Associate Professor and Chief, Cardiac Electrophysiciology and Arrhythmia Service
UCSF Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
350 Parnassus Avenue, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 476-8237
Fax: (415) 476-6260
Dr. Edward P. Gerstenfeld has recently been appointed associate
professor of medicine and chief of the Cardiac Electrophysiology
and Arrhythmia Service at UCSF Medical Center.
Dr. Gerstenfeld specializes in the treatment of atrial fibrillation,
atrial flutter and post-ablation atrial tachycardias; supraventricular
tachycardias (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, atrioventricular
nodal reentry tachycardia, and AT); ventricular tachycardia, including
endocardial and epicardial mapping and ablation; arrhythmias
in patients with adult congenital heart disease; and inherited
arrhythmia syndromes, including arrhythmogenic right ventricular
cardiomyopathy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Dr. Gerstenfeld received his undergraduate degree from Duke
University and his medical degree from Northwestern University.
He completed a residency at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston and a
fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has
been an attending electrophysiologist at Penn for the past 10
years, specializing in the mapping and ablation of complex arrhythmias.
He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts,
review papers and book chapters on the treatment of cardiac
arrhythmias. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the
American College of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm and the Journal
of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is also a member
of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Board Writing Committee.
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