Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS) welcomed Dr. Niksad Abraham, interventional cardiologist, to their team of cardiologists at the CIS Baton Rouge clinic, located at 8401 Picardy Avenue.
Abraham joins Drs. Satish Gadi, Garland Green, Amit Patel, Robby Drennan, and Charisse Ward.
Abraham attended medical school at Government Medical College in Calicut, Kerala, India. He worked as a primary care physician and hospitalist in India before moving to Newark, Del., where he completed an internal medicine residency at Christiana Care Health System. This is also where he completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology, being named chief fellow of interventional cardiology. In 2013, he began practicing as a cardiologist at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond, La. In this time, he served as medical director of the cardiac catheterization lab and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine.
Abraham is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, echocardiology, and interventional cardiology. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He has also completed training in cardiac computed tomography angiogram, nuclear cardiology, and vascular ultrasound.