Shikha Jha, MD

Shikha Jha, MD, is chief interventional cardiology fellow at Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital (Royal Oak, MI). Originally from Nepal, she studied medicine at the National Medical College in Birgunj and moved to the US for postgraduate medical education at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA).

Jha trained in internal medicine at Saint Peter’s University Hospital (New Brunswick, NJ) and completed her cardiovascular medicine fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her main research interests are intracoronary imaging, cath lab quality improvement, ACS, and women’s heart disease. Jha holds a deep passion for education and leadership. She is an interventional cardiology council member for CardioNerds where she previously was an academy ambassador for the University of Wisconsin; also she serves as a key member of the Women in Cardiology National Leadership Council Section of the American College of Cardiology.

Jha enjoys volunteering and fundraising for causes close to her heart, including philanthropy. She believes in the core values of discipline, kindness, compassion, integrity, and humanity. Outside of the cath lab, Jha enjoys drawing and sketching, poetry, dancing, and exercising. Jha’s core mantra for life is: “What we earn is living, what we learn is life.”