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About Dr Saurabh Kumar
BSc(Med)/MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FCSANZ
Profile: A/Professor Saurabh Kumar is a Cardiologist, Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Staff Specialist and Program Director for Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death at Westmead Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney.Special interests: Catheter ablation of all forms of atrial arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation, flutter, atrial tachycardia), ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular extra-systoles, sustained ventricular tachycardia), and supraventricular tachycardias (accessory pathways, atrio-ventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardias)Cardiac device implantation and follow up including pacemakers, defibrillators, cardiac resynchronisation therapy devices and the newly available, totally external subcutaneous defibrillatorManagement of familial cardiomyopathies such as idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy as well as inherited arrhythmia syndromes such as Long QT and Brugada syndromesAcademic AchievementsDean’s Award for Outstanding Thesis of 2013 (University of Melbourne)Ralph Reader Prize from the Cardiac Society of ANZ in 2012American College of Cardiology Young Author Award 2018A/Prof. Kumar has more than 120 publications (>1800 citations) pertaining to cardiac arrhythmias in prominent international peer-reviewed cardiology journals such as Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, The Lancet and European Heart Journal in addition to the top Cardiac Electrophysiology Textbook, "Zipes: from Cell to Bedside"Faculty speaker at the Annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society.Guest editor for Heart, Lung & Circulation Journal, the official journal of the Cardiac Society of ANZA/Prof. Kumar’s research has been consistently supported by funding National Health and Medical Research Council, The National Heart Foundation of Australia, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and the American Heart Association. A/Prof. Kumar leads a successful research group focusing on investigating why cardiac arrhythmias occur and investigating novel treatment methods with ablation that lead to cure and is currently supervising 2 PhD students.Public Appointment: Westmead Hospital
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- Practice name Westmead Private Hospital
- Address Level 2, Department of Cardiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW
- Suburb or City Westmead, NSW
- State New South Wales
- Country Australia
- What is the Dr Saurabh Kumar's specialty?
- Dr Saurabh Kumar is a Cardiologist.
- What is the address of the Dr Saurabh Kumar's practice?
- Dr Saurabh Kumar works at Level 2, Department of Cardiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW
- What are the Dr Saurabh Kumar's qualifications?
BSc(Med)/MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FCSANZ
Profile: A/Professor Saurabh Kumar is a Cardiologist, Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Staff Specialist and Program Director for Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death at Westmead Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney.Special interests: Catheter ablation of all forms of atrial arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation, flutter, atrial tachycardia), ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular extra-systoles, sustained ventricular tachycardia), and supraventricular tachycardias (accessory pathways, atrio-ventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardias)Cardiac device implantation and follow up including pacemakers, defibrillators, cardiac resynchronisation therapy devices and the newly available, totally external subcutaneous defibrillatorManagement of familial cardiomyopathies such as idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy as well as inherited arrhythmia syndromes such as Long QT and Brugada syndromesAcademic AchievementsDean’s Award for Outstanding Thesis of 2013 (University of Melbourne)Ralph Reader Prize from the Cardiac Society of ANZ in 2012American College of Cardiology Young Author Award 2018A/Prof. Kumar has more than 120 publications (>1800 citations) pertaining to cardiac arrhythmias in prominent international peer-reviewed cardiology journals such as Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, The Lancet and European Heart Journal in addition to the top Cardiac Electrophysiology Textbook, "Zipes: from Cell to Bedside"Faculty speaker at the Annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society.Guest editor for Heart, Lung & Circulation Journal, the official journal of the Cardiac Society of ANZA/Prof. Kumar’s research has been consistently supported by funding National Health and Medical Research Council, The National Heart Foundation of Australia, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and the American Heart Association. A/Prof. Kumar leads a successful research group focusing on investigating why cardiac arrhythmias occur and investigating novel treatment methods with ablation that lead to cure and is currently supervising 2 PhD students.Public Appointment: Westmead Hospital
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