Anita Ajit Kelkar, MD, MPH, FACC
- Assistant Professor, Cardiology

Anita Ajit Kelkar, MD, MPH, FACC
- Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Research Interests
- Patient Reported Outcomes
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Education
- BS, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2006
- MPH, Dartmouth Medical School, 2007
- Residency
- Internal Medicine, Emory University, 2014
- Fellowship
- Cardiology, Emory University, 2017
- Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
- Positions
- Assistant Professor, Cardiology
- Departments and Affiliations
- Cardiology
Research
- Mechanisms Contributing to the Progression of Ischemic and Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Possible Modulating Effects of Paracrine Activities of Stem Cells. Kelkar AA, Butler J, Schelbert EB, Greene SJ, Quyyumi AA, Bonow RO, Cohen I, Gheorghiade M, Lipinski MJ, Sun W, Luger D, Epstein SE. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2015 Nov; 66(18):2038-2047.
- In-hospital worsening heart failure. Butler J, Gheorghiade M, Kelkar A, Fonarow GC, Anker S, Greene SJ, Papadimitriou L, Collins S, Ruschitzka F, Yancy CW, Teerlink JR, Adams K, Cotter G, Ponikowski P, Felker GM, Metra M, Filippatos G. Eur. J. Heart Fail. 2015 Nov; 17(11):1104-13.
- A 15-Year Warranty Period for Asymptomatic Individuals Without Coronary Artery Calcium: A Prospective Follow-Up of 9,715 Individuals. Valenti V, Ó Hartaigh B, Heo R, Cho I, Schulman-Marcus J, Gransar H, Truong QA, Shaw LJ, Knapper J, Kelkar AA, Sandesara P, Lin FY, Sciarretta S, Chang HJ, Callister TQ, Min JK. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Aug; 8(8):900-9.
- Team-Based Care for Managing Cardiac Comorbidities in Heart Failure. Bellam N, Kelkar AA, Whellan DJ. Heart Fail Clin. 2015 Jul; 11(3):407-17.
- Trends in Heart Failure Clinical Trials From 2001-2012. Samman Tahhan A, Vaduganathan M, Kelkar A, Georgiopoulou VV, Kalogeropoulos AP, Greene SJ, Fonarow GC, Gheorghiade M, Butler J. J. Card. Fail. 2016 Mar; 22(3):171-9.