Atiar Rahman, MD, is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine ABIM, National Board of Echocardiography, the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology and the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He also served as an associate professor at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He earned his doctorate in cardiovascular physiology from the University of Nottingham, England and completed fellowships in adult cardiology at Toronto General Hospital and in cardiovascular medicine at Oschner Foundation Clinic in New Orleans. He was responsible for the division of Cardiac MRI and CT at the UT-MB at Galveston, and was at the forefront of teaching this emerging technology from its early days. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed publications in renowned journals, written editorials, had grants for medical research, written book chapters and been a reviewer of several journals.