My name is Ali Valika, and I am a practicing Advanced Heart Failure Specialist with the Advocate Medical Group. I underwent Internal Medicine training at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, and then Cardiology fellowship at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI. I subsequently did my advanced Heart Failure specialty at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and trained in the care of both heart transplant, pulmonary hypertension, and left ventricular device management. I currently am involved in several clinical research trials, and am the prinicipal investigator of such trials as Respicardia, LAPTOP, RELAX-HF II, to name a few projects that are ongoing.

Dr.Ali Valika Research interests are cardiorenal physiology, and left ventricular recovery.