Khaled M. Ziada, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Khaled Ziada, MD, FACC, FSCAI, is Co-Director of the Coronary Artery Disease Center and Chief Academic Officer for Cardiovascular Interventions in the Section of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology, Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute.

Dr. Ziada earned his medical degree and a master’s degree in cardiovascular medicine, both with honors, from Cairo University School of Medicine, Cairo. He completed his internal medicine residency at Helmeya Military Hospital in Cairo, followed by a residency in cardiovascular medicine at Cairo University Hospitals.

Dr. Ziada first came to Cleveland Clinic in 1995 as a research fellow in intravascular ultrasound imaging then continued his training here as a fellow in interventional cardiology. After serving an internal medicine residency at Cleveland Clinic, he remained here for a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine. At the conclusion of his fellowship in 2004, he relocated to Lexington, Ky., where he joined the faculty of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Kentucky as an assistant professor and was appointed as the director of the cardiac catheterization laboratories at the Lexington VA Medical Center.

Prior to Dr. Ziada’s 2020 return to Northeast Ohio and his appointment to the Cleveland Clinic medical staff, he was a full professor of medicine, Gill Foundation endowed professor of interventional cardiology and Clinical Chief of Cardiology at the Gill Heart and Vascular Institute of the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Dr. Ziada has been a principal investigator (PI) on more than 30 research studies related to advances in interventional cardiovascular procedures.

Dr. Ziada is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions and a manuscript reviewer for many medical journals. He has coauthored more than 160 research papers and abstracts published in leading medical journal and more than 20 cardiology textbook chapters. He is a frequent presenter at regional, national and international medical meetings on research and advances in interventional cardiovascular medicine.

Dr. Ziada is a past governor of the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), a member of the ACC Board of Governors. He is the current Chair of the ACC Middle East Conference.