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Farhan F. Lalani, M.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and is a member of their Division of Hospital Medicine – Parkland Health and Hospital System.

Dr. Lalani is a native Texan and received his medical degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Subsequently, he completed Internal Medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine. He then went to work at Intermountain Healthcare where he was the director of their hypertension program. In this capacity he oversaw the development of a resistant hypertension clinic and helped lead the effort to write new system-wide hypertension guidelines. He then went to work in the Division of Hospital Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. At UCSF, Dr. Lalani helped to build their point-of-care ultrasound program. He was primarily responsible for faculty education in POCUS and has taught at several national CME events.

Dr. Lalani’s interests outside of medicine include his family, playing guitar, rock climbing, surfing, mountain biking, reading, and the great outdoors.

Education: 

• MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
• Residency – Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
• Harvard School of Public Health

Certifications: 

• Board certified in Internal Medicine and Resistant Hypertension
• Certificate, Stanford Clinical Teaching Course October 2017 – December 2017
  Course aimed at improvement in clinical teaching. Topics covered include
  teaching to groups, giving feedback, control of learning environment, etc.
• Certificate, Critical Care Ultrasonography March 2017
  American College of Chest Physicians Completed training in lung, cardiac, vascular, and abdominal ultrasonography
• Board Certification, Clinical Hypertension Specialist July 2014
  American Society of Hypertension

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