Ami E. Iskandrian, MD is the Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Radiology and the Director of the Nuclear Cardiology Program at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. After graduating from the University of Baghdad Medical School in 1965 he moved to Philadelphia, where he completed residencies in internal medicine and cardiology at Hahnemann University. Dr. Iskandrian was named Professor of Medicine at Hahnemann in 1983 and served as Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the Hahnemann Cardiovascular Institute. He also served as a Professor of Medicine at Allegheny University and the Philadelphia Heart Institute. He moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1999.

Dr. Iskandrian is an author of many professional publications including the Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology: Imaging Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease.