Amir Z. Malik, MD

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Get to know Cardiologist Dr. Amir Z. Malik, who serves patients in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dr. Malik is a highly credentialed and respected cardiologist at Heart Center of North Texas, P.A. He sees patients at the Fort Worth office location and runs a Heart Failure and Hypertension Clinic in addition to his office.

Having been practicing cardiology since 1998, the doctor is skilled in right and left coronary angiography, coronary interventions (including stenting, atherectomy, embolectomy), complex coronary stenting, carotid stenting, peripheral vascular stenting (including renal, mesenteric, subclavian, cleac, iliac, femoropopliteal, and below the knee stenting.), atrial septal defect closures, PFO closures, VSD closures, PDA closures, percutaneous paravalvular leak closures, valvuloplasty procedures, pacemaker placements, AAA stent grafting, transesophageal echocardiogram, peripheral atherectomy (including directional atherectomy, rotational atherectomy, and laser atherectomy), Impella device placement, IABP placement, venous procedures including IVC filters, embolectomy, venous stenting, varicose vein treatments including laser ablation, radio-frequency ablation, sclerotherapy, stab phlebectomies, ranscatheter aortic valve replacement, and the WATCHMAN procedure.

Since joining the Heart Center of North Texas, P.A., Dr. Malik has pioneered many procedures in Tarrant County. He was first to use drug eluting stents, carotid stents, PFO/ASD closure devices, VSD closure devices, peripheral directional atherectomy devices, and intra-vascular Brady therapy. He also performed the initial hybrid coronary revascularization procedure at Medical City Fort Worth. 

Treating patients as young as 11 and as old as 105 in his career, he holds privileges at Medical City Fort Worth, Baylor All Saints Hospital, Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, Medical City Weatherford, Huguley Memorial Medical Center, and Cooks Children Hospital.

In addition to his cardiac practice, Dr. Malik is involved in academics and teaching of cardiology trainees. He is the Fellowship Director of the UNT Health Science Center/Medical City Fort Worth Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program and holds the title of Clinical Assistant Professor at UNT Health Science Center.

A primary investigator of several ongoing clinical trials, his areas of focus include carotid stenting, peripheral vascular interventions, new anticoagulant therapies, and emerging lipid control therapies. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and a Fellow of Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI).

With a broad educational background, Dr. Malik graduated with his medical degree from Rawalpindi Medical University in Pakistan in 1984. He moved to Fort Worth after completing his residency in internal medicine and his fellowship in cardiology and interventional cardiology at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York.

He graduated from Army Medical College with honors in internal medicine, general surgery, ophthalmology, and pathology. He served in the Army Medical Corps prior to moving to New York where he worked as an attending for a year at the VA Medical Center in Northport.

To further his professional development, Dr. Malik earned board certification in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, and endovascular medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit, independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world. 

Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with the disorders of the heart, as well as some parts of the circulatory system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, and electrophysiology. Cardiologists are doctors who diagnose, assess, and treat patients with diseases and defects of the heart and blood vessels (the cardiovascular system).

Among his outstanding contributions and performance, Dr. Malik was published in the March 2018 Cath Lab Digest issue as a Co-Author of Novel Use of Corindus Robotic Heart Catheterization System for Tryton Side Branch Stent Placement. He also co-authored a case report on Endovascular Repair of a Pseudoaneurysm Adjacent to the Ascending Thoracic Aorta Using a 25-mm Amplatzer Multifenestrated Septal Occluder – Cribriform. This was published on the Vascular Disease Management website, the official news source for the international symposium on endovascular therapy. 

His accolades include: an award for setting the record for the fastest “Door-to-Balloon” (time to treat heart attacks) which was 7 minutes; being recognized as a “Healthcare Hero” in 2008 by the Business Press; and being selected as “Top Doc” in Fort Worth Texas Magazine in 2009.

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