Dr. Karim Al-Azizi

Dr. Al-Azizi was born in Cairo, Egypt, and graduated in 2010 from Ain Shams University Medical School in Cairo, Egypt. He joined the Internal Medicine residency at St Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital in Michigan and served as a chief medical resident, then joined the cardiology fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center in PA, mentored by James Blankenship and Kimberly Skelding. Dr. Al-Azizi participated in the Interventional fellowship at Baystate Medical Center - University of Massachusetts, mentored by Amir Lotfi and Greg Giugliano. He continued to train and joined the structural heart disease fellowship, mentored by Michael Mack and Molly Szerlip.

For 4 years, Dr. Al-Azizi has been an Interventional Cardiologist and Structural Heart Disease specialist at Baylor Scott & White Health - The Heart Hospital in Plano, TX. He is also the Associate Program Director of the cardiovascular disease fellowship and a clinical assistant professor at the Texas A and M College of Medicine. Clinically, he is busy with complex coronary and structural heart interventions. Academically, he has co-authored and published several manuscripts and has given several national and international presentations and lectures. He has been involved with SCAI since his general cardiology fellowship and has served on several committees. He co-authored the technical review for the PFO guidelines as well as the in-stent restenosis and thrombosis document. He serves as a principal investigator for multiple coronary and structural clinical trials. He spearheaded an investigator-initiated randomized trial that evaluated the safety of distal radial access, presented as a late-breaking clinical trial at SCAI. His clinical and research interests include complex coronary interventions, ultra-low contrast, physiology and imaging-guided PCI, and transcatheter interventions for valvular heart disease.