
Missouri South Office
|
After receiving his medical degree from the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, Dr. Akel completed an Internal Medicine residency at Indiana University School of Medicine. He then moved to Texas where he attended the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for his Cardiology fellowship and Interventional Cardiovascular fellowship.
Dr. Akel is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology. Dr. Akel performs diagnostic cardiac catheterizations, coronary angioplasties and stents, rotablation and laser atherectomies, rheolytic thrombectomy, peripheral angioplasties and stents, intravascular and intracardiac ultrasounds, brachytherapy, carotid stenting, PFO and ASD closures, aortic endograft implantation, and electrophysiology device implantation and follow-up.
|