Abdullah Abu Kar, MD

• June 2021 - Outstanding Volunteer Teaching Faculty: Family Medicine Residency. KU School of Medicine- Wichita.
• March 2012 - Winner of Jordan's first medical tournament: Amman, Jordan.
• 2002 - Prince Mohammad bin Fahad Prize for Scientific Excellence. Awarded for scoring 100% in a full academic year: Dammam, KSA.

• ACLS-certified (Valid through 9/20/2025)
• 2018 - current: American Board of Internal Medicine (10/16/2018).
• 2022- current: Medical Board of California license
• 2018 - 2022: Kansas State Board of Healing Arts.
• 2014 - current: Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG).
• USMLE Step 3: 225 (12/2014).
• USMLE Step 2 CK: 259 (7/2014).
• USMLE Step 2 CS: Passed- first attempt (2/2014).
• USMLE Step 1: 252 (11/2013).

Published

• Barakat M, Kar AA, Pourshahid S, Ainechi S, Lee HJ, Othman M, Tadros M. Gastrointestinal and biliary granular cell tumor: diagnosis and management. Ann Gastroenterol. 2018 Jul-Aug;31(4):439-447. doi: 10.20524/aog.2018.0275. Epub 2018 May 9. PMID: 29991888; PMCID: PMC6033765.
• Abdel Jawad M, Abu Kar A, Fanari Z, Elkharbotly A. Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis Creeping Into the Paravalvular Space. Cureus. 2023;15(2):e35315. Published 2023 Feb 22. doi:10.7759/cureus.35315
• Abdel Jawad M, Abu Kar A, Saad A, Elkharbotly A, Fanari Z. Impella RP Use in Refractory Cardiogenic Shock in a Patient Presenting With Acute Right Coronary Artery Occlusion: A Case Report. Cureus. 2023;15(8):e43072. Published 2023 Aug 7. doi:10.7759/cureus.43072
• Younis M, Abu Kar A, Abdel Jawad M, et al. Diagnostic and therapeutic practices of cardiac sarcoidosis in the United States: a nationwide questionnaire based study. Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis. 2023;40(3):e2023032. Published 2023 Sep 13. doi:10.36141/svdld.v40i3.14218
• Younis, M., Al-Antary, N., Dalbah, R., Qarajeh, A., Khanfar, A. N., Kar, A. A., Reddy, R., & Alzghoul, B. N. (2023). Echocardiography and pulmonary hypertension in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease undergoing lung transplantation evaluation. The American journal of the medical sciences, S0002-9629(23)01405-2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjms.2023.11.006

Abstracts

• Munguti C, Hayat U, Okut H, Akidiva S, Abukar A, Shaheen W. Disparities in the prevalence of Acute Myocardial Infarction among patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a Nationwide Database Analysis. AHA Scientific Session. Nov 2022
• Younis M., Abukar, A., Al-Zamer YS., Alkilany, BM. As-Sayayideh M., Patel, DC. Alzghoul BN. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Practices of Cardiac Sarcoidosis in the United States: A Nationwide Registry Study. American Thoracic Society International Conference. May 2022
• Mikula, M., Patel, H., Abukar, A., Philbin, E., Torosoff, M. Effects of NSAID Use and Race on Heart Failure Readmissions and Hospital Resource Utilization. 2017 New York Chapter ACP Annual Scientific Meeting. October, 2017.

• 8/2021 - Acute coronary syndrome: diagnosis and treatment. Lecture to internal medicine providers.
• 12/2017 - An update on heart failure management and use of sacubitril/valsartan per ACC/AHA/HFSA update.

• 5/15-5/18/2022: American Thoracic Society International Conference. San Francisco, CA.
• 11/4-11/5/2021: Point of Care Ultrasound for the Hospitalist. University of California San Francisco
• 8/7/2021: Point of Care Ultrasound Training Course. University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, KS.

• English (fluent)
• Arabic (fluent)

• I enjoy playing tennis, pickle ball and soccer.
• NFL fan. Go Chiefs!
• I love traveling! Fortunate to have experienced many cultures while living in several countries, and hoping to experience many more through travelling
• Reading- Favorite author is Malcom Gladwell.