Dr. Ala Eldin Farasin

Dr. Ala Eldin Farasin is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at NMC Specialty Hospital in Dubai, with 15 years of clinical experience. He is German Board Certified in Cardiology and Angiology, and completed his medical education at the University of Heidelberg. Previously, he led the invasive cardiology section at Diakonissenkrankenhaus (Deaconess Hospital) in Mannheim, Germany, where he managed cardiac catheterization laboratories and directed complex heart procedures.

Dr. Farasin's expertise covers a broad range of heart and blood vessel treatments. He has performed over 6,000 coronary interventions (procedures to open narrowed heart arteries) and 1,000 interventional angiology procedures including stenting of leg, kidney, and neck arteries. He specialises in structural heart disease — treating problems with heart valves and abnormal heart chambers — as well as implanting pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators (ICD devices), and closing heart defects such as PFO (a hole between heart chambers) and LAA (irregular pouch in the heart). He also manages diabetic patients with vascular disease and provides emergency cardiac care.

Dr. Farasin is fluent in English, Arabic, and German, and takes a patient-centred approach focused on clinical outcomes. He is a good fit for patients needing complex interventional heart or vascular procedures, device implantation, or emergency cardiac care.