Dr. Alaa Younes, MD

Dr. Alaa Younes is a cardiovascular disease specialist who has dedicated 38 years to caring for patients with heart conditions. He earned his medical degree from the University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at Wayne State University. Dr. Younes further advanced his expertise through a cardiovascular diseases fellowship at Tulane University School of Medicine and specialized training in interventional cardiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He maintains board certification in internal medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine and speaks English with his patients.

Dr. Younes practices at the CHRISTUS Heart & Vascular Institute in Alexandria, Louisiana, and holds hospital privileges at Christus Saint Frances Cabrini Hospital. His clinical expertise focuses on treating coronary artery disease and addressing heart conditions that specifically affect women. He also specializes in managing myocardial …ischemia, which occurs when the heart muscle doesn't receive adequate blood flow. Patients benefit from his skills in performing contrast echocardiography to evaluate heart function, transthoracic echocardiograms for detailed heart imaging, and exercise stress tests to assess cardiac performance. His patients have rated him 5.0 out of 5 stars on average.