Yousif Ahmad
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Biography
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 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.
Education & Training
- FellowshipCedars-Sinai Medical Center (2021)
- FellowshipColumbia University Medical Center (2020)
- PhDImperial College London, Aortic and Coronary Physiology (2019)
- FellowshipImperial College London (2016)
- FellowshipImperial College London (2016)
- BMBSThe University of Nottingham, Medicine and Surgery With Honors (2009)
- BMedSciThe University of Nottingham (2007)
Activities
- Calcium, Calcium and More CalciumPhoenix, AZ, United States 2023TVT 2023 (The Structural Heart Summit)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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SCAI 30 in their 30s award | Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) | 2023 |
Young Leadership Recognition Program | Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) | 2021 |
ACC Young Author Achievement Award | American College of Cardiology | 2019 |
Samuel A. Levine Early Career Clinical Investigator Award | American Heart Association | 2018 |
President's Medal (finalist) | Royal Society of Medicine | 2018 |
Best Abstract/Young Investigator Award | EuroPCR | 2018 |
Best Abstract | British Cardiac Society | 2016 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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JSCAI | Editorial Board | 2021 - Present |
Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine | Editorial Board | 2021 - Present |
Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting | Faculty Member | 2021 - Present |
Transcatheter Valve Therapeutics (TVT) meeting | Faculty Member | 2021 - Present |
European Heart Journal | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
Circulation | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
EuroIntervention | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
BMJ | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
Journal of the American Heart Association | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
American Heart Journal | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
American Journal of Cardiology | Reviewer | 2019 - Present |
EuroPCR meeting | Faculty Member | 2019 - Present |
Departments & Organizations
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Complex High-Risk Interventional Procedures (CHIP) & Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Program
- Internal Medicine
- Yale Medicine