{"id":38103,"date":"2025-08-01T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38103\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:23:11","slug":"ahs-recruits-cardiologist-to-red-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38103\/","title":{"rendered":"AHS recruits cardiologist to Red Deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHS says his clinical practice covers a wide range of conditions, including ischemic heart disease, hypertension, arrhythmias, heart failure and valvular heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753405088_218_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome this exceptional physician to our local care team,\u201d said Adriana LaGrange, Minister of Primary and Preventative Health Services and MLA for Red Deer-North, in a media release. \u201cHis extensive expertise and dedication to advancing cardiac care will greatly benefit our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AHS says he began his journey in medical education in Pakistan before he completed specialized training in cardiology and general internal medicine in the United Kingdom. The health agency says Dr. Shoaib has a doctorate in heart failure from the University of Hull and finished fellowships in interventional cardiology in Canada and the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say he\u2019s also published more than 58 peer-reviewed articles, and serves as an honourary associate professor at Aston University in Birmingham, U.K., where he mentors students and junior doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Canada, AHS says Dr. Shoaib served as a consultant cardiologist at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome this esteemed physician,\u201d adds Jason Stephan, MLA for Red Deer-South. \u201cHis cardiac expertise and unwavering commitment to patient care will greatly strengthen health services across Red Deer and the surrounding area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AHS says his clinical practice covers a wide range of conditions, including ischemic heart disease, hypertension, arrhythmias, heart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-38103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}