Dr. Zakir is native from New Jersey and attended Rutgers college and completed his internship and residencey at UMDNJ- New Jersey Medical School. He won the Department of Medicine Research award and several other recognitions for his commitment to advance the field of medicine. He spent an additional year as chief medical resident in the UMDNJ program at Hackensack University Hospital where he taught and had various administrative duties. He completed his cardiology fellowship at UMDNJ- New Jersey Medical School and was chief fellow the final year. He completed an interventional fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center and did advance training in carotid stenting at Lenox Hill Hospital. He is well published and presented at numerous international conferences.

Dr. Zakir is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Medical School, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital where he is involved in research and fellow training. He is the Director of Transradial Catheterization where he has successful performed over a thousand procedures and teaches other cardiologists on how to safely perform the procedure through the radial artery. His area of expertise is complex coronary interventions, chronic total occlusion, carotid artery stenting and endovascular interventions for patients with symptomatic peripheral arterial disease. (PAD)

Dr. Zakir is also the Director of the Peripheral Vascular Institute at Saint Peter’s University Hospital. He is the principal investigator of several clinical trials to enhance the management of patients with PAD. He is invited faculty at several international conferences and lectures throughout the country.

Dr. Zakir enjoys playing basketball ,tennis and football. He also enjoys rooting for the Knicks, Yankees and Jets.

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, Endovascular