Committee Biography

Dr. Bokhari graduated with an Honor degree from KAAU in 1993. Then he moved to Canada where he joined University of Toronto and did his training in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology. He finished all his Fellowships and Joined KFAFH Military Hospital in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and has been working as a consultant electrophysiologist and interventional Cardiologist since then. Dr. Bokhari lectured widely in almost all teaching Hospitals in Toronto, Canada, including University Health Network, St. Michael's Hospital and Sunny Brookes Hospital. He was cited as having made a positive contribution to the education of many junior residents in March 2001, by the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. He was honored by the Saudi Council to be the clinical program director of the Saudi Electrophysiology Board Training Program. He presented a research project about prophylactic ICD implantation at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Berlin, 2002. I also presented another research project entitled “Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator vs. Amiodarone at CCS and AHA meeting, 2002. This project has been selected as the 75th Anniversary Featured Research Session and was included in “ Sessions On-line 2002” by the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions Program Committee and was one of the few oral sessions that was broadcasted immediately following the presentation because of its important contents. This Session was also broadcasted in the heart.org summary of important AHA 2002 Sessions.