Doctor Bahira Shahim

Bahira Shahim, MD., PhD., FESC, assistant professor and cardiologist at the Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital. She is a team leader for valvular heart disease within the heart failure group at the Dept. of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. In 2019, she defended her PhD thesis “Screening Strategies for Dysglycaemia in relation to Cardiovascular Risk” at the Karolinska Institutet. After her PhD defense, she pursued postdoctoral research studies between 2019-2022 in interventional cardiology research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Columbia University, New York.