Lokesh B. Gowda earned his medical degree at Bangalore Medical College in Bangalore, India. Dr Gowda completed an internship at Bangalore Medical College and his residency at Coney Island Hospital. He completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular diseases and Interventional Cardiology at Maimonides Medical Center and Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He is also board certified in Nuclear Cardiology by the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology and in Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography Certification. He is a member of the American Medical Association.  He served as the Chief Fellow in Cardiovascular diseases at Coney Island hospital in Brooklyn, New York.