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Omar F. Abou Ezzeddine, M.D., M.S.

  1. Cardiologist
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  1. Rochester, Minnesota

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Omar F. Abou-Ezzeddine, M.D.C.M., M.S., is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and is a Consultant in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine with a dual appointment in the Division of Circulatory Failure and the Division of Nuclear Cardiology. He is also Director of the Cardiac Sarcoidosis Clinic, Division of Circulatory Failure, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. His clinical and research focuses include:

  • Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
  • Cardiac sarcoidosis
  • Cardiac amyloidosis
  • Nuclear imaging techniques to assess infiltrative/inflammatory cardiomyopathies, cardiac energetics and myocardial blood flow
  • Biomarker-based strategies for heart failure prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic assessment
  • Acute decompensated heart failure
  1. Cardiac amyloidosis
  2. Cardiac sarcoidosis
  3. Cardiomyopathy
  4. Decompensated heart failure
  5. Heart failure
  6. Pulmonary hypertension
  7. Sarcoidosis
  1. Imaging procedure
  2. Nuclear stress test
  • Acute decompensated heart failure
  • Advanced heart failure
  • Biomarkers
  • Cardiac amyloidosis
  • Cardiac sarcoidosis
  • Heart failure
  • Heart failure prevention
  • Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
  • Myocardial energetics
  • Nuclear imaging
  • Risk stratification
  • PET imaging
  1. 2016
    Advanced Fellowship - Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology FellowMayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Education Administration
  2. 2016
    Master of Science - Clinical and Translational Science. Thesis: Heart Failure Toolbox-Clinical Instruments for the Prediction of Heart Failure Incidence, Course and PrognosisMayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  3. 2016
    Other - Skills Development Core FellowHeart Failure Network (HFN)
  4. 2015
    Fellow - CardiologyMayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Education Administration
  5. 2015
    Advanced Fellowship - Advanced Imaging Fellow: COCATS Level III Echocardiography and Level II Nuclear ImagingMayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  6. 2012
    Research Fellowship - NIH Research Fellow, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (T32-HL07111)Cardiorenal Research Laboratory
  7. 2010
    Residency - Internal MedicineMayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Education Administration
  8. 2010
    ResidentInternal Medicine, Programs in Rochester, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  9. 2008
    Internship - Internal MedicineMayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Education Administration
  10. 2007
    MD, CM - Faculty of MedicineMcGill University
  11. 2003
    BS - Faculty of ScienceMcGill University

Certifications

  1. 2017
    Nuclear CardiologyCertification Board of Nuclear Cardiology
  2. 2016
    Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant CardiologyAmerican Board of Internal Medicine
  3. 2015
    Cardiovascular DiseasesAmerican Board of Internal Medicine
  4. 2010
    Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal Medicine

Awards and honors

  1. 2022
    2022 Mayo Clinic Experience Top Performer AwardMayo Clinic
  2. 2022
    Top Performer in 99th Percentile for Unparalleled Experience at Mayo ClinicMayo Clinic
  3. 2022
    2022/2023 Distinguished Investigator/Team Science AwardMayo Clinic
  4. 2021
    2021 Top Performing Provider Patient Experience AwardMayo Clinic
  5. 2020
    Thomas H. and Dorothy S. Corson Career Development Award in Cardiovascular Disease ResearchMayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science
  6. 2017
    Best Young Oral AbstractInternational Conference on Nuclear Cardiology (ICNC) and Cardiac CT
  7. 2016
    Young Investigator AwardAmerican Society of Nuclear Cardiology
  8. 2016
    FIT Section Leadership Council Travel AwardAmerican College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session
  9. 2015
    Travel Grant19th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America
  10. 2010
    National Institutes of Health's Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Service AwardNational Heart, Lung & Blood Institute
  11. 2008
    Best Poster Presentation9th International Dead Sea Symposium on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Device Therapy
  12. 2007
    Brian Newton Memorial AwardMcGill University, Faculty of Medicine
  13. 2006
    John Gibbons Medical Student AwardAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, District 1
  14. 2000
    James McGill AwardMcGill University
  15. 2000
    Jane Redpath Exhibition AwardMcGill University
  16. 1999
    Dean's Honor ListMcGill University, Faculty of Science

Professional memberships

  1. 2020
    Fellow-in-Training MemberFinance Committee, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
  2. 2020
    Abstract GraderHeart Failure Society of America (HFSA)
  3. 2020
    2020 Annual Meeting Program Committee, memberAmerican Society of Nuclear Cardiology
  4. 2019 - present
    AttendeeDepartment of Cardiology Diversity & Inclusion Working Group
  5. 2019 - 2022
    Leadership Development ProgramAmerican Society of Nuclear Cardiology
  6. 2019
    Abstract GraderAmerican Heart Association
  7. 2019
    Abstract GraderHeart Failure Society of America (HFSA)
  8. 2019
    Member, Annual Meeting Planning CommitteeHeart Failure Society of America (HFSA)
  9. 2019
    2019 Annual Meeting Programming Committee, MemberAmerican Society of Nuclear Cardiology
  10. 2018
    Abstract GraderAmerican Heart Association
  11. 2017 - present
    FellowAmerican College of Cardiology
  12. 2017 - present
    FellowHeart Failure Society of America (HFSA)
  13. 2016 - present
    MemberAmerican Society of Nuclear Cardiology
  14. 2016 - present
    MemberInternational Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
  15. 2016 - 2017
    MemberHeart Failure Society of America (HFSA)
  16. 2016 - present
    MemberEuropean Society of Cardiology
  17. 2016 - 2018
    ChairHeart Failure Apprentice Network (HFAN), NHLBI Heart Failure Clinical Research Network
  18. 2013 - present
    MemberAssociation for Clinical and Translational Science
  19. 2010 - 2017
    MemberAmerican College of Cardiology
  20. 2010 - 2016
    MemberHeart Failure Apprentice Network (HFAN), NHLBI Heart Failure Clinical Research Network
  21. 2010 - present
    MemberAmerican Heart Association
  22. 2007 - present
    MemberAmerican College of Physicians
  23. 2004 - 2006
    Class PresidentMcGill University Medical Student Society

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