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Cardiology Fellowship ProgramFaculty listFull-time facultyMany of our full-time faculty – past and present – are graduates of our Cardiology Fellowship Program, Electrophysiology Training Program, and/or Interventional Fellowship Program, and many of them are known nationally and internationally for their Full-time Clinical Faculty.
Part-time faculty
You can find a majority of key faculty members' up-to-date biographies online. * These faculty members are not featured online Director BiosFaculty Many of these physicians have served in a teaching capacity for years and our commitment to the fellowship programs continues. Program Director - Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Programs Masood Akhtar, MD, FACC, FACP Ranked among the world's preeminent electrophysiologists, Dr. Masood Akhtar was honored with the Pioneer in Electrophysiology Award (1999) by the Board of Trustees of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. He was named Cardiovascular Researcher of the Year (1984) by the American Heart Association (AHA) - Wisconsin affiliate and was the affiliate President from 1996 to 1998. Dr. Akhtar is Director of Arrhythmia Services at the Milwaukee Heart Institute, Director of the Institute for Cardiac Rhythms at St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee, and Chief of Cardiology at Aurora Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Akhtar is Director of research of the Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowships. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Electrophysiology. Dr. Akhtar trained 6 finalists (2 first place, 3 second) for the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE), (currently known as Heart Rhythm Society, HRS) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) Young Investigator Awards. His teaching awards include the Hypocrites Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease Teaching (1995) from the University of Florida-Miami School of Medicine and the Sir William Osler Award for excellence in cardiovascular teaching. Dr. Akhtar is a prolific publisher of research, including a chapter called “Sudden Cardiac Death” for Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (edited by E Topol) and one entitled “Technique of Electro-physiology Testing” for Hurst's The Heart, 12th edition, (edited by McGraw). In all, Dr. Akhtar has produced 192 original manuscripts, 130 reviews and chapters, and 298 published abstracts. A fellow of the ACC and a member of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the AHA, Dr. Akhtar serves as a scientific abstract grader for the ACC, AHA, NASPE, American Federation for Clinical Research, and Central Society for Clinical Research. He has served on committees of many professional organizations and been on the editorial board or been a peer reviewer for such major cardiology journals as Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the New England Journal of Medicine and others. Dr. Akhtar earned his medical degree at King Edward Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, then completed his internal medicine residency in Buffalo, New York, and at St. Vincent's Medical Center, Staten Island. He completed cardiology and electrophysiology fellowships at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital and was a Research Associate and an Assistant Chief and before building a world-prominent program in Milwaukee. Dr. Akhtar is Head of the Cardiovascular Disease Section and the Electrophysiology Section of the Department of Medicine. He has trained more than 45 fellows as electrophysiologists, now in practices and teaching institutions across the U.S. , in South America, the Far and Middle East, and Europe. He served on the Test Committee for the American Board of Internal Medicine to draft the certifying examination for competence in clinical electrophysiology (1990-1996) and has been listed in "The Best Doctors in America" since 1992. Dr. Akhtar assumed the Directorship for both Cardiology and Electrophysiology Fellowship Programs in 2001. Program Director - Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program Tanvir Bajwa, MD, FACC, FSCAI Associate Head of the Cardiovascular Disease Section, Dr. Bajwa is principal author of “Peripheral Vascular Disease,” a two-part monograph for Current Problems in Cardiology, published in 1998 by Mosby-Year Book, Inc. Termed by reviewers a “comprehensive discussion of modern management” and “scholarly and extensive review of the literature regarding interventional therapy,” the monograph helps physicians identify and successfully manage a growing problem that threatens life and limb, especially in the elderly and in patients with diabetes. Dr. Bajwa has co-authored a chapter called “Advances in The Minimally Invasive Treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease” in Hurst's The Heart, 12th Edition and in the Hurst's the Heart, 11th Edition pocket manual for practicing physicians. Dr. Bajwa is distinguished by technical expertise in advanced interventional cardiac and peripheral vascular procedures, including such frontier treatment areas as stenting renal arteries and below-the-knee percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. He serves on the Medical Advisory Board of Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., to develop instrumentation for these methods. Since 1987, he has participated in, or designed, 10 scientific research protocols. Dr. Bajwa developed a protocol for treating severe peripheral vascular disease in patients in need of limb salvage or amputation. The protocol will be based on a body of research unique to our center in which a mixture of autologous biological glue plus endothelial cells is the vehicle for delivery of angiogenesis-enhancing agents to the demarcation line between healthy and ischemic tissue to retard, and perhaps reverse, tissue degeneration and eventual necrosis. Known statewide for his annual symposium, “New Developments in Cardiology and the Primary Care Physician,” Dr. Bajwa has published many articles and abstracts. He has presented at many national meetings such as the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Federation of Clinical Research, the International Congress of Lasers, Stents, and Intervention in Cardiovascular Disease and other professional organizations. A Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, Dr. Bajwa also belongs to the American Heart Association and the American Medical Association. Dr. Bajwa trained as a fellow in cardiology and in coronary angioplasty at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, the Milwaukee clinical campus of the University of Wisconsin Medical School (1985-1988). In 1989, he was promoted to Director of the Peripheral Vascular Disease Laboratory and, in 1990, to Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. In 2002, he was promoted to Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship program at Aurora Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Bajwa earned his medical degree at King Edward Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, and completed his internship and residency at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, New York. