Nationality: United States of America
Licensure: New Jersey: 25 MA 07482100
Pennsylvania: MD 415714
Board Certification: Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine Diplomate American Board of Cardiology
Diplomate Board of Nuclear Cardiology
Diplomate American Board of Interventional Cardiology
Member Royal College of Physicians, MRCP (UK)
Registered Physician for Vascular Interpretation
Membership of Professional Organizations:
American Medical Association
General Medical Council of United Kingdom
American College of Cardiology
Education:
1989 University of Punjab, Lahore Pakistan.
1994 Royal College of Physicians in UK (MRCP)
2002 American Board of Internal Medicine
2005 American Board of Cardiology
2006Society of Coronary intervention
Present Position
August 2006- present Invasive/ Interventional Cardiologist
Capital Cardiology Associates/ Capital Health
System Trenton, NJ
Post-graduate Clinical Training:
August 2005-July 2006 Interventional Cardiology Fellow
Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia
Aug 2002-July 2005 Chief Cardiology Fellow, Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center, Newark, NJ
July 2000–July 2002 Resident in Internal Medicine
Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia
Fellowship training in Cardiology in Great Britain:
May 1999-June 2000 Registrar (Fellow) in Cardiology
Southwest Cardio Thoracic Center- Plymouth
Sept 1996¬-April 1999 Research Fellow Cardiology/Internal Medicine
Havering Hospitals NHS Trust, Romford and
Royal Hospitals NHS Trust
Oct 1994-Sep 1996 Registrar (Fellow) in Cardiology
Wrexham Maelor Hospital Wrexham, UK
Residency Training in Internal Medicine:
March 1993-September 1994 Resident in Internal Medicine
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead
August 1992-Feb 1992 Resident Internal Medicine
Hartlepool and Dews bury general hospitals UK
Jan 1990-July 1992 Medical Office Punjab Health Department
Okara, Punjab. Pakistan.
Research Interests: Acute Coronary Syndrome
Silent Ischemia in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Measurement and Reduction of Burden with Pharmacological Intervention
Coronary Lipid Assessment
Current Active Projects: Coronary Atherosclerosis; Is there any difference in Coronary, Ascending Aorta, and Peripheral Venous Lipid Levels
Awards and Honors:
1. Punjab (Competitive board ) Government Scholarship Award 1980- 1982, 1984-1989
2. Distinction (First position) in Punjab Selection Commission Examination
3. Distinction in Final MBBS exam in Surgery and Ophthalmology.
4. Best Teacher Award by Residents of Capital Health System 2008
Training in Invasive/ Interventional Cardiology
Routine Right and Left Heart Catheterization.
Coronary Interventions Procedures:
My Experience in Interventional Cardiology includes Percutaneous Intervention and Stent deployment of Coronary and Peripheral arteries, Rotational Atherectomy, Angiojet, pressure/flo wire, deployment of distal protection and intra-vascular ultrasound assessment.
Peripheral Vascular Intervention
Since 2006, I have been independently performing all kind of Peripheral vascular procedures including but not limited to PTA, Stenting, Directional and rotational atherectomy, IVUS and Laser atherectomy. Interventions of all vascular beds including Renal, SMA, Ileac, SFA and below the knee disease. I am also proficient in Pedal access approach for difficult CTO cases.
Structural Heart Disease Procedures:
Transaortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
Impella Device Insertion
EKOS treatment
Training in Non-Invasive Cardiology
Cardiac MRI and CT Angiography
Hands on training in CT Angiography and Cardiac MRI at NBIMC non-invasive Cardiovascular laboratory.
TEE and Stress Echocardiogram
Level II training in both TEE and stress Echocardiography.
Nuclear Cardiology
Level II training in reading nuclear cardiology stress scans
Clinical Research:
Sub–Investigator:
Safety and effect on anticoagulation of rising doses of long acting PEG-Hirudin (LU87981) in patients with unstable angina or non Q- wave infarction, Sponsor Knoll AG
Effect of Metoprolol CR/XL in chronic heart failure. MERIT-HF trial investigators.
A multicentre study published in Lancet.
OPUS TIMI 16 trial. Looking at the efficacy of Orbifiban (GPIIb/IIIa inhibitor) in patients with acute Coronary Syndromes.
Enoxaprin prevents death and myocardial infarction in patients with unstable angina and non-q wave myocardial infarction, a Multicentre trial for the efficacy of Enoxaprin.
Grant Funding:
Sanofi-Winthrop/Bristol Myers Squibb 1999-2000 $25,000
Role of ADP receptor blocker Clopidogrel compared with Clopidogrel and Aspirin in reducing the burden of silent ischaemia in patients with acute coronary syndromes.
PRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MEETINGS:
1. Conference on acute Coronary Syndromes organised by "The Lancet" July 1999 in Copenhagen Denmark
2. Asia Pacific Congress of Cardiology in Lahore, Pakistan, 17-21 October 1999.
3. European Conference on Management of Ischaemic heart disease in Nice, France,
17-19 April 2000
4. British Cardiac Society Glasgow, UK May 2000
5. Society of Cardiac angiography and intervention April 29th-May 1st 2004, San Diego, USA
6. ICI meeting 2018- Tel-Aviv. Dec 2-4 2018. Role of Distal Intracoronary Adenosine in treatment of abrupt coronary occlusion
Community Education/Seminars
Coronary Stents, past, present and future. Presented at Capital Health System Hamilton campus- March 2009
Preventing Heart Attacks, presented at Jewish Community Centre in Hamilton, NJ - April 2015
Preventing Heart Attacks by the teachings of Islam, Presented at Islamic Centre of Central Jersey - May 2017
Extracurricular activities
Chairman Rahbar Trust
Actively involved in management of a multinational charity organization with projects in countries including United State of America, South Africa, Gambia, West Africa, Jordan, and Pakistan. It involves taking care of most needy and desperate people in most impoverished societies including Syrian and Rohingya refugees. The work includes interest free loans, vocational training for deserving girls and free cataract surgeries for very deserving patients. Further info can be accessed at www.rahbartrust.org
Bibliography:
Peer-reviewed journals
Mustafa MUA, Baker CS, Stephens JD. Spontaneously terminating ventricular fibrillation and a systole induced by silent ischaemia causing recurrent syncope. Heart 1998; 80; 86-88.
