Riad Abou Zahr, MD

Research Scientist
UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center Dallas

I am a board certified pediatric cardiologist with level III competence in CMR. I earned my medical degree from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and subsequently performed pediatric residency training at Harlem Hospital & Columbia University in New York. I did my pediatric cardiology fellowship at Yale University and advanced imaging (CMR & CT) fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. My passion is CMR in congenital and acquired heart disease with focus on testing new sequences, image optimization and liver iron quantification by MRI. I am currently a consultant pediatric cardiologist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Presentation(s):

• 1 - MRWire Experience in Congenital Heart Disease

  Thursday, February 7
  4:00 PM – 4:10 PM

• 5 - Fick versus Flow: A Real-Time Interventional CMR Reproducibility Study

  Friday, February 8
  11:36 AM – 11:42 AM

• Team Africa/Asia

  Saturday, February 9
  2:10 PM – 3:35 PM

• 4 - Myocardial perfusion reserve as a marker for transplant coronary vasculopathy

  Saturday, February 9
  2:50 PM – 3:00 PM