Mahfouz El Shahawy MD, MS, FACP, FACCP, FESC, FSCCT, FASH, FASPC, FAHA, FACC

Dr. El Shahawy is a civic-minded physician and family man with an exceptional academic and administrative background. He has proven to be an uncompromising campaigner for medical excellence in Sarasota County for over 40 years and serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida and the University of South Florida. Dr. El Shahawy is a current Board of Trustees member for both the American Society of Preventive Cardiology (ASPC) and the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC). Dr. El Shaway also served as the medical director of the Cardiovascular Disease prevention program at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and currently serves as Medical Director for the Cardiovascular Health Assessment Center at the Cardiovascular Center of Sarasota. In 1971, Dr. Shahawy moved to the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta, where he served for another 2 years as Senior Fellow and Instructor in Cardiology at Talmadge Teaching Hospital. In 1973, Dr. Shahawy was invited to join the faculty of the Shands Teaching Hospital at the Professorial Level as a full-time Senior Faculty Member and Consulting Cardiologist where he spent 3 years teaching medical students and young doctors including medical interns, residents, and fellows to take care of medical and cardiac problems.

In December 1975, Dr. Shahawy moved to Sarasota and has been in private practice since and holds a Clinical appointment as a full Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida and the University of South Florida. Dr. Shahawy is currently affiliated with Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Doctors Hospital, and Lakewood Ranch Hospital.