Cardiologist
CCS Member
Mayo Clinic
Dr. Tahir Kafil completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Adult Cardiology Fellowship at Western University in London, Ontario. He subsequently completed his Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Fellowship at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. During his time in Ottawa, he helped establish the Post-Vaccine Myopericarditis Clinic. He is a co-Investigator in the CIHR-funded COVID-VIHPR study assessing rare cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 vaccination. For his research work he was awarded the prestigious Myocarditis Foundation's Fellowship Grant. Dr. Kafil then moved to the United States and completed further training in Advanced Cardiac Imaging at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. While there, he won the Lawrence Award for Cardiac Imaging Research. After completing his Advanced Cardiac Imaging and Heart Failure training, he started on Faculty at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota as a Staff Cardiologist. He is active in the Center for Cardiac Sarcoidosis and Myocarditis, and Center for Pericardial Diseases at Mayo Clinic.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
125 - POST-VACCINE MYOCARDITIS AND PERICARDITIS: UPDATE FROM THE CCS MYCOVACC SURVEILLANCE STUDY
Thursday, October 24, 2024
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM PT