Dr. Abdulwahab Arrazaghi, was born in Gharian, a mountain city in Libya, he started school in the capital city Tripoli, Libya. He completed his elementary school in Saudi Arabia and Spain where he travelled with his diplomatic family. He completed high school at Hay Al Andalus and joined the University of Tripoli Faculty of Medicine in 1984. He completed medical school in 1993 and travelled to Toronto to pursue his higher medical education at the University of Toronto, where he joined in the postgraduate program for internal medicine followed by adult cardiology program and Echocardiography fellowship.

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He showed outstanding performance throughout his training years and was actively involved in teaching junior and senior medical residents at the University of Toronto internal medicine and cardiology program. He lectured on a regular basis on many topics in the internal medicine and cardiology grand rounds. Over all his presentations are known to be up to date, exciting and well organized. He was the only trainee ever to publish two medical books during his training years and was awarded for that by the Department for Cardiology at Toronto general hospital. He made the first 200 copies of his books free and delivered and distributed to the major hospitals in his homeland, Libya. Several copies were distributed to the major hospitals in Toronto, including Toronto general hospital, St. Michael’s hospital and Sunnybrook Hospital.

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Amongst his many other successors Dr. Arrazaghi has earned the title of one of the best leading physicians in the world alongside his recent nomination for the year 2020-2021 as one of three top rated cardiologists in Toronto. He is the creator and chief editor of The Canadian Medical magazine, a public magazine curated to empower the general public with medical knowledge and realistic views on hot medical topics.

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He initiated free teaching courses for the Canadian international medical physicians, where he provided review medical lectures, introductory courses to the North American health system and practical hands-on supervised patient interactions. He is a registered University of Toronto medical examiner for graduate and postgraduate medical programs. Furthermore, he is a certified director for the Advanced Life Cardiac Support program with the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada. Dr. Arrazaghi is known as an excellent medical lecturer and is involved in CME lectures to the medical community in Ontario, Canada.

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He is currently the executive director of Toronto Heart and Women’s Health Center located in Scarborough, Ontario. He is also the director and CEO of Richmond Hill Cardiac center, carrying more than 200,000 patients seen and managed by him.

He is a patient advocate both nationally and internationally by helping patients to achieve the best of health. He facilitated the transfer of patients from different third world countries to receive treatments in both Canada and Europe.

 

Dr. Arrazaghi is known to help the poor communities in Sudan, Palestine and Libya by sending medical equipment and medical supplies on a regular basis. He is known to be a civil rights advocate and an active member in Immensity International and Animal Rights group, and a member of the Canadian Race Relation Foundation, and active member of Islamic Relief Canada. At a personal level, Dr. Arrazaghi is a loving father, son and husband. He has a never ending love of sports including; boxing, swimming, soccer and basketball. He has travelled to over 21 countries to explore nature and nations around the world and has a loving passion for connecting with his community.

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Dr. Arrazaghi lives by the notion “heart to heart” offering care where it matters and devoting his life to helping others. He has offered not only medical care but an emotional connection with all his patients. Dr. Arrazaghi is pillar in his community, being that he came to Canada as an immigrant and has since created a successful foundation, his story inspires many like him to follow the path of passion.