Dr. Antonio H. Frangieh received his medical degree from the St. Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon in July 2010. He did his internal medicine and cardiology fellowships at the Hotel Dieu de France Hospital (university hospital) in Beirut and graduated in June 2015 from the Faculty of Medicine of the St. Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon. In January 2014, Dr. Frangieh started a fellowship in interventional cardiology with Professor Thomas Lüscher at the University Hospital Zurich, which he completed at the end of January 2016 and graduated as interventional cardiologist from the Andreas Grüntzig Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the University Heart Center Zurich. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Frangieh was involved in many research projects on acute coronary syndromes, bioresorbable scaffolds, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, MitraClip and left atrial appendage occlusions, and published many papers as first author or co-author in prestigious medical journals.
In witness to his outstanding attributes, Dr. Frangieh was awarded in 2014, a prestigious Swiss Federal post-doctoral excellency scholarship award that provided him with full tuition for training in Switzerland.
Dr. Frangieh is completing his medical training with an additional training focused on structural heart interventions mainly the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) at the German Heart Center – Munich affiliated to the Technical University Munich, Germany.