Boshra Louka, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Boshra F. Louka, MD, FACC, FSCAI, aspires to make a difference and improve life for patients with cardiovascular disease. He specializes in treating heart patients with structural, valve and coronary interventions, as well as peripheral arterial diseases (PAD). In memory of his own father, Dr. Louka provides medical interventions that reduce patients’ risk of and recovery from heart attack. His treatment philosophy is to always put a patient’s interest first as he makes decisions about a person’s cardiac care to save his or her life.
Extensive medical training for Dr. Louka began at University of Alexandria Medical School in Alexandria, Egypt. His residency training was in the U.S. at NYU Winthrop University Hospital, followed by a year as chief resident at Yale’s New Haven Health System in Connecticut. His subsequent training included a cardiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he was selected to be chief fellow. A second fellowship in interventional cardiology took place at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Louka holds multiple board certifications in internal medicine, interventional cardiology and cardiovascular disease (American Board of Internal Medicine), echocardiography (American Society of Echocardiography) and nuclear cardiology (American Society of Nuclear Cardiology). His professional fellowships in the Society for Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI) and the American College of Cardiography (FACC) keep him in touch with the latest treatments and trends that benefit patients.
Locations
Dr. Louka practices at:
Willis-Knighton Cardiology, A Department of Willis-Knighton Medical Center