Yousif Ahmad is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, where he practices as an Interventional Cardiologist with specific expertise in treating both chronic total occlusions (CTO) and the most complex coronary lesion subsets, as well as performing structural heart interventions for valvular heart disease. He also serves as Associate Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship program at Yale. He has completed several world-leading Fellowships internationally. 

He completed the majority of his undergraduate and postgraduate medical training in the UK where he was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He undertook his General and Interventional Cardiology training at The Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, and holds a PhD in aortic and coronary physiology at Imperial College London. His thesis focused on the interaction between coronary hemodynamics and aortic stenosis and his research saw him awarded the American Heart Association Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award, EuroPCR Young Investigator Award, and American College of Cardiology Young Author Achievement Award. 

He then moved to the US for advanced procedural training and completed dedicated Advanced Fellowships in CTO and Complex/High Risk PCI and Mechanical Circulatory Support (CHIP Fellowship) at Columbia University and in Structural Heart Disease at Cedars-Sinai. He is one of the only physicians to have completed two such Fellowships. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in journals including The Lancet, JAMA Internal Medicine, Circulation, European Heart Journal, and JACC. He is regularly invited to speak and serve as Faculty at leading international conferences.