Mustafa MU, Kemp M, Hooper J, Kadr H, Stephens JD. Role of Peg Hirudin Compared with unfractionated heparin in reducing the burden of silent ischaemia in Patients with acute coronary syndromes. British journal of Cardiology 2000; 7 12 771-777
Majid, A MD, Mustafa MU MD, Kadr H MD, Stephens J MD, Management of Acute Coronary syndrome in a district Journal hospital, British Journal of Cardiology. December 2001 712- 716
Mustafa MU, Maqsood A and Cohen Marc MD. The role of Troponins (T&I) in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome: where do we stand in 2003? Acute Coronary Syndromes 2003; 6(2): 61–6
Mustafa, MU, MD, Chen Chunguang MD, Cohen Marc MD.
Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy in the era of cardiac MRI. Journal of Invasive Cardiology 2004; 6(6): 340
Mustafa, MU, MD, Cohen M, MD, F.S.C.A.I., Zapotulko K, MHA, Feinberg M, RN, Miller M, PHD, Aueron F, MD, Wasty N, MD, Tanwir A MD and Rogal G, MD. The complex relation between physician operator volume and percutaneous coronary intervention complications in the era of coronary stenting: a multi-center experience. IJCP Volume 59 Page 1401 - December 2005
Chikezie Alvarez, Hafiz Muhammad Aslam Sara Wallach, Muhammad U. Mustafa. A Large Grade 5 Mobile Aortic Arch Atheromatous Plaque: Cause of Cerebrovascular Accident – Published April 2018
MuhammetOzer, SuleymanYasinGoksu, Ali Shahverdiani, MuhammadMustafa
Lactobacillus acidophilus-Induced Endocarditis and Associated Splenic Abscess. Case reports in infectious disease. Volume 2020, Article ID 1382709, Published 4 April 2020
Selected Abstracts
Mustafa MU. Kemp M, Hooper J, Kadr H, Stephens JD. Peg Hirudin reduces the burden of silent ischaemia in patients with acute coronary syndromes. (Abstract) The lancet (Suppl) July 1999; 52-53
Mustafa MU, Kemp M, Hooper J, Card H, Stephens JD. The correlation of troponin I with silent ischemia as an independent risk determinant in patients with acute coronary syndrome. (Abstract) Journal of Asia pacific congress of Cardiology (Suppl) October 1999 Page 30
Mustafa MU. Kemp M, Hooper J, Kadr H, Stephens JD. Peg Hirudin compared with unfractionated heparin reduces the episodes of ST segment depression in unstable angina and non-Q wave myocardial infarction. (Abstract) Heart, June 2000, 83; A1.
Mustafa MU, Cohen Marc, Zapotulko Katrina, Feinberg Monica, Miller Mike, Aueron Fred, Tanwir Anjum, Wasty Najam, Rogal Gary. The complex relation between physician operator volume and percutaneous coronary intervention complications in the era of coronary stenting: a multi-center experience (abstract) Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions, May 2004 62; 1: 113.
Mustafa MU, Marc Cohen, Tsang P, Szmal, Eva, Tanwir, Anjum, Ahmed Masood, Najam Wasty, Hussain Salim, Atherley Trevor. Coronary atherosclerosis; is there any difference in distal coronary arterial, Ascending aorta, and peripheral venous sample. (Submitted to ACC for 2006).
Shakwan Rashid, Hewa Faraj, Mustafa, MU, Daniel Gold smith
Chest pain increased by Nitroglycerine! Best poster award at AMA NJ chapter annual poster presentation. Feb 5th 2010
EKOS method of CDT; an effective treatment of submassive PE when thrombolytic and systemic anticoagulation fails
Maniz Zehra Abbas, Luma Aldabbagh, Muhmmad Ozer, Mohammed Omar, Mohammad Usman Mustafa ACP oral presentation April 29th
Manuscript submitted to Peer reviewed journals
Anjum Tanwir MD, Mustafa MU MD, Pinnales D MD: Simultaneous ST-segment Elevations in Precordial and Inferior Leads on an ECG (Journal of invasive cardiology)
Anjum Tanwir, MD; Mustafa MU MD; and Trevor Atherley, MD, A Novel Aetiology of the “Systolic Honk (Heart)
Editorial positions:
Contributing Editor/Reviewer: Cardiology News journal (editor-in-Chief: Stuart Pringle MD). This journal covers the leading research in all fields of Cardiology.
Books Reviews:
1. Essential Cardiology Edited by Adam D Timmis, Anthony Nathan and Ian D Sullivan. Published by Blackwell science Ltd. November 1997. Published in UK
2. Endocardial lead extraction. Avideotape and manual by Peter H Belott MD published by Futura Publications Company Armonk New York. 1998.
Published Books:
Easy Way to Pass Step Two CS: Tutor's practical guide for Step 2 CS Preparation by Muhammad Mustafa, published 2009