He is Board certified in Internal medicine, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Echocardiography, Nuclear cardiology and Endovascular medicine. He has been in academic practice in the United States for over 10 years.
His areas of research and clinical expertise include structural heart disease interventions, complex coronary interventions, mechanical circulatory support, and cardiogenic shock. He has been the PI of multiple randomized trials in these areas. He has been a prolific researcher and published extensively with over 130 peer reviewed papers, several of which are in high impact journals. His work is cited in the ACC/ESC guidelines and the Mayo Cardiovascular Board Review. He has contributed as coauthor to three SCAI consensus documents and is routinely invited as faculty at ACC, SCAI, AHA, TCT, CVI among others. In addition Dr. Hakeem is a celebrated teacher and has won Faculty of the year Teaching Awards in 2014 at UAMS and at Rutgers in 2018.