Jay Giri, MD MPH is an Interventional Cardiologist, Section Chief of Interventional Cardiology, Director of the Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratories at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality & Evaluative Research Center, Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, and Associate Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine.His clinical interests include complex coronary artery intervention, venous thromboembolism, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, and endovascular denervation therapies. He performs clinical outcomes and comparative effectiveness research related to emerging endovascular technologies and interventional pharmacotherapies as well as health services, policy, and economics research related to cardiovascular medicine as principal investigator of the Giri-Nathan Cardiovascular Health Services & Policy Research Laboratory (https://www.med.upenn.edu/giri-nathan-lab/). He also leads several multi-site international clinical trials evaluating novel interventional therapies. He is the author of over 300 original research manuscripts, invited reviews, textbook chapters, and editorials. He is a frequent lecturer at major international scientific congresses including the Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, and Transcatheter Therapeutics (TCT). He has led original research studies published in JAMA, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Circulation among others. His research has been continuously funded since 2012 by several entities including the National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the US Veterans Administration, the Penn Institute for Precision Medicine, and various industry partners. He serves on the editorial boards for Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions, Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Vascular Medicine, and JSCAI.

He has received numerous teaching awards from postgraduate residents and fellows at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine including the Fellows Award for Interventional Cardiology Teaching 5 times, the 2015 Mark Josephson CV Division Fellows Teaching Award, and the 2017 Donald Martin Department of Medicine Teaching Award.

In 2017, he was selected as one of 12 interventional cardiologists under 10 years in practice worldwide for the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions’ Emerging Leader Mentorship (ELM) Fellowship. He was the recipient of the 2019 Transcatheter Therapeutics (TCT) Thomas J. Linnemeier Spirit of Interventional Cardiology Young Investigator Award, given to one interventional cardiologist worldwide under age 40 for academic and clinical excellence.

Dr. Giri has been instrumental in the founding of multiple multi-disciplinary, multi-site programs within Penn Medicine including the acute pulmonary embolism response team, the chronic pulmonary embolism program, the complex coronary & chronic total occlusion (CTO) program, and the endovascular denervation program. He has successfully integrated the clinical, educational, and clinical research infrastructure for several interventional cardiology and structural heart disease programs across 7 hospitals and has led a greater than doubling of the interventional cardiology faculty at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Giri earned a BA in Economics, a Masters in Public Health, and a Doctorate in Medicine from Northwestern University over 7 years as a member of the accelerated Honors Program in Medical Education. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and proceeded to complete fellowships in cardiovascular diseases, coronary and structural heart intervention, and vascular medicine/intervention at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts General Hospital.