Dr. Atul Verma MD
Speaker
Staff cardiac Electrophysiologist and Director of Arrhythmia Services at Southlake Regional Health Care Centre and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and McGill University.
Southlake Regional Health Care Centre- Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.
Topic: Fundamentals of catheter ablation – PVI, CFAE, Empiric lines, Triggers, Substrate modification. From prescriptive to personalized ablation strategy.
Overview:
Dr. Atul Verma is a staff cardiac electrophysiologist and Director of Arrhythmia Services at Southlake Regional Health Care Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.
He is an Associate Professor with the University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor with McGill University. Specific interests include ablation of atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia especially new techniques and technologies
Dr. Verma has served as Chair or writing member of a number of national and international guideline committees including the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines Committee and the HRS Consensus Statement on Catheter Ablation of AF. He has also led many clinical trials in cardiac ablation.
Dr. Verma completed his medical school and cardiology residency at the University of Toronto and then specialized in cardiac electrophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in many journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, Circulation, JACC, European Heart Journal, and others.