Cardiology Co-Editor
Feras Bader, MD, MS, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine-Cardiology
Consultant Cardiologist | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Dr. Feras Bader is a Consultant Cardiologist in the Heart and Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiology and specializes in the field of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation.

After graduating from the University of Jordan School of Medicine in in 1998, he finished Internal Medicine Residency as well as Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship within the Yale University School of Medicine system. In 2003, he went to the University of Utah and completed his Cardiovascular Fellowship in 2006. Upon completion of his fellowship he joined the faculty there at the Division of Cardiology. He served as the Medical Director of the Heart Failure Program at the University of Utah Hospital and the Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship Program. During his time there, he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Clinical Investigation.

In late 2012, Dr. Bader took a leave from the University of Utah to help establish an advanced heart failure program for the Ministry of Health in Kuwait. After adding a very valuable regional experience to his experience from the US, he relocated to the Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi in summer of 2015 to pursue his ambition of building an internationally recognized advanced heart failure and transplant program in the Middle East. 

Dr. Bader is American Board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Echocardiography, and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. His research interests include various aspects in ventricular assist devices, hemodynamics and cardiorenal interaction in heart failure as well as non-invasive diagnosis of rejection in heart transplantation. He has participated in many single and multi-center trials and has published several articles in peer review journals.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.