Chandra Kunavarapu

Chandra Kunavarapu, MD is the Medical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program at Texas Transplant Institute in San Antonio, Texas. He was one of the first physicians to be Board Certified in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.

His expertise in cardiovascular procedures includes transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac catheterizations, cardiopulmonary stress testing, pacemaker/implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation and programming, endomyocardial biopsies, percutaneous ventricular assist device and CardioMEMS™ HR System implantations. His interests along with heart failure and transplant include device therapy in advanced heart failure patients, pulmonary hypertension, cell based therapy and pharmacogenomics of heart failure.

Dr. Kunavarapu completed his adult cardiovascular fellowship training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York and his heart failure and transplant fellowship training at the renowned Columbia-NY Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He served as the medical director of heart failure and transplant program at the Medical College of Georgia, where he successfully started the Heart Transplant program there.

He is an IBHRE-Certified Cardiac Device Specialist (CCDS), demonstrating his expertise in heart rhythm device therapy. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant and the Heart Failure Society of America. He has published several book chapters and articles in peer reviewed journals in the field of heart failure and transplant as well as other areas of cardiology.