Yousif Ahmad, BMedSci, BMBS, MRCP, PhD, FSCAI, FACC

Yousif Ahmad is an Interventional Cardiologist with specific expertise in treating both chronic total occlusions (CTO) and the most complex coronary lesion subsets, as well as performing structural heart interventions for valvular heart disease. He is the Director of the Yale Complex and High-Risk PCI (CHIP) Program, and the Associate Program Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program.

He completed the majority of his undergraduate and postgraduate medical training in the U.K. where he he was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He undertook his General and Interventional Cardiology training at The Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London and holds a PhD in aortic and coronary physiology at Imperial College London. His thesis focused on the interaction between coronary hemodynamics and aortic stenosis and his research saw him awarded the American Heart Association Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award, EuroPCR Young Investigator Award and American College of Cardiology Young Author Achievement Award.

He then moved to the U.S. for advanced procedural training. He has completed dedicated Advanced Fellowships in CTO and Complex/High Risk PCI and Mechanical Circulatory Support (CHIP Fellowship) at Columbia University and in Structural Heart Disease at Cedars-Sinai. He is one of the only physicians to have completed two such Fellowships. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in journals including The Lancet, JAMA Internal Medicine, Circulation, European Heart Journal and JACC and is regularly invited to speak at leading international conferences.