Doctor Ziad Ali

Ziad Ali is the Director of the DeMatteis Cardiovascular Institute at St Francis Hospital & Heart Center in New York. He is also Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at New York Institute of Technology. His clinical research interests focus on the use of imaging and physiology technologies such as photon counting CT, optical coherence tomography, intravascular ultrasound and flow wire assessment to optimize coronary interventions, for which he has served as global principal investigator on a number of trials. Dr Ali is also a recognized innovator, playing an integral role in the development of the Abbott Resting Full-Cycle Ratio (RFR), Shockwave intravascular lithotripsy and Spectrawave OCT. Clinically Dr Ali developed pioneering techniques to perform vascular interventions without contrast administration, including IVUS-guided zero-contrast PCI and OCT using saline flush media, protecting patients with advanced kidney disease from acute kidney injury and the need for dialysis.