Medical Management
Resume:
Syed Iqbal Rahmatullah
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EDUCATION
**** ********* ******** ***** ** Cardiovascular Diseases. (ABIM)
1997 Diplomate American Board Of Internal Medicine. (ABIM)
1984 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.(MBBS).
Rawalpindi Medical College, University of Punjab, Pakistan.
1977 Secondary and Higher Secondary School Certificate
Islamabad College for Boys, Islamabad, Pakistan.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2009 - onward Head, Section of Adult Cardiology
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center,
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2002 – 2009 Consultant Cardiologist
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center,
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Director, Heart Failure & Transplant Programme
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center,
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Director, Cardiology Fellowship Programme
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2000 – 2003 Assistant Professor Cardiology
Division of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Continuum Heart Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center
University of the Albert Einstein College Of Medicine, NY
Attending Cardiologist, Long Island College Hospital,
Brooklyn, NY. USA
Attending Cardiologist, Long Island Medical College Prospect Park Place, Brooklyn, NY, USA
TRAINING EXPERIENCE
1997-2000 Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship training at the Long Island College Hospital, New York, an affiliate of the State University of New York. (SUNY).
Trained and subsequently credentialed in the following procedures:
a) Stress testing with imaging studies utilising thallium, dobutamine, persantin and adenosine.
b) Stress Echocardiogram.
c) 2-D Echocardiogram with color and doppler studies.
d) Transesophageal Echocardiogram
e) Temporary transvenous pacemaker placement..
f) Cardiac catheterisation, coronary angiogram and left ventriculogram.
g) Swan-Ganz placement and hemodynamic recordings.
h) Cardioversion with conscious sedation.
i) Intraaortic balloon placement.
1994-1997 Residency in Internal Medicine at the Maimonides Medical
Center, New York, an affiliate of the State University of New York. (SUNY)
1991-1994 Resident and (later) chief Resident at Asir Central Hospital Abha Medical College, King Saud University of Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia.
1986-1991 Medical Officer (Resident) Cardiology, Pakistan Institute of
Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan.
1985-1986 House Officer, Internal Medicine, Rawalpindi General Hosp.
University of Punjab, Pakistan.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000 -2003
Assistant Professor, Cardiology,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
- Teaching medical students of the Albert Einstein University
School of Medicine.
- Teaching medical residents and fellows of cardiology at the
Beth Israel Medical Center.
- Teaching medical residents and cardiology fellows at the
Long Island College Hospital.
1994-2000 Participated in the teaching rounds to the medical students at
Maimonides Medical Center,Brooklyn, NY and at the Long
Island College Hospital, NY.
Carried out Advanced Cardiac Life Support program for the residents of Internal medicine, Surgery and Psychiatry.
1991-1994
Participated in teaching cardiology to the students of the Abha
Medical College at the coronary care unit of the Assir Central
Hospital of the King Saud university of Health Sciences, Abha
Saudi Arabia.
1986-1991
Worked as Lecturer Cardiology for nursing students at the post
graduate college of nursing at the Pakistan Institute of Medical
Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan.
PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH
• Managing Heart Failure in the new era: “The state of the Heart review”.
Paper presented at the 2nd International Cardiology Conference, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 2003.
• Separate Origins of all Three Major Coronary Arteries From The Right Sinus of Valsalva: a rare coronary artery anomaly.
July,1998. Cardiology.
• Bifurcating Aneurysm of the Left Main Coronary Artery Involving Left Anterior Descending and Left Circumflex Artery-
A case report.
May, 1999. Angiology.
• Painless Limited Dissection of the Ascending Aorta Presenting with Aortic Valve Regurgitation.
Nov, 1999. American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
• Resolution of ST Segment Elevation after Streptokinase therapy in Anterior versus Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction.
July, 2000. Clinical Cardiology.
• Worsening of Left Ventricular diastolic dysfunction during exercise causes decrease exercise tolerance in hypertension.
Sep, 2000. Clinical Cardiology.
• Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in Pregnancy.
Submitted.
• Stress Induced Rupture of Myxomatous Mitral Valve.
Submitted.
• Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy at a Referral hospital.
Presented at the Cardiology conference at the Pakistan Society of Cardiology meeting.
SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS:
• Fellow, American College of Cardiology
• Member, American College of Physicians.
• Member American Heart Association.
• Ranking member of AHA in Clinical Cardiology.
• Member, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.
• Member, Rawalpindi Medical College Alumni of North America.
HONORS and AWARDS
• Selected as the Reviewer for the American Board of Internal Medicine certification examination in Cardiovascular diseases.(2001-onward).
• Contribute questions for the Diplomate American Board of Cardiology examinations.
• Pfizer “Cardiology Fellow of the Year” award (1998-1999).
• Physician Recognition Award by the American Physician Association (1999-2000)
• Chief Resident Cardiology, Assir Central Hospital, King Saud University of Health Sciences, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
• Member College Literary Society, Rawalpindi Medical College.
• Recipient of the President’s Scholarship Award for two years at the Secondary School Certification examination.
PRESENTATIONS
• Acute Coronary Syndrome: clinical picture, diagnosis and management.
• Aortic Dissections, early diagnosis and management.
• Valvular Heart Disease:
Aortic Stenosis and Regurgitation: etiology, clinical presentations, diagnosis including echocardiogram and management.
• Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome.
Electrocardiogram, the localization of the bypass tract and management.
• Mechanics of The Intact Ventricle.
Concepts of preload, contractility and the afterload.
• Hypertension: JNC VI, manifestations and clinical management.
• Congestive Heart Failure : etiology, clinical manifestations, hemodynamic monitoring and treatment.
• Physical examination of the cardiovascular system.
A review.
• Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction:
An update.
• Vaughan Williams Classification of Antiarrhythmic Drugs in Clinical use, and Drug- Drug interactions.
• Ventricular Tachycardia: diagnosis and management.
• ECG interpretation of Ischaemia and Arrhythmias.
• Pacemakers: Indications, nomenclature, complications and types of permanent pacemakers.
• Diagnostic tests for coronary artery diseases: Imaging, nonimaging, pharmacological and its interpretation.
• Differential diagnosis and work-up of a patient with syncope.
• Management of patients with stable angina--the medical and surgical options.
• Carvedilol in the treatment of congestive heart failure. A comparative analysis with metoprolol.
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