Dr. Jay Giri

Jay Giri, MD, MPH, is an interventional cardiologist and Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Director of the Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratories at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, and as Director of Peripheral Intervention at Penn. His clinical practice focuses on complex coronary intervention, peripheral and endovascular therapies, and structural heart procedures. Dr. Giri also directs the Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research Center at Penn and is a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research interests center on cardiovascular outcomes and comparative effectiveness, health services and economic evaluation, and health equity and quality in cardiovascular care. Recognized for both clinical and academic leadership, Dr. Giri received the Thomas J. Linnemeier Spirit of Interventional Cardiology Young Investigator Award and was selected for the SCAI Emerging Leader Mentorship program. He also contributes to national scientific statements and consensus efforts across leading cardiovascular organizations. He earned his MD from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and his MPH from Northwestern University, completed his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and pursued fellowships in cardiovascular diseases, coronary and structural heart intervention, and vascular medicine and intervention through the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts General Hospital.