Masood Akhtar, MD

Masood Akhtar, MD, FACC, MACP, is chief of the cardiovascular disease section and director of arrhythmia services. Dr. Akhtar also is director of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiology fellowship programs at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, representing the largest cardiovascular training program in the state. He also serves as executive medical director of the Cardiovascular System Clinical Program.

Dr. Akhtar is considered one of the world's preeminent electrophysiologists. In 1977, he came to what is now Aurora Sinai to develop the electrophysiology program. The program today has more full-time electrophysiologists than any other program in the U.S., and enjoys a national reputation for innovation, quality and service. Dr. Akhtar also developed the electrophysiology laboratory at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center.

Dr. Akhtar has trained more than 50 fellows as electrophysiologists, who now are in practices and teaching institutions across the U.S., as well as in South America, the Far and Middle East, and Europe. (06/10)