Joseph G. Akar, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Academic Director of Electrophysiology; Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory; Director, Complex Ablation Program
Departments & Organizations
Cardiovascular Medicine: Cardiomyopathy & Inherited Cardiovascular Disease Program | Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE) | Electrophysiology & Cardiac Arrhythmia Program: Complex Ablation Program
Heart & Vascular Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Office of Cooperative Research
Biography
Joseph G Akar, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Section of Cardiology at the Yale University School of Medicine and director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Following his Bachelor's degree in Biology at the Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Akar obtained his MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He subsequently completed internship and residency at the Yale-New Haven Hospital followed by a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center. During his fellowship, Dr. Akar completed a PhD in Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics focusing on the study of electrical and structural remodeling in atrial fibrillation. He subsequently completed a fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology. Dr. Akar was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago. He remained on faculty there for 5 years and then joined Yale as Director of the Complex Ablation Program in Electrophysiology. Dr. Akar's expertise is in clinical electrophysiology, and his research focuses on atrial fibrillation.
Education & Training
| PhD | University of Virginia (2004) |
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| MD | University of Pittsburgh (1995) |
| Fellow | University of Virginia |
| Fellow | University of Virginia |
| Resident | Yale-New Haven Hospital |
| Board Certification | AB of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease (2003, recertified: 2013) |
