Dr. Ziyad M. Hijazi
International Office
Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH is Chief Medical Officer, Chair - Sidra Heart Center, a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and the clinical lead of Sidra international office.
About Dr. Hijazi
Practice emphasis: Interventional Cardiology
Board certifications: American Board Pediatrics; Sub Pediatric Cardiology; American Board Internal Medicine-Sub board Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Languages Spoken: Arabic / English
Special Interests: Congenital and Structural Heart Disease
Research Interests: Congenital and Structural Heart Disease
- Is internationally recognized leader in the nonsurgical repair of congenital and structural heart defects and in development of novel transcatheter devices
- Performed the first multiple coil closure of patient ductus arteriosus (PDA) in (1993)
- Was the first in the United States to use the Amplatzer device to close atrial septal defects (ASDs) in 1997
- Was the first to describe how intracadiac echocardiology can be used to assist in guiding transcatheter closure of ASDs in children and patent formen ovale (PFO) in (2000)
- Was the first in the United States to perform percutaneous valve implantation for patients with defective pulmonary valves using the Edwards SAPIEN valve in (2005)
- Was the first in the United States to perform perventricular pulmonary valves implantation without cardiopulmonary bypass in (2008)
- Expert in transcatheter closure of para valvar mitral and aortic leaks
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Structural Heart Disease