About Dr. Anita Asgar,
Interventional Cardiologist

Hello! My name is Dr. Anita Asgar and I am an interventional cardiologist having graduated from Memorial University in 1999. To date, I have performed approximately 9,000 cardiac operations, of which more than 2,400 involved heart valve procedures. I regularly perform cardiac procedures at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Read more...

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My Specialities &
Clinical Interests

My specialties include:

• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
• Transcatheter mitral valve repair
• Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair and replacement

In addition, I have research and clinical interests specific to:

• Mitral regurgitation
• Tricuspid regurgitation
• Innovative technology for valve disease

Education, Training & Certificates

Dr. Anita Asgar, interventional cardiologist, graduated from Memorial University in 1999.

After medical school, Dr. Asgar completed an internal medicine residency at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada (2002). Next, she completed a cardiology residency at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, in 2005. Dr. Asgar completed an interventional cardiology residency at Montreal Heart Institute in 2007 and a structural intervention / cardiac MRI residency at Royal Brompton Hospital in London in 2009.

Dr. Asgar is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Dr. Asgar has a Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences, is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention.

In 2025, Dr. Asgar was named the section chief of interventional cardiology at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.