Doctor Ahmed Youssef

Ahmed Youssef, MD, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven. His research focuses on cardiac shear wave imaging and its applications in pediatric and adult cardiovascular diseases, particularly for the assessment of myocardial stiffness and diastolic function. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University in 2013 and obtained his Master’s degree in Cardiovascular Medicine in 2018. He has extensive experience in transthoracic echocardiography and completed advanced training in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the Aswan Heart Centre. Ahmed completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at KU Leuven through a scholarship from the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education. He won the prestigious EACVI Research Fellowship 2024 and was nominated for the Young Investigator Award at the EACVI Congress 2024 and EACVI Congress 2025. His work has been published in leading cardiac imaging journals.