Mohamed Jeilan MBBS, DM, MRCP, CCT

Dr. Mohamed Jeilan is the Section Head of Cardiology and the Director of Cardiac Services at the Aga Khan University. He completed his medical school training at Southampton General Hospital in 1997 and his cardiology fellowship at Northampton General Hospital in 2003. 

Dr. Jeilan, a faculty member since 2012, is a consultant interventional cardiologist and a complex devices specialist. Before arriving in Kenya, he was a consultant cardiologist at Northampton General Hospital and honorary consultant cardiologist at the University Hospitals of Leicestershire NHS Trust UK after serving as an interventional cardiologist/clinical researcher at the University of Leicester. 

Dr. Jeilan has been key in introducing novel life-saving invasive procedures at the hospital including the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement, the first renal denervation, the first intravascular ultrasound, and the first biodegradable scaffold implant in sub-Saharan Africa. 

His expertise lies in cardiac rhythm management, percutaneous coronary intervention, and transcatheter aortic valve procedures. He is the recipient of the Oxford University School of Medicine Clinical Teaching Award.