Dr Ahmad Zakariyya

Special clinical interest in interventional cardiology and cardiac imaging.

About Dr Ahmad Zakariyya

After graduating in 2002, Dr Ahmad Zakariyya moved to the UK to complete his internal medicine training, earning membership with the Royal College of Physicians in 2007. He then relocated to Australia where he completed his physician training at Gold Coast Hospital and cardiology training at Western Health in Melbourne. Following this he pursued advanced interventional and structural heart disease training, including TAVI, at Waikato Hospital in New Zealand.

Dr Zakariyya has also contributed to humanitarian efforts in Pakistan, working as a cardiologist at a regional referral cardiac centre. There, he played a key role in quality improvement initiatives, including developing the structural interventional program, establishing hospital protocols, and training medical staff. He later joined the NHS in the UK, serving as a consultant interventional cardiologist at Northern Devon and District NHS Trust, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In these roles he provided coronary intervention and cardiac CT services while gaining extensive experience in managing high-risk coronary syndromes and congenital heart disease.

Dr Zakariyya is widely published and has presented his research at national and international conferences. His clinical interests include stable and acute coronary syndromes, structural and valvular heart diseases, cardiomyopathies, and adult congenital heart diseases.

Dr Zakariyya speaks English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi.

Professional memberships

• Australian Medical Association, Victoria
• Fellow Royal College of Physicians, UK (RCP)
• Fellow Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE)
• Member Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG)
• Fellow of Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)
• Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
• Member British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging/ British Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography (BSCI/ BSCCT)
• The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
• International Associate Member of American College of Cardiology (ACC)
• International Associate Member of Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI)
• Member of European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
• Member of Heart Failure Association of ESC (HFA)
• Member European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)
• Member of Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA)
• Member Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC)

Publications

• Cost Effective Analysis of the Use of Computed Tomography Fractional Flow Reserve for Diagnosis and Improvement of Clinical Outcomes in First Time Coronary Artery Disease Compared to Invasive Coronary Angiography – EC Cardiology 6.9 (2019): 867-875. Narendra Kumar, Madhan Kumar Ranganathan, Cyril James, Ahmad Zakariyya, Manish Barman, Swaroop Varghese and Shaimaa Mustafa, 2019
• Systemic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic efficacy of fractional flow reserve using computed tomography angiography for first time diagnosis of coronary artery disease – Research in Cardiovascular Medicine 2018, Vol. 7 (4): 159 – 164. Narendra Kumar, Ajay Kumar Sinha, Pramod Kumar, Arun Kumar Jha, Karuppiah Arunachalam, Sanjeev Kumar, Ahmad Zakariya, Shaimaa Mostafa, 2018
• Challenging Acute Chest Pain Syndromes in Patients with Dextrocardia – Poster at International Conference on Internal Medicine and Tropical Cardiology, Rabwah, Pakistan, 2016
• Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock in Elderly Aortic Stenosis Patient in Rural Centre – Poster at International Conference on Internal Medicine and Tropical Cardiology, Rabwah, Pakistan, 2016
• Correlation between Doppler Echocardiography and Right Heart Catheterization derived Pulmonary Artery Pressures: Impact of Right Atrial pressures – Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan 2016, Vol. 26 (4): 255-259. I. Ahmad, Prof. M. M. H. Nuri, Ahmad Nasiruddin Zakariyya, S. M. Ahmad, M. Ahmad, R. S. Ahmad, 2016

Awards received

• President Gold Medals University of The Punjab for distinction in MBBS