Maqsood Elahi
Cardiac Eye International Foundation, USA
Biography
Maqsood Elahi is the Founder and Chairman of the Humanitarian Organization Cardiac Eye International Foundation (CEIF). He is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon by profession and also a Clinician Scientist with basic, translational and clinical research experience. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals of repute and has authored four books in oxidative stress, mostly due to external environmental stress factors including high fat diets. He is also a Distinguished Professor of the Cardiovascular Sciences in the University of Health Sciences, Pakistan. His area of expertise and skill are in general adult cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, complex congenital/pediatric cardiac surgery, surgery for aortic diseases, CCRT placements, MICS aortic and mitral valve, off-pump CABGs, mechanical circulatory support (LVADs, RVADs, ECMO) heart and lung transplant.