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Trends in Atrial Fibrillation Management | August 19th, 2024

Date of Presentation: August 19, 2024

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Cardiology  

Keywords: #anticoagulant  #atrial fibrillation  #cardiac  #heart  

In this presentation, Dr. Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, discusses advances in medical and interventional treatments for prevention of AF- related stroke, he also covers advances in medical and interventional treatments for minimizing the burden of AF and lastly how advances informed the current guidelines for AF management.

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Dr. Leon Ptaszek
Dr. Leon Ptaszek
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Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is an Associate Physician on the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Leon received his degrees from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine at NYU in 2003. He completed a residency program in Internal Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2005 and then completed clinical and research fellowships in Cardiovascular Diseases and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011. In addition, he holds two patents and is the author of over 60 original scientific publications, reviews, and book chapters and is also involved in international health outreach efforts including establishing a virtual cardiology lecture series at the King Faisal Hospital in Rwanda and at the Uganda Heart Institute.

Leon received the Franklin G. Ebaugh, Jr. Award for research and the Award for Professionalism from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2005. He received the Clinician-Scientist Award from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and was named the de Gunzburg Scholar at MGH in 2011. Leon became a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 2013 and became a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society in 2018. He also received a Pioneer Award for management of SVT from the Arrhythmia Alliance in 2021.

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Date added: August 19, 2024