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Office
1504 Taub Loop
Houston, TX 77030Phone+1 713-873-8890Fax+1 713-798-1144
Education & Training
- Baylor College of Medicine/St Luke's Episcopal HospitalFellowship, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2006 - 2007
- Ochsner Clinic FoundationFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2003 - 2006
- Ochsner Clinic FoundationResidency, Internal Medicine, 2001 - 2003
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences School of MedicineClass of 1988
Certifications & Licensure
- TX State Medical License 2007 - 2026
- LA State Medical License 2002 - 2011
- American Board of Internal Medicine Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2011-2013
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 92 citationsSubcutaneous Versus Transvenous Implantable Defibrillator Therapy: A Meta-Analysis of Case-Control Studies.Indranill Basu-Ray, Jing Liu, Xiaoming Jia, Michael R. Gold, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen
JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology. 2017-12-26 - 179 citationsEffect of Catheter Ablation with Vein of Marshall Ethanol Infusion vs Catheter Ablation Alone on Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: The VENUS Randomized Clinical TrialMiguel Valderrábano, Leif E. Peterson, Vijay Swarup, Paul A. Schurmann, Akash Makkar
JAMA. 2020-10-27 - 94 citationsInitial experience with a novel percutaneous left atrial appendage exclusion device in patients with atrial fibrillation, increased stroke risk, and contraindications ...Ali Massumi, Mihail G. Chelu, Alireza Nazeri, Stephen Allen May, Hamid Afshar-Kharaghan
The American Journal of Cardiology. 2013-03-15
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