Biography
Maqsood Elahi, is a Adult and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon who is the Founder and Chairman CardiacEye International Heart Foundation, Texas, USA with its branches in Pakistan, UK, Kenya and Australia. He enjoys the honored HEC professorship of cardiovascular diseases. In the past, he served as an Assistant Professor to Texas A&M Health Science Centre, USA.He graduated from the University of Glasgow, UK (1998-2000), and completed BUPA/ BHF Clinical Research Fellow, University of Southampton, UK (2005-2007). He completed Basic Surgical Training in UK (1999-2001) and he received Complex Adult Cardiothoracic Fellowship, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Vic, Australia (2008-2009), and he completed Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, UK (2008 till present), he graduated in MRCS: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2000). He graduated in MMedSci, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2000), he holds FACS, American College of Surgeons, USA (2008), and he certified FRCSI, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (2010), he studied Ph.D, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, United Kingdom (2011).
Research Interest
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Investigating the role of blood-dependent redox activity and the biology of Nitric Oxide (NO) modulation in ischemia-reperfusion induced organ injury during extracorporeal circulation in ischemic heart disease.
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Effects of genes encodings and polymorphisms in the promoter regions of the Tumour Necrosis Factor in ethnicity-specific risk of cardiovascular disease; defining gene silencing for gene therapy in preventing early origins of atherosclerosis, and studying the usage and implications of endothelial progenitor cells in tissue engineering models of heart/ lung transplant and mechanical circulatory support.
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He has developed a unique mouse model.
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Developmental programming of cardiovascular diseases.
