Avinash A. Kothavale, MD, earned his MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1999 and his Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 1994. He completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2002. He completed an Echocardiography fellowship at UCSF and a Cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center /Harvard Medical School in Boston, before joining us in 2006. Dr. Kothavale is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Nuclear Cardiology, and Echocardiography. He has advanced training in cardiac MRI, and has founded the SMG Cardiac MRI Center. He also serves as Chairperson of the Research Review Comittee which manages clincial trials at Summit Medical Group.