M. RizwanSohailMDFIDSA

Summary

• Dr. Sohail is a Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. His research interests is in cardiovascular infections, including native and prosthetic valve infective endocarditis, vascular closure device infections, cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections, ventricular assist device infections, and vascular graft infections. He has published over 190 original peer-reviewed articles in major medical journals such as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Archives of Internal Medicine, Circulation, Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, American Journal of Cardiology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, Catheterization Cardiovascular Intervention, and Mayo Clinic Proceedings, among others. These papers address important clinical questions related to the epidemiology, risk factors, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, complications, outcomes and cost associated with cardiovascular infections. In addition, he has authored 29 book chapters on endocarditis and device infections.
  
  Being an expert in the field of cardiovascular infections, Dr Sohail has been an invited speaker at the meetings of the Heart Rhythm Society, the American Heart Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the European Society of Cardiology, among others. In addition, he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Naples in Italy.
  
  He is currently a member of the Council of Clinical Cardiology, and the Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research for the American Heart Association. He is reviewer of numerous scientific journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and JAMA.