Egyptian Cardiologist Alia Abdel Fattah Wins Global Award for Heart Imaging

Egyptian Cardiologist Alia Abdel Fattah Wins Global Award for Heart Imaging

In an intensive care unit at Kasr Al-Ainy Hospital, where cardiac crises unfold in minutes rather than hours, Alia Hassan Abdel Fattah spent much of her career arguing for a tool that few of her colleagues thought belonged there: the nuclear imaging scanner. Three decades later, that argument has earned her one of cardiology’s highest global honors. Abdel Fattah, a professor of critical care medicine at Cairo University’s Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of…