Riaz Haider (born July 2, 1934) is an American physician, cardiologist, author, and medical educator. He is best known for his work and research in the diagnostic cardiac ultrasound, heart pacemakers, exercise stress testing, and heart catheterization. He is the former President of the

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Nation's Capital Affiliate, and served as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the

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from 1984 - 2011. He is an elected

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, the

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, and the

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. He retired in 2011 and currently resides in

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Background

Haider was born in

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(now Pakistan) in 1934. His father was a civil servant. He attended high school at the Government Central Model School in

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. He left Pakistan for the U.K. in 1957, and moved to the United States in 1966.

Education

Haider attended the

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, and then

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, where he qualified as a doctor in 1956 at the age of 22. He received training and conducted research in internal medicine and adult and pediatric cardiology in both the U.S. and the U.K.

Career

Haider spent much of his career in the

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area and taught at

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, and

. He was Chief of Cardiology at the

from 1974 - 1993, and as President of Washington Cardiology Associates, P.C. from 1974 - 2008. Over the span of nearly 5 decades, he held appointments at the

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, and

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in London. At Hammersmith Hospital he directed the adult cardiac catheterization laboratories. The role included training cardiology fellows and researching diverse areas of heart disease. At GWU Hospital, with Joseph Lindsay, Haider introduced Swan-Ganz cardiac catheterization in evaluation of cardiac function after acute myocardial infarction. At Providence Hospital he initiated new cardiovascular laboratories, which led to improved patient care. Haider is Director Emeritus and former board member of the International Student House of Washington, D.C., which provides residential experience to a highly diverse community of American and international graduate students, interns, and visiting scholars. He has published articles in

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, the

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, and Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. He released his first book, ''A Triumphant Voyage, Great Achievements in Cardiology'' in April 2020.

Awards and honors

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Fellowship Award in Internal Medicine, 1966 * American Heart Association, Nation's Capital, Grant in Aid Research Award, 1973 * American College of Cardiology, Member of the Order of William Harvey, 1977 * Heart House Founder,

1977 * Gold Headed Cane Award,

, 1992 * American Heart Association, Nation's Capital, Heart of Gold Award, 1992

Publications

Books

* Haider, Riaz (2020-04-30). ''A Triumphant Voyage: Great Achievements in Cardiology''. Riaz Haider. .

Articles

* Haider, Riaz; Storey, Geoffrey (1962-06-02). "Spontaneous Fractures in Rheumatoid Arthritis". ''Br Med J''. 1 (5291): 1514–1516. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5291.1514.

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0007-1447.

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13903699. * Haider, Riaz; Singh, S. P. (1970). "Phentolamine In Heart Block". ''The British Medical Journal''. 4 (5730): 307–307.

0007-1447. * Haider, R Endotoxin Fever and Tolerance in Totally Adrenalectomized Rabbits. Proc. Soc. Exp. BioI. & Med. 136, 2, 514, 1971 * Faithfull, N. S.; Haider, R. (1971). "Ketamine for cardiac catheterisation". ''Anaesthesia''. 26 (3): 318–323. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2044.1971.tb04792.x.

1365-2044. * Haider, R, Finnegan, P., Sanchos, P., Singh, S.P., Abrams, L.D. & Parsons, D., Twelve year follow-up of Tetralogy of Fallot after surgical Correction of Fallots Tetralogy in Childhood. Brit. H.J. 34, 2,205, 1972 * Khan, A. H.; Boughner, D. R.; Haider, R. (1972-11). "Effect of phentolamine on atrioventricular conduction in man assessed by recording His bundle potential". ''British Heart Journal''. 34 (11): 1102–1106. doi:10.1136/hrt.34.11.1102.

0007-0769.

4635346. * Gorman, P., Byers, R & Haider, R. Exercise Electrocardiography. In Exercise Testing and Exercise Training in Coronary Heart Disease (Naughton, J. and Hallerstein, H., Ed.). New York Academic Press, 93–102, 1973 * Haider, R., Thomas, D.G.T., Zaidy, G., Cleland, W.P. & Goodwin, J.F. Congenital pericardio-peritoneal Communication with Herniation of omentum into the Pericardium. Brit. Ht. J. 35, 981–984, 1973 * Naughton, J. & Haider, R. Methods of Exercising Testing. In Exercise Testing and Exercise Training in Coronary Heart Disease ( Naughton,J. and Hallerstein, H. Ed.), New York Academic Press, 71–91, 1973 * Singh, S. P.; Haider, R. (1973-01). "The lack of value of hepato-jugular reflux as a sign of heart failure". ''Postgraduate Medical Journal''. 49 (567): 10–13.

0032-5473. PMC 2495370.

4731436. * Khan, A. H.; Haider, R.; Boughner, D. R.; Oakley, C. M.; Goodwin, J. F. (1973-07). "Sinus rhythm with absent P waves in advanced rheumatic heart disease". ''The American Journal of Cardiology''. 32 (1): 93–97. doi:10.1016/s0002-9149(73)80091-8.

0002-9149.

4713117 * Gorfinkel, J.H., Haider, R. & Lindsay, J. Diagnosis and Treatment of Hemodynamic Abnormalities after Acute Myocardial Infarction. Medical Annals of the District of Columbia Vol. 43, No.8, 399, 1974 * Finnegan, P.; Haider, R.; Patel, R. G.; Abrams, L. S.; Singh, S. P. (1976-09-01). "Results of total correction of the tetralogy of Fallot. Long-term haemodynamic evaluation at rest and during exercise". ''Heart''. 38 (9): 934–942. doi:10.1136/hrt.38.9.934.

1355-6037.

786344. * Haider, R.; Meyer, J. F.; Rasul, A. M. (1984-05). "Cardiac pacemakers: current concepts". ''American Family Physician''. 29 (5): 223–228.

0002-838X.

6731240.

References

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