Electrophysiology Fellowship faculty
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M. Eyman Mortada, MD, FACC, FHRS
Program Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine
Born in Syria, Dr. Mortada earned his medical degree at Damascus University Medical School. All his training, including Internal Medicine Residency (as Chief Resident), Clinical Cardiovascular Fellowship and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship, was completed at Aurora Sinai Medical Center.
He joined the Electrophysiology faculty in 2007. Within a year of joining, he became Associate Director of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship. Since 2014, he has been the director of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship. He is American Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.
Dr. Mortada has participated in writing and publishing 16 manuscripts, reviews and chapters. His research work has produced more than 40 published abstracts. Dr. Mortada has also received numerous awards, among them the Physician's Recognition Award given by the American Medical Society, and the Rieselbach Scientific Day Distinguished Paper Award at Aurora Health Care's Scientific Day.
Jodi Zilinski, MD
Associate Program Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
Dr. Zilinski provides state-of-the-art diagnosis and management of heart rhythm disorders, including access to cutting edge technology and procedures while treating the whole patient. Her clinical interests include sports cardiology (specifically arrhythmias), sudden cardiac death in athletes and women's heart health.
Dr. Zilinski earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School. She completed her internal medicine residency and fellowships in cardiovascular diseases and cardiac electrophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Zilinski is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Arshad Jahangir, MD, FHRS, FAHA, FACC
Associate Program Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
Dr. Jahangir is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist who serves as the Medical Director for the Center for Advanced Atrial Fibrillation Therapies and the Associate Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program at Advocate Aurora Health. He specializes in cardiovascular disease with emphasis on defining molecular mechanisms and clinical management of complex cardiac rhythm disorders, cardiac channelopathies, sudden cardiac death and supraventricular and ventricular dysrhythmias. Dr. Jahangir graduated from the Dow Medical College, University of Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowships in Cardiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology and Clinical Pharmacology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Following completion of his training he served as a faculty and was Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic. He is currently adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Consultant Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Advocate Aurora Health in Wisconsin.
As a clinician-investigator, Dr. Jahangir brings an extensive expertise in academic cardiology encompassing care of patients with cardiac rhythm disorders, clinical and translational cardiac research and education. His research has been supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Aging, American Heart Association, Society of Geriatric Cardiology, Institutional grants previously at Mayo Clinic and Aurora Health Care. He has served in a leadership role for several national and international clinical and scientific societies and served on several Scientific Review Committees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including as a regular member of the Myocardial Ischemia and Metabolism Study Section at the NHLBI and working member for several Special Emphasis Panel at the NIH. He has served as the vice chair and chair of the Geriatric Section of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
Dr. Jahangir has published extensively in the field of cardiovascular disease and aging and authored more than 194 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and 261 abstracts at national and international conferences. He has served on the editorial board and as a reviewer for several peer reviewed scientific journals. Dr. Jahangir is also the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the William B Abrams Award in Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology and multiple awards from Mayo Clinic and Aurora Health Care for research on cardiovascular diseases. He has served as mentor for several clinicians and scientists while leading the CardioGerontology Research Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and Arizona and the Center for Integrative Research on Cardiovascular Aging in Wisconsin, currently mentoring the next generation of young cardiologists at Advocate Aurora Health and at the national level with Heart Rhythm Society and American Heart Association.
Jasbir Sra, MD, FACC
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
Clinical Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
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.
Dr. 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.
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. He has also published more than 65 original manuscripts and 53 reviews or book chapters.
Warren M. Jackman, MD
George Lynn Cross Research Professor, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Senior Scientific Advisor, Heart Rhythm Institute
Visiting Professor Warren M. Jackman, MD, provides one of the didactic components of the Aurora Health Care Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program. Once a month, Dr. Jackman attends two to three live cases and lectures Aurora fellows who are pursuing advanced training in electrophysiology.
A preeminent electrophysiologist, Dr. Jackman performed the earliest accessory pathway (WPW) and slow pathway (atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia) catheter ablation procedures in the world. His research has resulted in many accolades, including for his work in the development of catheter ablation techniques. He has published more than 300 abstracts, 40 invited reviews and 100 original research manuscripts.
Fellowship faculty
Many of our full-time faculty – past and present – are graduates of our fellowship programs, and are known nationally and internationally. Our faculty's collective years of experience and expertise have positively impacted our graduating fellows, many of whom now have successful practices in the Milwaukee area and beyond.
Our physicians have served in a teaching capacity as full-time clinical faculty for years, and are strongly committed to teaching and training fellows.
Electrophysiology
Atul Bhatia, MD, FACC
Program Director
Electrophysiology
M. Eyman Mortada, MD, FACC
Electrophysiology (adult and pediatric)
Anwer Dhala, MD, FACC
Electrophysiology
Vikram Nangia, MD, FACC
Electrophysiology
Jasbir Sra, MD, FACC
Electrophysiology
Mohammed Djelmami-Hani, MD
Electrophysiology
Jodi Zilinski, MD
Electrophysiology
Imran Niazi, MD
Electrophysiology
Warren Jackman, MD
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