Dr. Samy Abdelghani is a New Orleans native and received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Tulane University. He completed medical school at the Tulane University School of Medicine, and finished an internal medicine residency at the University of California - Irvine. 

Dr. Abdelghani went on to perform a cardiology fellowship at the John Ochsner Heart & Vascular Institute, where he served as chief fellow.  He is board certified in cardiology, internal medicine, nuclear cardiology & echocardiography and has been on staff at Ochsner since 2015. 

Dr. Abdelghani's expertise is in non-invasive imaging, preventative cardiology, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, nuclear imaging, stress testing, valvular heart disease, hypertension, congestive heart failure, and ischemic heart disease.