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Minang (Mintu) Turakhia

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  • Clinical Offices
    Cardiology Clinic 3801 Miranda Ave Ste 111C Palo Alto, CA 94304
    Tel Work (650) 493-5000 Fax (650) 852-3473
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    Alternate Contact
    Tatyana Perkis Cardiac Arrhythmia Service Tel Work 650-723-7111
    Not for medical emergencies or patient use

Professional Overview

Clinical Focus

  • Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac
  • Cardiology (Heart)
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac
  • Catheter Ablation
  • Atrial Fibrillation
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Administrative Appointments

  • Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Palo Alto VA Health Care System (2008 - present)
  • Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Stanford Hospital and Clinics (2008 - present)
  • Member, Electrocardiography and Arrhythmias Committee, American Heart Association (2009 - present)
  • Member, Young Clinicians and Investigators Committee, American Heart Association Council of Quality and Outcomes Research (2010 - present)
  • Chair, Writing Group, American Heart Association Telemetry Latency Advisory (2010 - present)
  • Co-Chairperson, VA Health Services & Research Career Development Conference (2009 - 2010)

Honors and Awards

  • Department of Medicine Teaching Award, Stanford Department of Medicine (12/2010)
  • E. William Hancock Faculty Teaching Award, Stanford Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (6/2010)

Professional Education

Fellowship: UCSF CA (2008)
Fellowship: UCSF CA (2006)
Internship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA USA (2001)
Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA USA (2003)
Board Certification: Cardiac Electrophysiology, American Board of Internal Medicine (2009)
Board Certification: Cardiovascular Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine (2006)
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Dr. Mintu Turakhia a board-certified internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist and an Instructor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He directs the Cardiac Electrophysiology program at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System and an Associate Investigator at the Center for Health Care Evaluation (CHCE). As an undergraduate, he studied computer science and molecular biology at the University of California Berkeley (1996). He received his MD at the University of California San Francisco (2000) and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston (2003). He returned to UCSF to for advanced fellowship training in Cardiovascular Medicine (2006) and Cardiac Electrophysiology (2008), while also completing a two-year Master's program in Biostatistics and Clinical Research (2008). As a fellow, he received the American College of Cardiology Merck Foundation Postdoctoral Research Award (2006) and was a finalist for the Laennec Society Young Clinician Award (2006).

Dr. Turakhia's research program aims to improve the treatment of heart rhythm disorders by understanding system- and patient-level variation of arrhythmia treatment in Veterans and their relationship to outcomes. In 2009, he received a VA HSR&D Level II 5-year Career Development Award for a project entitled, "Optimizing Care of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in Veterans." He has subsequently received an American Heart Association (AHA) 4-year National Scientist Development Grant (2009) and a 2-year AHA Western States Clinical Research Program Award (deferred).

Dr. Turakhia has over 25 peer-reviewed publications. He is co- chairperson of the 2010 HSR&D CDA annual meeting and a member of the Heart Rhythm Society Clinical Research and Training Committee, AHA Electrocardiography and Arrhythmia Committee, and AHA Young Clinician and Investigators Committee. He is the Associate Web Editor for Archives of Internal Medicine and Associate Editor for the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.

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