Committee Biography

Dr. Ahmed Bafadel, MD, is a cardiology consultant in the Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Bafadel has worked as an advanced cardiovascular imaging fellow in Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. Dr. Bafadel was trained in internal medicine at Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He completed his cardiology fellowship at Libin Cardiovascular Institute in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. After, Dr. Bafadel worked as a teaching faculty and a cardiologist at King Saud Medical School, in Saudi Arabia, where he was involved in cardiology fellowship program for training cardiology specialists. He moved after to the United State to get the experience of advanced cardiovascular imaging at the Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA where he was trained in structural 3D Echocardiography guidance of percutaneous valve implantation, Nuclear Cardiac Imaging and Cardiovascular CT. His research on transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and nuclear cardiology has been presented in international cardiac conferences. Dr. Bafadel is board certified by both the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in cardiovascular disease, as well in internal medicine. He also holds board certifications for cardiac multimodality imaging including echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT.