Joseph G. Akar, MD, PhD

Specialty

Internal Medicine: Cardiology: Cardiology/Electrophysiology and Cardiac Arrhythmia Service: Clinical Cardiology (Outpatient)

Programs & Centers

Heart & Vascular Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Electrophysiology and Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Clinical Cardiology (Outpatient), Complex Ablation Program, Cardiomyopathy Inherited Cardiovascular Disease

Clinical Interests

Radiofrequency ablation of complex arrhythmias with including persistent and long-standing atrial fibrillation, atrial fibrillation and flutter in the setting of structural heart disease (surgically corrected congenital disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart failure, prosthetic valves), and epicardial ventricular tachycardia; cardiac resynchronization therapy (biventricular devices).

Board Certifications

• Cardiovascular Disease, Board Certified, 2003
• Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Board Certified, 2005

Languages Spoken

• Arabic
• French

Education & Training

• Fellow, University of Virginia, Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2004
• Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2004
• Fellow, University of Virginia, Cardiology, 2002
• Resident, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Internal Medicine, 1998
• M.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1995