Dr. Seraj Abdullah Abualnaja
Chairperson, Interventional Cardiologist & Consultant Internal Medicine & Cardiology
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.
Areas of expertise.
Education and training.
- 01Interventional cardiology fellowship training at university of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2013 - 2015
- 02Cardiology residency training in university of Alberta 2010 - 2013
- 03Internal medicine residency at university of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2007 - 2010
- 04Demonstrator at king Fahad hospital of the university - AL Khobar, Saudi Arabia 2005 - 2007
- 05Internship year 2003 - 2004
- 06Summer training in king Khalid national guard hospital 2001
- 07Medical school in king Abdul-Aziz university 1998 - 2003
Boards and fellowships.
- 01Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- 02Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
- 03Level II Echocardiography (CCS guidelines)
- 04MOH KSA license to practice 2024.
- 05American board of internal medicine(ABIM) certified in 2010.
- 06Royal college of internal medicine certified(FRCPC) 2011. American board of cardiovascular medicine certified(ABIM) 2013.
- 07Royal college of cardiology certified(FRCPC) 2013. Level II echocardiography according to CCS for echocardiography guidelines 2013.
- 08Interventional cardiology training and fellowship 2015.
Selected publications.
- 01A case of subacute bioresorbable vascular scaffold thrombosis, what was wrong American journal of case reports 2017
- 02A large ventricular cystic thrombus: unusual presentation of common entity CASE cardiovascular imaging case reports, December 2017
- 03Clinical and angiographic outcomes in coronary artery bypass surgery with multiple versus single distal target grafts
- 04The heart surgery forum journal, august 2017
- 05Obturator artery injury post percutaneous coronary intervention: A case study International journal of scientific research, December 2016