As the newest member of the cardiac electrophysiology team, Daniel Friedman, MD, studies heart rhythm disorders and will perform a variety of procedures including complex ablation and device implantation.
Born in Syracuse, NY, Friedman graduated with academic distinction from Weill Cornell Medical College where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He completed his internal medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by general cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at Duke University where he was awarded the Joseph C. Greenfield, Jr., M.D. Scholar in Cardiology award. Eric J. Velazquez, MD, the section chief for Cardiovascular Medicine and the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Cardiology, was a prior recipient of the award.
His clinical interests include complex ablation, supraventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, cardiac resynchronization therapy, His bundle pacing, and left atrial appendage occlusion.
At Yale Cardiovascular Medicine, Friedman looks forward to building a busy clinical practice and continuing his clinical research on atrial fibrillation, pacing in heart failure, ablation technology, and left atrial appendage occlusion.
As a fellow, Friedman explored the complex interaction between the electromechanical substrate of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and cardiac resynchronization therapy pacing to better understand optimal patient selection, device implantation, and device programming. Currently, this line of investigation is focusing on understating the possible benefits of CRT pacing in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and the novel use of device measured intracardiac signals to assess the quality of resynchronization. He also devoted a significant amount of time to better understanding optimal management of the left atrial appendage in patients with atrial fibrillation.
Aside from his work, Friedman enjoys cooking, grilling, running, and spending time with his family.