The 20 Best Cardiac Ablation Doctors in The United States

Meet Doug Packer, a doctor who knew from a young age he wanted to work in cardiology, and after attending Duke knew he wanted to work in electrophysiology. He loves to share his knowledge with patients, not only to help them live their healthiest lives possible, but to educate them and his colleagues so that knowledge can continue to help them and others. Dr. Packer is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 11 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), Cardiac Ablation, and Angioplasty. Dr. Packer is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine and American Board Of Internal Medicine.

Andrea Natale is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist practicing medicine in Bronx, New York. Dr. Natale is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 32 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, FACC, FHRS, is Section Head of Electrophysiology and Director of Arrhythmia Services at Montefiore as well as Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Di Biase is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 23 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Dr. Usha B. Tedrow is director of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s (BWH) Heart Rhythm Program. A cardiovascular medicine specialist, she is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).Dr. Tedrow received her medical degree from HMS. She completed an internal medicine residency and a cardiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, she completed a cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at BWH. Dr. Tedrow is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology.Her clinical interests include atrial fibrillation, cardiac resynchronization and ventricular tachycardia. She is currently researching left ventricular mapping and pacing data to analyze novel ablation treatments for structural heart disease. In addition, Dr. Tedrow serves on the editorial board of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications and has received research funding from the Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Tedrow is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. She is also highly rated in 25 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Ventricular Tachycardia, Arrhythmias, Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Tedrow is board certified in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Mohamed Kanj is a Cardiologist practicing medicine in Beachwood, Ohio. Dr. Kanj is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 37 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Kanj is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine, 2006.

William Sauer is a Cardiologist practicing medicine in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Dr. Sauer is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 23 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Sauer is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Walid Saliba is a Cardiologist practicing medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been practicing medicine for over 42 years. Dr. Saliba is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 37 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Saliba is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine, 1999.

Dr. Paul Zei is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Director of the BWH Comprehensive Atrial Fibrillation Program, with a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School.Dr. Zei earned his medical degree and a PhD at Stanford University. He then completed Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Cardiology Fellowship, and Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship training at BWH. After briefly serving on the faculty at BWH, he moved to Stanford University, where he spent eleven years as a faculty member in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology. At Stanford, Dr. Zei developed a program in complex ablation, a research program in technology innovation, and he also served as the Director of Outpatient Cardiology and ECG services. Dr. Zei then returned to Boston to re-join the faculty at BWH and Harvard Medical School.Dr. Zei’s clinical interests focus on management of complex arrhythmias, with an emphasis on atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation of complex arrhythmias, and device implantation. In his role as Director of BWH’s Comprehensive Atrial Fibrillation Program, Dr. Zei brings together a multi-disciplinary approach to the management of patients with Atrial Fibrillation and leads several research initiatives to better understand and treat patients with this condition. Dr. Zei’s research interests are in understanding the basic underlying mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias and developing new technologies to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. Dr. Zei is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 18 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Ventricular Tachycardia, Arrhythmias, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Zei is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Dr. Edward P. Gerstenfeld is chief of the UCSF Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Service. His expertise includes treating arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, with catheter ablation. Specific techniques, such as endocardial and epicardial ablation, may be used for atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia or ventricular tachycardia. Gerstenfeld also specializes in treating patients with inherited arrhythmia syndromes such as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Brugada syndrome, long QT syndrome and adult congenital heart disease. Treatments include implantation of pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization devices. In his research, Gerstenfeld studies the mechanisms of arrhythmia, new technologies for mapping and ablation of arrhythmias, biomedical signal processing and electrocardiography. He is the primary investigator for several clinical trials. Gerstenfeld earned a medical degree at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a master of science degree in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. He completed a residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a cardiology fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, a research fellowship at UCSF and an electrophysiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerstenfeld is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the Heart Rhythm Society and American Heart Association. He has published numerous manuscripts and book chapters, and he often lectures on mapping and treating arrhythmias. He is associate editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC): Clinical Electrophysiology. Dr. Gerstenfeld is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 19 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Arrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Gerstenfeld is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. Dr. Gerstenfeld is currently accepting new patients.

