed by our team to assemble one of the largest cohort of patients with peripheral artery disease in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) using 2015-2020. In future studies, we will follow this cohort longitudinally to determine the trajectory of long-term survival and clinical outcomes, assess the impact of existing treatments on PAD outcomes, and compare how PAD management compares with existing standards.

R01 HL 160734 (PI: Girotra, Chan)              4/2022-3/2026                        2.8 calendar months

(NHLBI)
Reducing Ethnic-racial Disparities in Cardiac Arrest Survival Outcomes (RED-CASO)
This is a mixed-methods study that will identify top-performing EMS agencies that work in predominantly Black and Hispanic communities and identify strategies used by these EMS agencies for achieving high pre-hospital survival. Insights gained from this work will help identify best practices for improving cardiac arrest survival and reducing racial and ethnic disparities

R01HL166305 (PI: Girotra)  (PENDING)      7/2023-8/2022                        3.0 calendar months

NHLBI

Title: Peripheral Artery Disease: Long-term Survival & Outcomes Study

With this 1-year bridge funding, we will implement a novel NLP algorithm developed by our team to assemble one of the largest cohort of patients with peripheral artery disease in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) using 2015-2020. In future studies, we will follow this cohort longitudinally to determine the trajectory of long-term survival and clinical outcomes, assess the impact of existing treatments on PAD outcomes, and compare how PAD management compares with existing standards.

I21HX002365 (PI: Girotra)                            01/2018 – 7/2019                    3.0 calendar months

VA HSR&D Pilot Grant

Natural Language Processing to Develop A Registry of Peripheral Artery Disease In Veterans
The overall objective of this pilot grant is to develop and validate an automated algorithm to identify patients with PAD in administrative data with a high degree of accuracy, which would facilitate the development of a nationwide PAD registry in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).