San Antonio / Texas / United States
Jamil A. Malik, MD, FACC, FSCAI, COL, USA, Ret is Board Certified in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology. He practices with South Texas Cardiovascular Consultants Dr. Malik is a retired United States Army Colonel (Medical Corps). After a long and successful military career serving in senior academic and administrative positions-including, most recently, Chief of Cardiology at San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC), Dr. Malik now focuses full time on patient care. Dr. Malik decided to pursue a career in cardiology after his father underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery when Dr. Malik was only 12 years old. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and completed a categorical residency at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Maliks cardiology fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas inspired him to consider interventional cardiology. He later completed an Army-sponsored sub-fellowship at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His highly-decorated military medical career involved travel throughout the United States and overseas where he gained invaluable experience managing patients in different communities and circumstances. Notably, Dr. Malik served in support of Operation Fuerte Apoyo following Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua in late 1998 when he was based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. During his service at William Beaumont Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, he was deployed to the Intensive Care Unit in Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2006. In 2007, he was stationed at Brooke Army Medical Center as Assistant Chief of Cardiology and was deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2010. Dr. Maliks clinical interests include complex PCI, chronic total revascularization and the treatment of refractory angina. Dr. Malik performs transradial cardiac catheterizations (accessing the heart through the wrist instead of the groin) and transcatheter procedures for the treatment of structural heart disease. Dr. Malik is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. Dr. Malik speaks English and Japanese and sees patients in San Antonio and Boerne, as well as at Methodist Hospital | Texsan.
