Jasbir S. Sra, MD, FACC

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Electrophysiologist

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Electrophysiology Sub-Specialty Areas of Interest: Catheter Ablation, Atrial Fibrillation, 3-Dimensional Imaging Technology

Author of over 100 abstracts, Dr. Sra is an abstract grader for the Heart Rhythm Society (formerly 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 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 3 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 cardiology training at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin Medical School and stayed for an electrophysiology fellowship, joining the faculty in 1990.

He was the first U.S. clinical investigator to implant an atrial defibrillator, now an important therapy in a subset of patients with this troublesome arrhythmia.

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. 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 has written landmark articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and other national journals on the treatment of syncope.

Dr. Sra has been listed in “The Best Doctors in America.” He is widely sought after to lecture internationally on many aspects of electrophysiology.

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