Dr. Amir Hanafi

Amir Hanafi

MD

Rochester, NY

Professional Summary

Hospitalist at Unity hospital. Finished internal medicine Training in June 2021. Chief medical resident at Unity hospital IM program 2021-2022. Extensive clinical experience on an international scale. Exposure to a diverse array of patients and clinical settings throughout medical training. Skilled in providing inpatient and outpatient care with a focus on improving quality of care and medical education. Worked with medical students from Weill-Cornell medical school in Qatar as well as LECOM students at Unity hospital in Rochester NY.

  1. Providing high quality medical care as a hospitalist to adult patients.
  2. Teaching medical students and residents in various clinical settings.
  3. Working in teams and collaborating for attaining excellence in medical practice as well as improving quality of health care in medical systems.
  4. Working in state-of-the-art medical settings and getting involved in clinical informatics.

Hospitalist physician

October 2021 to present

Unity hospital – department of medicine

Day rounder with admitting privileges as part of hospitalist group at Unity hospital. Day census is 20-24 patients per day with residents and independently.

Chief Medical resident

June 2021 to July 2022

Rochester Regional Health/Unity Hospital – Rochester, NY

Was the chief medical resident of the internal medicine residency program (PGY-4) at Unity hospital in Rochester, New York.

Resident Physician

June 2018 to June 2021

Rochester Regional Health/Unity Hospital – Rochester, NY

Trained in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Exposure to palliative care, critical care and other medical subspecialties. Was Chief Medical Resident of the internal medicine residency program.

Resident Family Physician

July 2013 to June 2018

Hamad Medical Corporation - Doha, Qatar

Three-year residency training (ACGME-I accredited) involving multiple in-patients as well as outpatient rotations in different sub-specialties of family medicine. Residency also included one month of intensive training in ICU and one month of training in the emergency department. I was part of a team that included an attending, other different level medical residents and medical students as well as a clinical pharmacist.

Interventional Cardiology Fellow

May 2011 to May 2013

National Heart Institute – Cairo, Egypt

Full time training in one of the largest tertiary care centers specializing in heart disease in the Middle East. Rotations included weekly work in the interventional cardiology catheterization lab, the coronary care unit and the cardiac emergency department. I also received basic training in echocardiography during that period. I worked under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Magdy who is a SCAI board of trustees' member.

General Cardiology Fellow

April 2009 to April 2011

Kobry El Kobba Military Complex – Cairo, Egypt

I received my basic cardiology training in the largest military hospital in Egypt taking care of patients and families of Egyptian military personnel. The training involved daily rounds in the CCU and the wards and working in the outpatient setting as well as taking care of cardiac emergencies as well. I worked under the supervision of General Dr. Khalid Shokri who served as the vice president of the Egyptian society of cardiology.

Medical Intern

March 2007 to April 2008

Al-Demerdash hospital (Ain Shams University hospital) – Cairo, Egypt

1 year internship in the Medicine, Cardiology, General Surgery, Obstetrics and gynecology and Orthopedics department of Al-Demerdash Hospital. My responsibilities included taking detailed history of the admitting patients with complete physical examination. I used to formulate the management plan of all the assigned patients under guidance of the attendings. My services were mainly based in the inpatient facilities.