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology. Associate Program Director - Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program Suhail Allaqaband, MD, FACC Dr. Suhail Q. Allaqaband joined our group in July of 2003 after completing a one-year Interventional Cardiology Fellowship and a three-year Cardiology Fellowship in June 2002, both at University of Wisconsin Medical School-Milwaukee Clinical Campus at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He earned his medical degree at the University of Kashmir in Kashmir, India. Dr. Allaqaband has co-authored a chapter on minimally invasive treatment of peripheral vascular disease for Hurst's The Heart, 11th Edition, and a two-part monograph on peripheral vascular disease, published in 1998 in Current Problems in Cardiology by Mosby-Yearbook, Inc. He has also published numerous original research articles and abstracts involving endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms, renal artery stenosis and peripheral vascular disease. He is extremely active in cardiovascular research with a major focus on therapies for aneurysmal, aortoiliac andfemropopliteal disease. He has presented poster and abstract presentations at both local and national symposia. Dr. Allaqaband's research efforts has earned him the position of Director of clinical research for the Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology Fellowship programs. Dr. Allaqaband was awarded first prize for the best poster presentation in the clinical investigation category at the Cardiology Perspectives - 2002 Annual meeting of the Illinois and Wisconsin Chapters of the American College of Cardiology, November, 2002. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology. Associate Program Director - Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program Anjan Gupta, MD Dr. Gupta earned his medical degree in India at the University of Calcutta Medical College. After residency training there, Dr. Gupta completed an internal medicine residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation before coming to Milwaukee. In Milwaukee, he completed 3 years of a basic cardiovascular diseases fellowship as well as a year of interventional cardiology training. With Dr. Tanvir Bajwa, Dr. Gupta is one of the co-authors of two reviews on the subject of peripheral vascular disease, one for Current Problems in Cardiology, published in two parts by Mosby, Inc., in 2006, and another soon to be published in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Gupta is the author or co-author of 12 articles in professional literature and has presented 14 abstracts, including 6 at national professional symposia. In 2000, at the 49th Annual Scientific Conference of the American College of Cardiology, he presented “High homocysteine concentration is a risk factor for restenosis and adverse cardiovascular events after percutaneous coronary interventions.” His awards and honors include Outstanding Research Presentation by a Resident Physician, awarded by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1996, and a Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowship Award in Cardiology, awarded by the American College of Cardiology in 2000. In 2007, Dr. Gupta has co-authored a chapter on The Minimally Invasive Treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease for Hurst's The Heart, 12th Edition. Dr. Gupta is a member of the American College of Physicians and an associate member of the American College of Cardiology. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Interventional Cardiology, and Echocardiography. Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program, Dr. Gupta joined our group after completing fellowship in 2000 at Aurora Sinai Medical Center. In 2006, he was promoted to Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center. Associate Program Director - Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program Jasbir Sra, MD, FACC Dr. Jasbir Sra's work has been seminal in expanding the scope of electrophysiological treatment. His report on the feasibility of detecting atrial fibrillation and terminating it using low-energy transvenous shocks placed him in the forefront of those developing this new therapy. His laboratory recently developed a model for atrial fibrillation ablation using radiofrequency current. Dr. Sra is Director of the Clinical Electrophysiology Basic Research Laboratory and Electrophysiology Laboratory at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin Medical School's clinical campus in Milwaukee. He has the distinction of being the first U.S. researcher to implant an atrial defibrillator (1996) and is the author of a groundbreaking study on the cause of syncope, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. He has been involved in nearly 30 clinical research protocols. Over the past 3 years, Dr. Sra has been listed as one of the “Best Doctors in America.” Dr. Sra is a reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Pacing and Electrophysiology, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Electrophysiology, and the Indian Heart Journal. Author of over 100 abstracts, Dr. Sra is an abstract grader for the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE) and the American Heart Association. Both the New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine have commended Dr. Sra on the quality of his reviews and for his contributions to science through this service. He has published more than 60 original manuscripts and 50 reviews or book chapters, including two comprehensive reviews for Current Problems in Cardiology published by Mosby Inc.: “Sudden Cardiac Death” (1999) and “Atrial Fibrillation: Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Management” (2000). Since 1992, Dr. Sra has chaired sessions and served on “meet the experts” and “fireside” panels at annual meetings of the American Heart Association (AHA) and NASPE. He has presented and published over 100 abstracts at national meetings of the AHA, the American College of Cardiology, and NASPE. He has chaired oral abstract sessions on many aspects of electrophysiology for all three of these leading professional organizations. Born in India, Dr. Sra earned his medical degree at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College in Jamshedpur, served his internship at Tata Main Hospital there, then received residency training in England and in Rochester, New York. He completed basic cardiology training at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin Medical School, and stayed for an electrophysiology fellowship, joining the faculty in 1990. In 1995, Dr. Sra was invited to the All India Institute of Medical Science and Escorts Health Institute and Research Center in New Delhi, India's most prestigious medical centers, where he implanted the first multi-programmable defibrillator for ventricular arrhythmia in the Indian subcontinent. There, Dr. Sra also helped establish the first Indian catheter ablation program. 1n 1999, he was selected as a grant reviewer for the Canadian Medical Research Council to evaluate their protocol for funding studies for the treatment of syncope. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology and the American Heart Association. Dr. Sra is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. Cardiology Fellowship Program links
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