APCNA Office

Executive Director

Rizwan A. Karatela, MD, FACC

Since the formation of APCNA, and its exponential growth over this period, it was greatly felt by the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees of APCNA, the need to have continuation and consistency in all its activities year after year. The address of the organization was changing every year to the then elected President’s address. The banking, book keeping and accountings were also working on year to year basis. The newsletter was mailed form a different address every year. When dealing with other organizations like ACC, APPNA and pharmaceutical industry, we were providing new address of APCNA every January 2001. All these were not giving an image of continuation.

Keeping in view the diff culties, the Executive Committee of 2008 in consultation with Chairman, CAB & L Committee and original writer of our constitution, Prof. S. Sultan Ahmed, and the Board of Trustees, approved the idea of nominating
an Executive Director of APCNA. In 2008, President, Dr. Immad Sadiq, proposed Dr. Rizwan Karatela’s name as the first Executive Director of APCNA. It was unanimously approved by the EC. The appointment of Dr. Karatela for five years as ED of APCNA, was finally approved by the General Body in its Annual
Meeting in Chicago in March 2008.

Rizwan A. Karatela, MD FACC

Dr. Karatela is a graduate of Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan 1984, completed his residency at Emory University, Atlanta.He then stayed as Cardiology Research Fellow at the Emory for 3 years and then completed Clinical Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. He is in private practice witn cardiology group in SouthFlorida.