  1. Case report: Lyme carditis presenting as atrial fibrillation. A Zainal, A Hanafi, N Nadkarni, M Mubasher, D Lingutla, R Hoefen. BMJ Case Reports CP 12 (4), e228975
  2. Poster presentation: Prediction of Myocardial Salvage by Modified Selvester QRS Score in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction After Primary PCI. AEM Nayel, S Sabet, A Sammy. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions 7 (2 Supplement), S13
  3. Case report: Postpartum Pulmonary Hypertension Masquerading as Sub massive Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report and a Literature Review. M Mubasher, A Hanafi, T Syed, A Zinal, IY Abubeker, MFH Mohamed. Case Reports in Pulmonology 2020
  4. Case report: Drug-Induced Liver Injury Caused by Bupivacaine. ST Ahmed, S Patel, S Kamal, M Mubasher, A Hanafi, Y Zhao, YJ Lee. American Journal of Therapeutics
  5. Case report: WHEN THE POSTPARTUM PULMONARY HYPERTENSION PRESENTED AS SUBMASSIVE PULMONARY EMBOLISM. M Mubasher, A Hanafi, T Syed, D Mohammed, R Hoefen. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 75 (11 Supplement 1), 2806
  6. Original Manuscript: SHORT-TERM MORTALITY AND USE OF MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT IN WOMEN WITH CARDIOGENIC SHOCK: SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCES. M Mubasher, T Syed, A Hanafi, A Salama, N Nadkarni, E Alotaki, C Hall. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 75 (11 Supplement 1), 772
  7. Case report: THE GREAT MASQUERADER: CARDIAC ANGIOSARCOMA MIMICKING THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIA PURPURA. M Mubasher, A Hanafi, T Syed, M Zambon, R Hoefen. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 75 (11 Supplement 1), 2655
  8. Images in medicine: torus palatinus. A Hanafi, R Alweis. Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives 9 (4), 367-368
  9. Case report: A Case of Reversible Splenial Lesion Syndrome in early post-partum period. ZA Mahmood Mubasher, Amir Hanafi, Christopher Schaeffer. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery 17, 7-9
  10. Original article: A white paper on artificial intelligence in radiology, getting over the hype. SM Shalaby, M El-Badawy, A Mahmoud, K AboZied. Radiology 288 (2), 318-328**
  11. Fatal Itching and Failing Liver: A Case Report and Literature Review of Rare, Atypical DRESS (Drug Rash with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms) Syndrome. Abusuliman M, Amreia M, Rehman S, Chaudhary AJ, Abosheaishaa H, Jamali T, Hanafi A. Cureus 16 (3), 2024
  12. Outcomes of mitral valve transcatheter edge to edge repair in patients with coronary chronic total occlusion. Ahmed A, Eisa M, Takla A, Arora S, Mohamed M, Hanafi A, Feitell S. Future Cardiology 20 (15-16), 843-847, 2024
  13. Temporal trends and procedural safety of mitral valve transcatheter edge to edge repair in patients with previous CABG. Ahmed A, Eisa M, Takla A, Arora S, Mohamed MS, Hanafi A, Feitell S. Future Cardiology 21 (1), 15-22, 2025
  14. IMPACT OF CABG HISTORY ON CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS POST-VT ABLATION: A DECADE-LONG ANALYSIS WITH PROPENSITY WEIGHTING. Eisa M, Hanafi AM. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 85 (12_Supplement), 241-241, 2025
  15. Impact of Mavacamten on blood pressure in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy. Shehadeh M, Eid F, Rahhal A, Hanafi A, Eid M, Baibhav B. Circulation 150 (Suppl_1), A4145121-A4145121, 2024
  16. PO-04-143 DIFFERENCES IN IN-HOSPITAL OUTCOMES OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ABLATION IN PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING: AN NIS (NATIONAL INPATIENT SAMPLE) STUDY. Salar T, Salar M, Eisa M, Salar H, Hanafi A, Karki R. Heart Rhythm 22 (4), S495-S496, 2025
  17. In-Hospital Complications of Hybrid vs. Endocardial AF Ablation. Eisa M, Naeem N, Elbenawi H, Ahmed A, Takla A, Hanafi A, Deshmukh AJ, DeSimone CV, Rao M. Heart Rhythm O2, 2025
  18. In-hospital outcomes of catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting. Eisa M, Elbenawi H, Zordok M, Hady EH, Saif R, Hanafi A, Rao M, Patel H, Lee JZ, Deshmukh AJ. Heart Rhythm O2, 2025
  19. In-hospital complications of hybrid vs endocardial atrial fibrillation ablation. Ahmed A, Takla A, Hanafi A, Deshmukh AJ, DeSimone CV, Rao M. Heart Rhythm 2, 1-9, 2025

**I have used the name A Mahmoud for publications prior to 2018 and A Hanafi after 2018.

Professional bedside manner
Hospice and palliative care experience
Adept at prioritizing/managing tasks
Culturally competent care
Multilingual (English, Arabic, some French, some Spanish)
Patient-focused care
EMR proficient (EPIC, Cerner)
Competent in physical assessments
ALS certified

Faculty of medicine, Ain Shams University

2007 Cairo, Egypt

MBBS

Department of cardiovascular disease

Faculty of medicine, Ain Shams University

2013 Cairo, Egypt

MSc

Arab board of medical specialization certification in Family medicine

2018

Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

American board of internal medicine certification

2021

Unity hospital – RRH, Rochester, NY

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