Omar Khalique

Omar Khalique, MD, FACC, FASE, FSCCT, FSCMR, FSCAI is the Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Imaging at Saint Francis Hospital and Catholic Health, Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Research at the Dematteis Institute, and Director of the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship. Saint Francis Hospital is one of a handful of insitutions in the country where all Cardiovascular Imaging modalities (Cardiac CT, Cardiac MRI, Echocardiography, Nuclear SPECT/PET) are unified under a single Division to form a comprehensive program. Dr. Khalique was previously with Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he was an Associate Professor of Medicine (in Radiology) and served as the Director of Multimodality Cardiac Imaging at the Structural Heart and Valve Center. Dr. Khalique was one of the world’s first multimodality cardiovascular imaging specialists and is a recognized expert and thought leader in the fields of multimodality cardiovascular imaging and structural heart imaging. Dr. Khalique has published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has served on the Journal of the American College of Cardiology’s (JACC) Cardiovascular Imaging expert panel on Imaging in Valvular Heart Disease and the American College of Cardiology’s Structural Heart Disease working group. Dr. Khalique serves on several important national research trial committees, including the PARTNER cardiovascular imaging publications committee, and the CONFIRM-2 steering committee. He has imaged for several first in human structural heart device implants and has directed core lab imaging trials for several early feasibility and pivotal clinical trials. Dr. Khalique is a regular speaker at local, national and international meetings including ACC, SCCT, SCAI, ASE, TVT, TCT, and CSI and serves on committees for several of these societies. He has been a co-author on several society position papers and guidelines. Dr. Khalique earned his medical degree at Sydney Kimmel Medical College. He did his Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at New York Medical College. At Columbia University Medical Center, he underwent fellowship training in Advanced Echocardiography, Cardiovascular Computed  Tomography and Interventional and Valvular Echocardiography. He also completed a fellowship in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance at Weill Cornell Medical Center.