Almufleh | Department of Critical Care | School of Medicine

Dr. Aws Almufleh

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Assistant Professor

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Dr. Almufleh is a cardiologist, an echocardiographer, and the Physician Lead of the Heart Function Clinic at Queen’s University. After he completed a Master of Public Health (MPH), he went on to do internal medicine residency at McGill University and cardiology fellowship at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. His heart failure (HF) and transplant training was at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School where he participated in teaching residents and fellows. He then went on to pursue research training through the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training (GCSRT) program at Harvard Medical School with emphasis on advanced quantitative research methodology and study design. Dr. Almufleh also completed an advanced echocardiography fellowship training at Vancouver General Hospital.

His research interests include the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to optimize in-patient HF management. He also is interested in the role of POCUS in complementing and refining physical examination skills of medical residents and practicing physicians. Besides research pursuit, Dr. Almufleh is leading several medical education projects in heart failure and echocardiography. He is the Education Lead of echocardiography for cardiology and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) fellowships at Queen’s University. As for multicenter collaboration, Dr. Almufleh served as the Co-investigator together with Dr. Parvathy Nair (the project PI), and representatives from all cardiology training programs in Canada to develop and implement an objective assessment tool for echocardiography interpretation skills (Almufleh, et al CJC 2023). They then developed the CCS/CSE echocardiography training standards (Nair P, Chen-Tournoux A, Almufleh AS, et al CJC 2023). It is Dr. Almufleh’s firm conviction that through multidisciplinary collaboration, the safe and effective use of POCUS can flourish and lead to substantial improvement in patient outcomes.

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