Ahmed Sami Abuzaid

Dr. Ahmed “Sami” Abuzaid received his degree in medicine from Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt, 2006 then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska in 2015. This was followed by a fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, 2018 and a fellowship in Advanced Echocardiography and Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging, at the University of California, San Francisco, CA, (UCSF) in 2019.
Dr. Abuzaid then followed his passion as a multimodality imager, joining The Alaska Heart and Vascular Institute (AHVI) in 2019, where he directs the advanced cardiac imaging, POCUS program, nuclear cardiology and structural heart imaging and is founder of the first hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Amyloidosis clinic in Alaska. He completed his Executive Master of Science (ScM) in Healthcare Leadership (EMHL) degree at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island in 2024. He completed the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Leadership Accelerator Academy and the leadership development program (LDP) at the American society of nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) in 2025. Dr. Abuzaid is member emerging faculty at ACC, among of the first cohort of ACC Fuster’s prevention forum and the POCUS council where he chairs the POCUS engagement committee at Inteleos. He is a member of the Envoy Health/ ACO in Alaska and director of Alaska Heart clinical research program. Dr. Abuzaid played a vital role recently to launch plaque analysis in Alaska where he envisions to expand CT services for the Alaska rural communitie and Native population. He is active member of the SCCT policy and practice committee with active role in private payers’ tasks force. He is an assistant Professor of Medical education at the University of Alaska (WWAMI) and Clinical instructor at the University of Washington. His goal is to make advanced imaging accessible to the community, answer daily cardiology questions