Subhi Al'Aref, MD, FACC

Subhi Al'Aref
Interventional Cardiologist

UAMS
Little Rock, Arkansas

Interventional cardiologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and UAMS Health in Little Rock   

It is rare for an interventional cardiologist to conduct high caliber research, be a clinical innovator, publish patents and textbooks—and still be under 40 years of age. 

Subhi has done all that and more. His present academic appointments at UAMS include program director of the interventional cardiology fellowship and associate professor of medicine and radiology. In the past he served UAMS as director of cardiac catheterization laboratories and director of cardiac CT. Earlier, at Weill Cornell in New York City, he was an assistant professor of medicine.  

He also currently works as an assistant attending physician at the Central Arkansas VA as well as at UAMS.  

Among his notable recent honors and awards: 

  • Best Poster Abstract at the 2024 annual membership meeting of the Arkansas Medical Society 
  • Interventional cardiology attending physician of the year for UAMS, Arkansas Heart Hospital and the John L. McClellan Memorial VA Hospital 
  • Healthcare Research All-Star at UAMS for 2024 

His patents include: 

  • Acoustic transponders for wireless pressure monitoring using flexible acoustic resonators (Patent US11918319B2 – published 05/03/2024s). 
  • Application of MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound for cardiac arrhythmia treatment (Application ID WO2019237109A1 – published 12/12/2019). 
  • Augmented reality guided system for cardiac interventional surgery (Application ID US20200405397A1 – published 31/12/2020s). 
  • 4-D personalized, AI-guided motion-gated coronary CTA scanning technique (Application ID WO2023102441A1 – published 08/06/2023). 
  • Conformal, non-occluding sensor array for cardiac mapping and ablation (Patent US12005159B2 – published 11/06/2024). 

Further, Dr. Al’Aref has presented 20 or so invited lectures and courses, authored eight book chapters, co-authored two textbooks, and co-authored more than 100 articles and more than 50 abstracts for peer-reviewed scientific journals. In addition, he is a manuscript reviewer for more than 15 journals and a grant reviewer for three institutions. He has led extracurricular courses in workshops, labs and courses.   

Finally, Subhi maintains fluency in English, Arabic and Hebrew while being conversational in French.