Tahir Kafil, MD, FRCPC

Advanced Clinical Fellow
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Dr. Tahir Kafil, MD, FRCPC, ABIM Board Certified (Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Advanced Heart Failure).
Dr. 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 and MYCOVACC, both assessing rare cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 vaccination. For his research work he was awarded the prestigious Myocarditis Foundation's Fellowship Grant. He is presently pursuing further training in Echocardiography and Advanced Cardiac Imaging at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, USA. His research interests are in all etiologies of Myocarditis and pericarditis, cardiovascular manifestations of autoimmune disease, and Cardiac Sarcoidosis. He brings the combined lens of Advanced Heart Failure and Multimodality Cardiac Imaging to help his patients.

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Presentation(s):

• VACCINE-ASSOCIATED MYOCARDITIS: INSIGHTS FROM THE CCS MYCOVACC SURVEILLANCE STUDY (CCC-109)

  Thursday, October 26, 2023
  09:45 – 10:30 EST

• CCS/ESC JOINT PLENARY: MULTIMODALITY IMAGING FOR THE DX AND MANAGEMENT OF HEART FAILURE (CCC-123)

  Thursday, October 26, 2023
  14:00 – 15:00 EST