Shafkat Anwar, MD

CA3D+ Medical Director
Pediatric Cardiology
[email protected]

Dr. Shafkat Anwar is a pediatric cardiologist with a specialty in non-invasive cardiac imaging, including echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

He is the Director of the Pediatric Heart Center's Cardiac MRI and 3D+ Programs. He is also a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies (CA3D+).

He is a founding member and the inaugural Chair of the Advanced 3D+ Visualization Special Interest Group in the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Dr. Anwar completed his internship and residency in Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center, as well as a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.

He completed fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging at Cleveland Clinic and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Prior to joining UCSF, Dr. Anwar was Cardiology Director of Cardiac MRI at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

At Wash. U. Dr. Anwar co-founded and co-directed the Center for 3D Printing, a multi-disciplinary 3D printing center.

Publications: 

Myocardial Scarring and Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Multicenter Cohort Study.

JAMA cardiology

Chan RH, van der Wal L, Liberato G, Rowin E, Soslow J, Maskatia S, Chan S, Shah A, Fogel M, Hernandez L, Anwar S, Voges I, Carlsson M, Buddhe S, Laser KT, Greil G, Valsangiacomo-Buechel E, Olivotto I, Wong D, Wolf C, Grotenhuis H, Rickers C, Hor K, Rutz T, Kutty S, Samyn M, Johnson T, Hasbani K, Moore JP, Sieverding L, Detterich J, Parra R, Chungsomprasong P, Toro-Salazar O, Roest AAW, Dittrich S, Brun H, Spinner J, Lai W, Dyer A, Jablonowsk R, Meierhofer C, Gabbert D, Prsa M, Patel JK, Hornung A, Diab SG, House AV, Rakowski H, Benson L, Maron MS, Grosse-Wortmann L

Interstitial Fibrosis and Arrhythmic Mitral Valve Prolapse: Unravelling Sex-Based Differences.

Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Tastet L, Dixit S, Jhawar R, Nguyen T, Al-Akchar M, Dwight Bibby R, Arya F, Cristin L, Anwar S, Higuchi S, Hsia H, Lee YJ, Delling FN

Mitral Annular Disjunction: An Under-Recognized Entity in Pediatrics.

JACC. Case reports

Alfares FA, Sohn JH, Lee YJ, Farrell R, Delling FN, Avasarala K, Moon-Grady AJ, Anwar S, Austin KM

Interstitial Fibrosis and Arrhythmic Mitral Valve Prolapse: Unravelling Sex-Based Differences.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Tastet L, Dixit S, Nguyen T, Lim LJ, Al-Akchar M, Bibby D, Arya F, Cristin L, Anwar S, Higuchi S, Hsia H, Lee YJ, Delling FN

Myocarditis in children after COVID-19 vaccine.

Annals of pediatric cardiology

Aljohani OA, Arcilla L, Kaushik N, Cresalia NM, Li B, Edwell AA, Ramirez AM, Anwar S

First in Human: Transcatheter Repair of Isolated Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return.

Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions

Tuwairqi K, Salahuddin A, Judson G, Blusztein D, Moore P, Anwar S, Mahadevan VS

Criss-cross heart three-dimensional printed models in medical education: A multicenter study on their value as a supporting tool to conventional imaging.

Anatomical sciences education

Valverde I, Gomez G, Byrne N, Anwar S, Silva Cerpa MA, Martin Talavera M, Pushparajah K, Velasco Forte MN

COVID-19 Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Adolescents.

Pediatrics

Jain SS, Steele JM, Fonseca B, Huang S, Shah S, Maskatia SA, Buddhe S, Misra N, Ramachandran P, Gaur L, Eshtehardi P, Anwar S, Kaushik N, Han F, Chaudhuri NR, Grosse-Wortmann L

3D printing for preoperative planning and surgical simulation of ventricular assist device implantation in a failing systemic right ventricle.

Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography

Miller JR, Singh GK, Woodard PK, Eghtesady P, Anwar S

Potts Shunt Improves Right Ventricular Function and Coupling With Pulmonary Circulation in Children With Suprasystemic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging

Aggarwal M, Grady RM, Choudhry S, Anwar S, Eghtesady P, Singh GK

3D Printing is a Transformative Technology in Congenital Heart Disease.

JACC. Basic to translational science

Anwar S, Singh GK, Miller J, Sharma M, Manning P, Billadello JJ, Eghtesady P, Woodard PK

3D Printing Provides a Precise Approach in the Treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot, Pulmonary Atresia with Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries.

Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine

Anwar S, Rockefeller T, Raptis DA, Woodard PK, Eghtesady P

Comparison of two-dimensional strain analysis using vendor-independent and vendor-specific software in adult and pediatric patients.

JRSM cardiovascular disease

Anwar S, Negishi K, Borowszki A, Gladding P, Popovic ZB, Erenberg F, Thomas JD

3D Printing in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Rapid Prototyping in Cardiac Disease: 3D Printing the Heart

3D Printing in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Rapid Prototyping in Cardiac Disease: 3D Printing the Heart

Anwar S, Singh GK, Petrucci O, Eghtesady P, Woodard PK, Billadello JJ.

3D Printing in Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Across a Spectrum of Age, Pathology, and Imaging Techniques.

JACC. Cardiovascular imaging

Anwar S, Singh GK, Varughese J, Nguyen H, Billadello JJ, Sheybani EF, Woodard PK, Manning P, Eghtesady P

Myocarditis

Moss & Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Including the Fetus and Young Adult

Simpson K, Anwar S, Canter CE.

Rapid resolution of cardiac rhabdomyomas following everolimus therapy.

BMJ case reports

Choudhry S, Nguyen HH, Anwar S

Pediatric chest pain: findings on exercise stress testing.

Clinical pediatrics

Anwar S, Kavey RE

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the noncoronary cusp: not a benign lesion.

Pediatric cardiology

Anwar S, Brook M, Mavroudis C, Hobbs R, Lorber R

Pulmonary atresia with aortopulmonary and coronary artery collaterals: precise depiction by low-dose computed tomography.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Anwar S, Qureshi AM, Arruda J, Bolen MA