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Stony Brook University

Ibrahim Almasry, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Electrophysiology

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
SUNY-Stony Brook
Health Sciences Center T16-080
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Fax: 631-444-1054
Appointments: 631-444-3575
E-mail: mailto:Ibrahim.Almasry@stonybrook.edu

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• G.C.E. University of London, 1986
• M.D. Cairo University, 1993
• Internship, Internal Medicine, Carney Hospital, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 1997-8
• Residency, Internal Medicine, Carney Hospital, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 1998-2000
• Fellowship, Critical Care, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000-2002
• Fellowship, Cardiology, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2002-2005
• Fellowship, Electrophysiology, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2005-2006
• Fellowship, Electrophysiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 2006-2007

BOARD CERTIFICATION

• American Board of Internal Medicine, 2001
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine,2004
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, 2005

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

• Electrophysiology
• Ablation of Atrial fibrillation, Ventricular Tachycardia and other complex ablations
• Device implantation and CRT therapy

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Tachycardia ablation outcomes
• Electrophysiology pacing maneuvers
• 3D arrhythmia mapping techniques

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Impact of heart rhythm status on registration accuracy of the left atrium for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2007 Dec;18(12):1269-76
• Jun Dong M.D., Ph.D., Darshan Dalal M.D., M.P.H., Daniel Scherr M.D., Aamir Cheema M.D., Saman Nazarian M.D., Kenneth Bilchick M.D., Ibrahim Almasry M.D., Alan Cheng M.D., Charles A. Henrikson M.D., David Spragg M.D., Joseph E. Marine M.D., Ronald D. Berger M.D., Ph.D., Hugh Calkins M.D.
• Evaluation of left atrial and posterior mediastinal anatomy by multidetector helical computed tomography imaging: relevance to ablation. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2007 Apr;18(3):217-23.
• Peter S. Hoffmeister , G. Muqtada Chaudhry, Jeffrey Mendel, Ibrahim Almasry, Syed Tahir, Thomas Marchese, Charles I. Haffajee and Michael V. Orlov
• Circumferential ablation with pulmonary vein isolation in permanent atrial fibrillation.Am J Cardiol. 2007 May 15;99(10):1425-8.
• A. Cheema, J. Dong, D. Dalal, J. Marine, C. Henrikson, D. Spragg, A. Cheng, S. Nazarian, K. Bilchick, I. Almasry
• Incidence and time course of early recovery of pulmonary vein conduction after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2007 Apr;18(4):387-91.
• Aamir Cheema M.D., Jun Dong M.D., Ph.D., Darshan Dalal M.D., M.P.H., Joseph E. Marine M.D., Charles A. Henrikson M.D., David Spragg M.D., Alan Cheng M.D., Saman Nazarian M.D., Kenneth Bilchick M.D., Sunil Sinha M.D., Daniel Scherr M.D., Ibrahim Almasry M.D., Henry Halperin M.D., M.A., Ronald Berger M.D., Ph.D., Hugh Calkins M.D.
• Three-dimensional rotational angiography of the left atrium and esophagus--A virtual computed tomography scan in the electrophysiology lab? Heart Rhythm. 2007 Jan;4(1):37-43.
• M. Orlov, P. Hoffmeister, G. Chaudhry, I. Almasry, G. Gijsbers, T. Swack, C. Haffajee

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