Amit Kalia, MD has been a member of the Board of Directors since January 2006. He is proud to take on a bigger role to help the HCMA continue its mission to support patients and their families affected by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Dr. Kalia's family has been profoundly affected by HCM. When he was 9 years old, his family lost his father. Now, as a father of three, he is hoping to change the effect hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has on families today and in the future.

In 2004, he chose to leave a promising engineering career to pursue medicine. He decided to combine his technical background and desire to make a difference by specializing in minimally-invasive image-guided procedures as an Interventional Radiologist. Dr. Kalia is a former Cleveland Clinic physician now helping to build the Interventional Radiology service at the Miami VA Hospital, with a focus on Interventional Oncology, to serve our veterans.