Monica Ahluwalia, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Monica Ahluwalia MD, FACC received her MD at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School with Distinction in Research, and completed her Internal Medicine Residency, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania, NYU School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, respectively, where she received the Baughman Award of Clinical Excellence. Dr. Ahluwalia is currently an Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Staff Cardiologist at the Boston Medical Center Boston, MA where she is medical director of the Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases Program. She is also an Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Her current research interests include studying the use of machine learning to detect hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and develop enhanced risk stratification tools among diverse populations in collaboration with data scientists to help mitigate healthcare disparities. Outside the University, she is a member of societies including American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and Heart Failure Society of America.

Publications

  • Published 4/25/2025

    Ahluwalia M, Sehgal S, Lee G, Agu E, Kpodonu J. Disparities in Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools Among Diverse Minority Populations: Biases, Barriers, and Solutions. JACC Adv. 2025 May; 4(5):101742. PMID: 40286381.

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  • Published 11/6/2024

    Ahluwalia M, Liu J, Olivotto I, Parikh V, Ashley EA, Michels M, Ingles J, Lampert R, Stendahl JC, Colan SD, Abrams D, Pereira AC, Rossano JW, Ryan TD, Owens AT, Ware JS, Saberi S, Helms AS, Day S, Claggett B, Ho CY, Lakdawala NK. The Clinical Trajectory of NYHA Functional Class I Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. JACC Heart Fail. 2025 Feb; 13(2):332-343. PMID: 39520446.

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  • Published 10/25/2024

    Almadani A, Sarwar A, Agu E, Ahluwalia M, Kpodonu J. HCM-Echo-VAR-Ensemble: Deep Ensemble Fusion to Detect Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Echocardiograms. IEEE Open J Eng Med Biol. 2025; 6:193-201. PMID: 39698121.

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  • Published 8/14/2023

    Ahluwalia M, Kpodonu J, Agu E. Risk Stratification in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Provide Guidance in the Future. JACC Adv. 2023 Sep; 2(7):100562. PMID: 38939491.

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  • Published 1/1/2023

    Sehgal S, Subramanyam P, Ahluwalia M, Rastogi A, Bergman G. Transcatheter mitral valve implantation: Implications of interventional technique and 3D echocardiography for complex valve-in-valve paravalvular leak. Ann Card Anaesth. 2023; 26(2):227-231. PMID: 37706394.

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