Imad A. Alhaddad, MD, FACC

Director, Vascular Services, Cardiology Division
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Office Phone: 410-502-4598

Email: ialhadd1@jhmi.edu

Education & Training

• Medical School: Jordan University School of Medicine. Amman, Jordan
• Residencies:
• State University of New York Department of Internal Medicine, Stony Brook at Nassau
• University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York.
• Fellowships:
• Cardiology, State University of New York, Stony Brook at Nassau University Medical Center. East Meadow, New York
• Peripheral Vascular, Tufts University at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Boston, MA
• Interventional Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University

Board Certifications:

• Interventional Cardiology
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Nuclear Cardiology, Internal Medicine

Clinical Interests:

• Peripheral vascular angioplasty
• Renal artery angioplasty and stenting
• Coronary artery interventions
• Coronary artery in-stent restenosis
• High risk coronary artery angioplasty
• Angioplasty of venous bypass grafts

Research Interests:

• Intravascular ultrasound during peripheral vascular interventions
• Renal artery stenosis and renovascular hypertension
• Left ventricular remodeling after acute myocardial infarction
• Late coronary artery reperfusion after acute myocardial infarction

Selected Publications:
Alhaddad IA, Tkaczevski L, Siddiqui F, Mir R, Brown EJ Jr. Aspirin enhances the benefits of late reperfusion on infarct shape: A possible mechanism of the beneficial effects of aspirin on survival after acute myocardial infarction. Circulation 1995;91:2819-23.

Alhaddad IA, Kloner RA, Hakim I, Garno JL, Brown EJ Jr. Benefits of late coronary artery reperfusion on infarct expansion progressively diminish over time: Relationship to viable islets of myocytes within the scar. Am Heart J 1996;131:451-7.

Alhaddad IA, Hakim I, Siddiqi F, Lagenback E, Mallavarapu C, Nethala V, Mounce D, Ross PL, Brown EJ Jr. Early exercise after experimental myocardial infarction: Effect on left ventricular remodeling. Coronary Artery Dis 1998;9:319-327.

Ali SM, Brown EJ Jr., Nallapati SR, Alhaddad IA. Early angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor therapy post myocardial infarction prevents left ventricular dilation by reducing infarct expansion. Coronary Artery Dis 1998;9:815-21.

Alhaddad IA, Brown EJ Jr. Left ventricular remodeling following acute myocardial infarction. In Brown DL (ed): Cardiac Intensive Care, WB Saunders Co. 1998.

Alhaddad IA, Blair R, Wuench D, Schainfeld R, Rauh G, Thaler D, Rosenfield K. The benefits of intravascular ultrasound during carotid artery stenting. J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;33:100A

Alhaddad IA, Sahgal P, Mir R, Brown EJ Jr., Early ACE inhibitor therapy enhances the benefits of late coronary artery reperfusion on infarct expansion. Coronary artery Dis 2000;11:183-9.

Alhaddad IA, Kazimuddin M, Brown EJ Jr. Late coronary artery reperfusion, benefits and mechanisms. Can J Cardiol 2000;16:463-6.

Khalil M, Basher A, Brown EJ Jr., Alhaddad IA. A remarkable medical story: Benefits of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in cardiac patients. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001; 37:1757-64.

Alhaddad IA, Blum S, Heller EN, Beato MA, Bhalodkar NC, Keriaky GE, Brown EJ, Jr. Renal Artery Stenosis in Minority Patients Undergoing Diagnostic Cardiac CAtheterization: Prevalence and Risk Factors. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Therapeut 2001;6:147-53.