Dr. Mahmoud Traina

Dr. Mahmoud Traina, MD, is a Staff Physician in the Heart and Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Traina was an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, US. He was also Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, where he doubled the capacity of the laboratory and introduced complex coronary interventions and the radial catheterization approach. During this time, Dr. Traina performed over 6,000 cardiac catheterizations, using advanced techniques and minimally invasive approaches.

Dr. Traina was the Associate Program Director of the Cardiology fellowship at UCLA, overseeing the training of over thirty fellows annually. He also served as core faculty of Internal Medicine Residency, supervising over eighty residents every year. He is known as a dedicated educator and has won several teaching awards.

He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, US and received his medical degree from the University of California, Davis, California. His postgraduate training was at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he completed his training in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology.

Dr. Traina’s research interests include optimization of radial access approaches, evaluation and management of cardiomyopathies and novel management of acute heart failure and atrial fibrillation. He has participated in multiple international multicenter trials and has over forty publications and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals. He has also been an invited speaker at both national and international conferences.

Dr. Traina enjoys spending his free time with his wife and two children.

PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY

• 1997 - 2002: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, US. Doctor of Medicine (MD)
• 2002 - 2005: OLIVE VIEW-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, US. Resident, Internal Medicine
• 2009 - 2009: KAISER LOS ANGELES MEDICAL CENTER, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, US. Fellow, Interventional Cardiology
• 2005 - 2008: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES-VETERANS AFFAIRS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, US. Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2009 - 2016: OLIVE VIEW-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER, SYLMAR, CALIFORNIA, US. Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory; Associate Program Director, UCLA Cardiology Fellowship
• 2008 - 2015: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA), LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, US. Associate Professor, Medicine

Achievements & Career Highlights

• Received Most Outstanding Award in Fellow Teaching, UCLA Faculty, Los Angeles, California, US, 2014 to 2015
• American Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology
• Served as Co-Director of the Center of Excellence of Chagas Disease in Los Angeles, California, US, the first center of its kind in the US