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Dr. Seraj Abdullah Abualnaja
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Dr. Seraj Abdullah Abualnaja MBBS, FRCPC

Chairperson, Interventional Cardiologist & Consultant Internal Medicine & Cardiology

Cardiology | 12 years of experience | Speaks Arabic, English

Areas of Expertise:

  • Arrhythmias
  • Cardiac Diagnostic Imaging(echo-CT-MRI)
  • Cardiac Intervention - Coronary Artery Disease
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  • Biography
  • Education & Training
  • Licenses & Certifications
  • Books & Publications
  • Areas of Expertise

Biography

Dr. Seraj is a consultant interventional cardiologist and consultant of internal medicine. He had 2 years of interventional cardiology training, during which he performed more than 2000 diagnostic coronary angiographies and 1000 PCIs. He also handled high-risk PCIs, including left main coronary artery interventions and TAVR. Additionally, he completed a broad range of structural heart interventions, including ASD, PAD, VSD, pulmonary valve, and aortic valve procedures.

He worked at King Fahad University Hospital in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, as an interventional cardiology consultant starting in July 2015. He then served as an interventional cardiology consultant at DSFH in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from September 2017 to September 2020. He was the Chairman of the Cardiac Center at IMC from September 2020 to April 2024.

Dr. Seraj is a former assistant professor of internal medicine at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. His education includes an interventional cardiology fellowship at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, from 2013 to 2015, an internal medicine residency at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, from 2007 to 2010, and a cardiology residency training program at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He graduated from medical school at King Abdul-Aziz University.

Education & Training

Interventional cardiology fellowship training at university of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2013 – 2015

Cardiology residency training in university of Alberta 2010 – 2013

Internal medicine residency at university of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2007 – 2010

Demonstrator at king Fahad hospital of the university – AL Khobar, Saudi Arabia 2005 – 2007

Internship year 2003 – 2004

Summer training in king Khalid national guard hospital 2001

Medical school in king Abdul-Aziz university 1998 – 2003

Licenses & Certifications

MOH KSA license to practice 2024.

American board of internal medicine(ABIM) certified in 2010.

Royal college of internal medicine certified(FRCPC) 2011. American board of cardiovascular medicine certified(ABIM) 2013.

Royal college of cardiology certified(FRCPC) 2013. Level II echocardiography according to CCS for echocardiography guidelines 2013.

Interventional cardiology training and fellowship 2015.

Books & Publications

A case of subacute bioresorbable vascular scaffold thrombosis, what was wrong American journal of case reports 2017

A large ventricular cystic thrombus: unusual presentation of common entity CASE cardiovascular imaging case reports, December 2017

Clinical and angiographic outcomes in coronary artery bypass surgery with multiple versus single distal target grafts

The heart surgery forum journal, august 2017

Obturator artery injury post percutaneous coronary intervention: A case study International journal of scientific research, December 2016

Acute heart failure and atrial fibrillation: insight from the acute study of clinical effective of Neseritide in decompensated heart failure (ASCEND-HF) trial Journal of American heart association (JAHA) in 2015

JAHA 2015/0022092 Usefulness of ankle brachial index to predict high coronary SYNTAX score, myocardium at risk and incomplete coronary revascularization American journal of cardiology (AJC) 2014

Post STEMI survey of patient perception and behaviours comparing Canadian and Saudi patients Canadian journal of cardiology, October 2015

Complete versus culprit-only PCI for STEMI with multi-vessel coronary artery disease: an updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials I presented manuscript in cardiac science day at university of Alberta in June 2015

Aging and heart failure: mechanisms and management : Book was in 2014 Ch. 14: reperfusion and vasodilator therapy in elderly patients with STEMI and heart failure. Improving outcomes

  • Arrhythmias
  • Cardiac Diagnostic Imaging(echo-CT-MRI)
  • Cardiac Intervention - Coronary Artery Disease
  • Cardiomyopathies
  • Congenital Heart Disease in Adults
  • Heart Failure
  • Hypertension
  • Preventive Cardiology
  • Valvular heart disease

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