Shafkat Anwar, MD

Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Joint Appointment with Radiology
Assoc Prof of Clin Pediatrics
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Biography

Dr. Shafkat Anwar is a pediatric cardiologist with a specialty in non-invasive cardiac imaging, including echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

He is the Director of the Pediatric Heart Center's Cardiac MRI and 3D+ Programs. He is also a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies (CA3D+).

He is a founding member and the inaugural Chair of the Advanced 3D+ Visualization Special Interest Group in the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Dr. Anwar completed his internship and residency in Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center, as well as a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.

He completed fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging at Cleveland Clinic and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Prior to joining UCSF, Dr. Anwar was Cardiology Director of Cardiac MRI at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

At Wash. U. Dr. Anwar co-founded and co-directed the Center for 3D Printing, a multi-disciplinary 3D printing center.

Education

Fellowship, Advanced Cardiac Imaging, 2013 - , The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Fellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, 2012 - , Cleveland Clinic
Research Fellowship, 2009 - , National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Residency, Pediatrics, 2008 - , Children's National Medical Center
M.D., 2005 - , The George Washington University

Publications

Alfares FA, Sohn JH, Lee YJ, Farrell R, Delling FN, Avasarala K, Moon-Grady AJ, Anwar S, Austin KM. Mitral Annular Disjunction: An Under-Recognized Entity in Pediatrics. JACC Case Rep. 2024 May 01; 29(9):102297.
Tastet L, Dixit S, Nguyen T, Lim LJ, Al-Akchar M, Bibby D, Arya F, Cristin L, Anwar S, Higuchi S, Hsia H, Lee YJ, Delling FN. Interstitial Fibrosis and Arrhythmic Mitral Valve Prolapse: Unravelling Sex-Based Differences. medRxiv. 2024 Jan 13.
Aljohani OA, Arcilla L, Kaushik N, Cresalia NM, Li B, Edwell AA, Ramirez AM, Anwar S. Myocarditis in children after COVID-19 vaccine. Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2022 May-Jun; 15(3):280-283.
Tuwairqi K, Salahuddin A, Judson G, Blusztein D, Moore P, Anwar S, Mahadevan VS. First in Human: Transcatheter Repair of Isolated Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2022 09; 15(9):e012132.
Valverde I, Gomez G, Byrne N, Anwar S, Silva Cerpa MA, Martin Talavera M, Pushparajah K, Velasco Forte MN. Criss-cross heart three-dimensional printed models in medical education: A multicenter study on their value as a supporting tool to conventional imaging. Anat Sci Educ. 2022 Jul; 15(4):719-730.
Jain SS, Steele JM, Fonseca B, Huang S, Shah S, Maskatia SA, Buddhe S, Misra N, Ramachandran P, Gaur L, Eshtehardi P, Anwar S, Kaushik N, Han F, Chaudhuri NR, Grosse-Wortmann L. COVID-19 Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Adolescents. Pediatrics. 2021 11; 148(5).
Shibbani K, Thattaliyath B, Bunker M, Anwar S, Ashwath R. Double-Outlet Right Ventricle, Pulmonary Atresia, and Discontinuous Branch Pulmonary Arteries Supplied by Bilateral Ducti. JACC Case Rep. 2021 Aug 04; 3(9):1236-1240.
Miller JR, Singh GK, Woodard PK, Eghtesady P, Anwar S. 3D printing for preoperative planning and surgical simulation of ventricular assist device implantation in a failing systemic right ventricle. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2020 Nov - Dec; 14(6):e172-e174.
Patel MD, Myers C, Negishi K, Singh GK, Anwar S. Two-Dimensional Strain is more Precise than Conventional Measures of Left Ventricular Systolic Function in Pediatric Patients. Pediatr Cardiol. 2020 Jan; 41(1):186-193.
Aggarwal M, Grady RM, Choudhry S, Anwar S, Eghtesady P, Singh GK. Potts Shunt Improves Right Ventricular Function and Coupling With Pulmonary Circulation in Children With Suprasystemic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018 12; 11(12):e007964.
Anwar S, Singh GK, Miller J, Sharma M, Manning P, Billadello JJ, Eghtesady P, Woodard PK. 3D Printing is a Transformative Technology in Congenital Heart Disease. JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2018 Apr; 3(2):294-312.
Anwar S, Rockefeller T, Raptis DA, Woodard PK, Eghtesady P. 3D Printing Provides a Precise Approach in the Treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot, Pulmonary Atresia with Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2018 Feb 03; 20(1):5.
Anwar S, Negishi K, Borowszki A, Gladding P, Popovic ZB, Erenberg F, Thomas JD. Comparison of two-dimensional strain analysis using vendor-independent and vendor-specific software in adult and pediatric patients. JRSM Cardiovasc Dis. 2017 Jan-Dec; 6:2048004017712862.
Anwar S, Singh GK, Petrucci O, Eghtesady P, Woodard PK, Billadello JJ.. 3D Printing in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Rapid Prototyping in Cardiac Disease: 3D Printing the Heart. 2017.
Anwar S, Harris MA, Whitehead KK, Keller MS, Goldmuntz E, Fogel MA, Mercer-Rosa L. The Impact of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Patch on Right Ventricular Strain in Tetralogy of Fallot: A Comparison with Valvar Pulmonary Stenosis Utilizing Cardiac Magnetic Resonance. Pediatr Cardiol. 2017 Mar; 38(3):617-623.
Anwar S, Singh GK, Varughese J, Nguyen H, Billadello JJ, Sheybani EF, Woodard PK, Manning P, Eghtesady P. 3D Printing in Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Across a Spectrum of Age, Pathology, and Imaging Techniques. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2017 08; 10(8):953-956.
Simpson K, Anwar S, Canter CE.. Myocarditis. Moss & Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Including the Fetus and Young Adult. 2016.
Choudhry S, Nguyen HH, Anwar S. Rapid resolution of cardiac rhabdomyomas following everolimus therapy. BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Dec 09; 2015.
Nguyen HH, Sheybani E, Manning P, Herman T, Anwar S. Left aortic arch, right descending aorta, and right patent ductus arteriosus: precise depiction of a rare vascular ring with cardiac computed tomography. Circulation. 2015 Apr 14; 131(15):e404-5.
Anwar S, Whitehead KK, Harris MA. Leaving antegrade pulmonary blood flow results in reversal of flow in the azygous vein and decompression of the cavopulmonary circulation: mechanism of cyanosis defined with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Cardiol Young. 2014 Jun; 24(3):515-6.
Anwar S, Kavey RE. Pediatric chest pain: findings on exercise stress testing. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2012 Jul; 51(7):659-62.
Anwar S, Brook M, Mavroudis C, Hobbs R, Lorber R. Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the noncoronary cusp: not a benign lesion. Pediatr Cardiol. 2012 Oct; 33(7):1187-9.
Anwar S, Qureshi AM, Arruda J, Bolen MA. Pulmonary atresia with aortopulmonary and coronary artery collaterals: precise depiction by low-dose computed tomography. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jan 03; 59(1):90.