Faisal Rahman, BMBCh, FACC, FSCAI

Interventional structural cardiologist and director of cardiogenic shock at Johns Hopkins Medicine; assistant professor of cardiology and director of interventional cardiology fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

There are interventional cardiologists. There are structural heart specialists. There are cardiogenic shock experts. And there are fellowship directors who shape the next generation of the field. Dr. Rahman is all four at once.  

Trained at the University of Oxford (BMBCh), Boston University Medical Center and Johns Hopkins, Faisal joined the Hopkins faculty with a pedigree that few early-career cardiologists can match. After serving on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, he was recruited back to Johns Hopkins in 2022. All he’s done since then is build Hopkins’s cardiogenic shock program from the ground up and serve as the institution’s principal investigator for the national Cardiogenic Shock Working Group.  

In the cath lab, his nominator—Dr. Jon Resar, section chief of interventional cardiology at Hopkins—has described Dr. Rahman’s procedural outcomes as “superlative across the full spectrum of coronary and structural heart procedures.” Similarly, his fellows consistently rate his teaching at the highest level. 

Dr. Faisal Rahman, 39 years old at nomination time for Cardiovascular Business’s “40 Under 40” for 2026, is producing the next generation of Hopkins-trained interventional cardiologists while simultaneously advancing the scientific and clinical standards of cardiogenic shock management nationally. The field will benefit from his influence for many years to come.