I enjoy exercise, cooking, family, traveling, design, golf, tennis, NBA, learning, and making human connections. Dr. Tung is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 20 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Ventricular Tachycardia, Arrhythmias, Heart Block, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Tung is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine/Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and American Board Of Internal Medicine/Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Tung is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Aryana is a classically-trained cardiac electrophysiologist. He received his training at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Aryana joined Regional Cardiology Associates in 2008 and Mercy Medical Group in 2015. He specializes in management of cardiac arrhythmias including both clinical and interventional therapies such as catheter ablation and cardiac rhythm device implantation.I strive to provide high-quality, patient-centric, evidence-based, but individually-tailored care to each and every one of my patients, while treating them as if they are family. Dr. Aryana is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 22 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Aryana is board certified in Internal Medicine (Sub: Clin Cardiac Electrophysiolog. Dr. Aryana is currently accepting new patients.

Stavros Mountantonakis is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Mountantonakis is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 21 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Richard Hongo is a Cardiologist and a Vascular Surgeon practicing medicine in San Francisco, California. Dr. Hongo is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 21 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Hongo is currently accepting new patients.

Srinivas Dukkipati is a Cardiologist practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Dukkipati is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 49 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Thrombectomy.

Kenneth Ellenbogen is a Cardiologist practicing medicine in Richmond,, Virginia. Dr. Ellenbogen is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 45 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Ectopic Heartbeat, Atrial Fibrillation, Sarcoidosis, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Jonathan Piccini is a Cardiologist and a Cardiac Electrophysiologist practicing medicine in Morrisville, North Carolina. He has been practicing medicine for over 24 years. Dr. Piccini is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 23 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Ventricular Fibrillation, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Piccini is board certified in American Board Of Internal Med, Cardiovascular Disease and American Board Of Internal Med, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysio.

Dr. Jeffrey Winterfield is an associate professor of cardiac electrophysiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts and his medical degree with honors from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. After completing his internal medicine residency, he was selected for a highly competitive fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, part of Harvard Medical School, in Boston. Dr. Winterfield's interest includes cardiac arrhythmias; he remained on service at the Brigham and Women's Hospital as a fellow in clinical cardiac electrophysiology where he trained with several leaders in the field. In 2011, he took his first faculty position in the prestigious heart rhythm program at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago where he remained for five years. During that time in Chicago, he published multiple papers and abstracts, participated as a principal investigator in clinical trials regarding complex rhythm management, and served as faculty in national and international meetings. In 2016, he was recruited to MUSC for his expertise in catheter ablation of complex arrhythmias, particularly ventricular tachycardia (VT) and premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). He has special expertise in catheter ablation of arrhythmias on the outside of the heart (epicardial VT). Dr. Winterfield takes care of adult patients with cardiac rhythm disturbances including supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), Wolf-Parkinson-White (WPW), atrial fibrillation (AF), as well as premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) and ventricular tachycardia (VT). He has a particular interest in VT in patients with advanced heart disease including ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies. Dr. Winterfield is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 19 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Ventricular Tachycardia, Arrhythmias, Ectopic Heartbeat, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Winterfield is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. David Douglass Spragg is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology) at Johns Hopkins. In addition, he is the inaugural Edward St. John Professor of Cardiology. His research focuses on treatments for atrial fibrillation (AF), and particularly on catheter ablation for AF. Dr. Spragg received his undergraduate degree in the Comparative Study of Religion from Harvard College. He earned his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. After pursuing a Sarnoff Cardiovascular research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Spragg completed his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He came to Johns Hopkins in 2001 for Cardiology and Cardiac EP fellowships. He served as chief fellow for the Cardiology program, and was recognized for his research during fellowship as the Michel Mirowski Cardiology Fellow. Dr. Spragg joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2006, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. He was promoted to the rank of Professor of Medicine in 2024. Besides his teaching and clinical appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Spragg is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Atrial Fibrillation Research Program. He is a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Spragg is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 13 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Cardiac Tamponade, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Spragg is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine.

Degrees: BS: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1981 Electrical Engineering MS: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1983 Electrical Engineering PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1987 Electrical Engineering MD: Harvard 1987 Medicine Professional Appointments: 1987-1988 Intern in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital 1988-1990 Resident in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital 1988-1990 Research Scientist, Harvard M.I.T. Division of H.S.T. 1990-1993 Fellow in Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University 1993-1998 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 1996- Co-Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital 1998-2005 Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 2002-2005 Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University 2005- Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 2005- Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Berger is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 16 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Berger is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine.

Ayman Hussein is a Cardiologist practicing medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been practicing medicine for over 26 years. Dr. Hussein is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Cardiac Ablation. He is also highly rated in 32 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.