Posts by E. Kevin Heist, MD, PhD
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Incidence of Ventricular Arrhythmia in ICD Recipients Varies by Season, Time of Day
In the largest cohort of ICD recipients ever studied, ventricular arrhythmias were more likely during the spring than during the summer and more likely between 8 AM and 10 PM than between 10 PM and 8 AM.
Biography
Dr. Kevin Heist received his MD and PhD degrees from Stanford University School of Medicine, and received an MMSc degree from the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences Training Program. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at UC San Francisco, and he then completed Fellowships in both Cardiolovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology at MGH. He is the Program Director for the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at MGH.
His clinical and research interests focus on catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation (AF), supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) and ventricular tachycardia (VT), as well as implantation and followup of cardiac device therapy including pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resyncrhonization therapy (CRT) devices. He has published over 150 peer reviewed papers on these topics, and is frequently invited to give educational lectures on these subjects at major national and international meetings.
His practice is currently accepting new patients.
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