CLINTON, MD – MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center and MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute are pleased to announce that interventional cardiologist Dr. Malik Al-Omari will be joining doctors Hong, Thomaides and Lee.
The role of an interventional cardiologist is to intervene with heart complications to perform procedures such as angioplasties to open up arteries or veins, or to install stents, which are mesh wire tubes that keep blood vessels open. Without such intervention, artery blockages limit blood supply, which weakens heart muscles.
As an Interventional Cardiologist, Dr. Malik Al-Omari will treat patients preventatively with procedures such as angioplasties and stent installations and will treat patients who have suffered heart attacks. Dr. Al-Omari will perform angioplasties, cardiac catheterization diagnostic procedures, stenting and Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) Tests. He offers care and treatment for angina, aortic stenosis, atrial fibrillation, cardiopulmonary disease, coronary artery disease, heart attack, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and mitral valve stenosis.
Dr. Al-Omari earned his medical degree at Jordan University of Science and Technology in his home country of Jordan and completed an internship at Princess Basma Teaching Hospital in Irbid, Jordan. He completed a Residency in Internal Medicine at Seton Hall University in New Jersey and a Residency in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He also completed a Fellowship in Heart Failure and Transplantation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, a Fellowship in Cardiology at a Mayo Clinic Program in Florida and a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the University of Tennessee Health Center.
Prior to joining MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center, Dr. Al-Omari worked as an interventional cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He also served as an assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo College of Medicine and is the author of numerous peer reviewed articles. Dr. Al-Omari speaks Arabic and medical Spanish.
To make an appointment with Dr. Al-Omari or any member of the MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center and MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute’s cardiologist group, please call 301-877-5677.