Rami Doukky, M.D, F.A.C.C.

  Dr. Doukky is a graduate of Aleppo University Medical School (Aleppo, Syria). He trained in internal medicine at Cook County Hospital, where he served a year as a chief medical resident; he also did his cardiology fellowship at the same institution.

  He is currently the director of nuclear cardiology, and the acting director of the non-invasive cardiology and echocardiography laboratories at John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County. He is also a staff member at Rush - St. Luke University Medical Center (Chicago, IL) where he is mostly involved in the echocardiography and nuclear cardiology services.

  Dr. Doukky is Board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, nuclear cardiology (CBNC), and echocardiography (NBE). His clinical interests include echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, valvular heart disease, diastology and risk stratification of stable and unstable coronary artery disease.

  His current research work includes echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular mass and diastolic left ventricular function in African American patients newly diagnosed with diabetes mellitus with and without hypertension; echocardiographic assessment of diastolic left ventricular heart function response to glycemic control in patients with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus; and clinical and transthoracic echocardiography predictors in the diagnoses of infectious endocarditis by transesophageal echocardiography.

  Dr. Doukky is the recipient of teacher of the year award from the cardiology fellows at Rush University Medical Center for the academic year 2003-2004.