Dr. Seraj Abdullah Abualnaja MBBS, FRCPC

Chairperson, Interventional Cardiologist & Consultant Internal Medicine & Cardiology

Cardiology | 19 years of experience | Speaks Arabic, English

Areas of Expertise:

  • Cardiac intervention - Coronary Artery Disease
  • Heart Failure
  • Arrhythmias
  • +more

Dr. Seraj is a consultant interventional cardiologist and consultant of internal medicine He had 2 years of interventional cardiology training in which more than 2000 diagnostic Coronary angiography and 1000 PCI was done Also have high risk PCI including left main coronary artery intervention & TAVR and Completed a bored range of structural heart intervention including (ASD, PAD, VSD, pulmonary valve and aortic valve) King Fahad university hospital in ALKHBAR, SAUDI ARABIA as interventional cardiology consultant in July 2015 Interventional cardiology consultant in DSFH in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia since September 2017 till September 2020 he was the Chairman of cardiac centre at IMC, September 2020- April 2024 He is a former assistant professor of internal medicine at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. His education included interventional cardiology fellowship training at University of Alberta, Edmonton in 2013-2015, Canada, internal medicine residency in University of Alberta- Edmonton, Canada in 2007-2010. Cardiology residency Training program in University of Alberta-Edmonton, Canada. He was graduated from medical school in King Abdul-Aziz University.

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

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.

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

  • Cardiac intervention - Coronary Artery Disease
  • Heart Failure
  • Arrhythmias
  • Hypertension
  • Valvular Heart Disease
  • Congenital Heart Disease in Adults