Dr Mohamed Farag is a consultant interventional cardiologist at the Newcastle’s Freeman hospital specialising in percutaneous coronary and structural interventions with a vast experience in treating patients with complex coronary artery disease, chronic total occlusions and those requiring transcutaneous valve interventions, including TAVI procedure. He also treats patients with all types of heart disease, including palpitations, hypertension, heart failure and valvular heart disease.
Dr Farag graduated from Ain Shams University, Egypt with honours and numerous prizes. He undertook his specialist training at the world-class Royal Papworth hospital at Cambridge, UK. He then undertook advanced complex coronary and structural intervention fellowships and worked as a locum consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust before taking his substantive consultant post at Newcastle Freeman hospital. He is also an honorary senior clinical lecturer in cardiovascular sciences at the University of Hertfordshire.
His desire to improve the service he provides to patients and staff led him to complete a “mini-MBA” in healthcare management and leadership delivered by the Cambridge Judge Business school. He also successfully completed MSc degree in internal medicine and cardiovascular sciences from the University of Edinburgh. Additionally, he was awarded PhD degree in interventional cardiovascular sciences from the University of Hertfordshire.
This was a unique programme of research that expanded existing knowledge in heart attack risk-stratification and coronary artery thrombosis and resulted in numerous high-quality publications. Dr Farag research interests include thrombosis, preventing heart attacks and standardising the treatments for structural heart interventions. Dr Farag regularly lectures at prestigious national and international conferences. Moreover, he leads on a few national and international trials as a principal investigator. Furthermore, he serves as an editor and senior reviewer at various leading cardiovascular journals.
