Adel Khalifa Sultan Hamad is a consultant cardiologist and Bahrain’s first interventional cardiac electrophysiologist. He is the head of the electrophysiology department; cardiac pacing and tachyarrhyhmia devices in Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Cardiac Centre at Bahrain Defence Force Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine and adult cardiology from University of Toronto, Canada. Subsequently he did a sub-specialty clinical fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at Toronto General Hospital. During his cardiology residency and clinical fellowship years he did a research focusing on the “Spatial organization of ventricular fibrillation in explanted Langendorff human heart” which he presented in the annual Ursula Bangs Clinical and Research day at University of Toronto. Subsequently he presented his research poster at the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Meeting in Montreal/Canada. After returning from Canada he established the country’s first electrophysiology (EP) laboratory in 2010, established an advanced EP program utilizing 3D mapping system in 2012 and established a program for cryoablation of atrial fibrillation in 2016. Dr. Hamad was the past president and founding board member of the Gulf Heart Rhythm Society (GHRS). Additionally, he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Fellow of the Westminster College in Vancouver and Fellow of the Gulf Heart Association. He is a speaker in local, regional and international conferences. He received the following honors and decorations; Hawar Medal of a first grade, Military Assessment Medal 1st Class and Medal of Courage. He is also a co-principle investigator of the Gulf ICD and Gulf S-ICD registries. His research interests include atrial fibrillation, new oral anticoagulants, cardiac devices and sudden cardiac death.

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