Ibrahim Al-Rashdan
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Rashdan (born 1963) is a Kuwaiti Cardiology Consultant. He was born in the United Arab Emirates, where he spent his school years. He has received during his studies there on the second place in the Emirate of Dubai in High school. Then returned to Kuwait to study medicine and then moved to Canada where he continued his studies in which majoring in the field of heart as a unique experiment where he worked in three of the largest hospitals in which he dealt with a group of elite doctors. In order to continue to his successful medical career, he returned to Kuwait and worked at the Chest Diseases Hospital and soon became the head of unit of Cardiac Catheterization at the Chest Diseases Hospital and a member of the Faculty of Medicine at Kuwait University. As a member of the faculty, he managed to take part in changing the curricula of the Faculty of Medicine to achieve an advanced level. He attended numerous conferences and won numerous international awards. Among the most prominent achievements of Dr. Ibrahim Al-Rashdan is his discovery of a new way to treat branch arteries of the heart, especially the main arteries of the trunk through catheterization. The process called (CMT) was broadcast live from the Catheter lab in Chest Diseases Hospital via satellite to one of the largest conferences of Cardiac Catheterization and Treatment of Complex Cases in the United States and for the first time in the Middle East.
Diplomas
> Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Kuwait University, 1989.
> American Board of esoteric diseases 1995.
> Canadian Fellowship of the Royal College of esoteric diseases 1996.
> American Board of Cardiology 1998.
> Canadian Fellowship of the Royal College of Cardiology 1998.
> American Board of specialty cardiac interventions 1999.
Scientific expertise > joined the Ministry of Health in September 1989 as a resident at Al-Farwaniya Hospital.
> Live up to the Assistant Registrar in 1990 in the Department Of Internal Medicine.
> Graduate enrolled in the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1992 in Vankuvu and graduated in 1999 after a specialization in internal medicine and then majored in cardiology and interventional cardiology.
> Upgrade to registered first in 1995.
> Upgrade to a specialist underground and heart disease in January 2000.
> Faculty member at Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine specialty heart and Blood vessels.
> Assigned to work in the Chest Disease Hospital consultant cardiologist and blood vessels and specialty flour in cardiac interventions.
Achievements
> Vice- President of the Association of cardiologists Kuwaiti 2000/2002.
> President of the Association of cardiologists Kuwaiti 2004.
> Winning second place globally in cardiac catheter Paris Conference 2004.
> Successfully conducted the first four operations in the Middle East for the restoration of Mitral Valve for the treatment of mitral valve reflex without a surgery.