Ajit Kuruvilla MD

Ajit Kuruvilla, MD, is at an intensivist and attending physician in pulmonary medicine at Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, MD, where he serves as Assistant Medical Director of critical care.

Various leadership positions include chair, Department Medicine and chair, Medical Peer Review Committee at Shady Grove Medical Center.  

Dr. Kuruvilla earned his medical degree from the College of Medicine at University of Lagos in Nigeria. He completed an internship at the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital in Nigera, his residency at the Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, and a research fellowship in the Department of Neurology with the NYU Medical Center. He also completed a residency in internal medicine at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Georgetown University Medical Center.