WIRE — In an intensive care unit at Kasr Al-Ainy Hospital, where cardiac crises unfold in minutes rather than hours, Alia Hassan Abdel Fattah spent much of her career arguing for a tool that few of her colleagues thought belonged there: the nuclear imaging scanner. Three decades later, that argument has earned her one of cardiology's highest global honors. Abdel Fattah, a professor of critical care medicine at Cairo University's Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, has been selected by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) to receive its 2026 Gold Medal for Global Impact in Nuclear Cardiology, the society's field-defining recognition for physicians who have advanced the discipline worldwide. She is set to accept the medal in person at the 31st ASNC Annual Scientific Session in Las Vegas, taking place from 16 to 19 September. The award recognizes her career and work to adapt elective heart care to the chaos of the intensive care unit, where critically ill patients are often too unstable to wait for conventional testing. Abdel Fattah, the former head of Kasr Al-Ainy's Critical Care Department, is one of the first physicians anywhere to fold nuclear cardiology intoContinue reading "Egyptian Cardiologist Alia Abdel Fattah Wins Global Award for Heart Imaging" The post Egyptian Cardiologist Alia Abdel Fattah Wins Global Award for Heart Imaging first appeared on Egyptian Streets.
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