Shafkat Anwar, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

He is the Director of the Pediatric Heart Center's Cardiac MRI and 3D+ Programs. He is also a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies (CA3D+).

He is a founding member and the inaugural Chair of the Advanced 3D+ Visualization Special Interest Group in the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Dr. Anwar completed his internship and residency in Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center, as well as a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.

He completed fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging at Cleveland Clinic and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Prior to joining UCSF, Dr. Anwar was Cardiology Director of Cardiac MRI at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

At Wash. U. Dr. Anwar co-founded and co-directed the Center for 3D Printing, a multi-disciplinary 3D printing center.

• Criss-cross heart three-dimensional printed models in medical education: A multicenter study on their value as a supporting tool to conventional imaging.
  Anatomical sciences education 2021 Valverde I, Gomez G, Byrne N, Anwar S, Silva Cerpa MA, Martin Talavera M, Pushparajah K, Velasco Forte MN
• COVID-19 Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Adolescents.
  Pediatrics 2021 Jain SS, Steele JM, Fonseca B, Huang S, Shah S, Maskatia SA, Buddhe S, Misra N, Ramachandran P, Gaur L, Eshtehardi P, Anwar S, Kaushik N, Han F, Chaudhuri NR, Grosse-Wortmann L
• Double-Outlet Right Ventricle, Pulmonary Atresia, and Discontinuous Branch Pulmonary Arteries Supplied by Bilateral Ducti.
  JACC. Case reports 2021 Shibbani K, Thattaliyath B, Bunker M, Anwar S, Ashwath R
• 3D printing for preoperative planning and surgical simulation of ventricular assist device implantation in a failing systemic right ventricle.
  Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography 2020 Miller JR, Singh GK, Woodard PK, Eghtesady P, Anwar S
• Two-Dimensional Strain is more Precise than Conventional Measures of Left Ventricular Systolic Function in Pediatric Patients.
  Pediatric cardiology 2019 Patel MD, Myers C, Negishi K, Singh GK, Anwar S
• Potts Shunt Improves Right Ventricular Function and Coupling With Pulmonary Circulation in Children With Suprasystemic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging 2018 Aggarwal M, Grady RM, Choudhry S, Anwar S, Eghtesady P, Singh GK
• 3D Printing Provides a Precise Approach in the Treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot, Pulmonary Atresia with Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries.
  Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine 2018 Anwar S, Rockefeller T, Raptis DA, Woodard PK, Eghtesady P
• Comparison of two-dimensional strain analysis using vendor-independent and vendor-specific software in adult and pediatric patients.
  JRSM cardiovascular disease 2017 Anwar S, Negishi K, Borowszki A, Gladding P, Popovic ZB, Erenberg F, Thomas JD
• 3D Printing in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Rapid Prototyping in Cardiac Disease: 3D Printing the Heart
  3D Printing in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Rapid Prototyping in Cardiac Disease: 3D Printing the Heart 2017 Anwar S, Singh GK, Petrucci O, Eghtesady P, Woodard PK, Billadello JJ.
• The Impact of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Patch on Right Ventricular Strain in Tetralogy of Fallot: A Comparison with Valvar Pulmonary Stenosis Utilizing Cardiac Magnetic Resonance.
  Pediatric cardiology 2017 Anwar S, Harris MA, Whitehead KK, Keller MS, Goldmuntz E, Fogel MA, Mercer-Rosa L
• 3D Printing in Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Across a Spectrum of Age, Pathology, and Imaging Techniques.
  JACC. Cardiovascular imaging 2016 Anwar S, Singh GK, Varughese J, Nguyen H, Billadello JJ, Sheybani EF, Woodard PK, Manning P, Eghtesady P
• Myocarditis
  Moss & Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Including the Fetus and Young Adult 2016 Simpson K, Anwar S, Canter CE.
• Rapid resolution of cardiac rhabdomyomas following everolimus therapy.
  BMJ case reports 2015 Choudhry S, Nguyen HH, Anwar S
• Left aortic arch, right descending aorta, and right patent ductus arteriosus: precise depiction of a rare vascular ring with cardiac computed tomography.
  Circulation 2015 Nguyen HH, Sheybani E, Manning P, Herman T, Anwar S
• Leaving antegrade pulmonary blood flow results in reversal of flow in the azygous vein and decompression of the cavopulmonary circulation: mechanism of cyanosis defined with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
  Cardiology in the young 2013 Anwar S, Whitehead KK, Harris MA
• Pediatric chest pain: findings on exercise stress testing.
  Clinical pediatrics 2012 Anwar S, Kavey RE
• Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the noncoronary cusp: not a benign lesion.
  Pediatric cardiology 2012 Anwar S, Brook M, Mavroudis C, Hobbs R, Lorber R
• Pulmonary atresia with aortopulmonary and coronary artery collaterals: precise depiction by low-dose computed tomography.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2012 Anwar S, Qureshi AM, Arruda J, Bolen MA