Additional Titles

• Staff Physician, St. Louis VA Health Care System

Education

• B.S. Biology: Cum Laude Duke University, Durham, NC (1997)
• Masters in Public Health: UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC (2000)
• M.D.: Duke University School of Medicine. MD, Durham, NC (2001)
• Residency, Medicine: Duke University, Durham, NC (2004)
• Fellowship, Cardiology: Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD (2007)
• Fellowship, Electrophysiology: Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD (2009)

Board Certifications

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Electrophysiology

Recognition

1992

National Merit Scholar Semi Finalist

1993

Xerox Award for Humanities Buffalo, NY

1993

US News and World Report- High School Scholar: Honorable Mention

1997

Golden Key National Honors Society Duke University

1993-1997

Multiple Nominations to Deans List Duke University

2004

Publication Listed by Editors as “Greatest Impact in 2004”: JACC

2004

Assistant Chief Resident, Duke University Medical Center

2004

Resident Research Award, Duke University Medical Center

2007

White House Fellowship Regional Finalist

2013

Top 10% Patient Satisfaction Score Nationally

Clinical Interests

Clinical Cardiology with specific interest  in clinical electrophysiology.  Specializing in management and ablation of atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular tachycardia.  Device therapy including pacemakers, defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy, and ICD placement. Management of inherited arrhythmias.

Research Interests

Predictors of sudden cardiac death, Inherited arrhythmias,  Outcomes research.  Clinical trials of novel technologies for management of heart rhythm disorders.