Professor of Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Attending Physician
Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Novel techniques of mapping and treatment with catheter ablation for clinical arrhythmias. Atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Novel energy delivery techniques for mapping arrhythmias. Identification and treatment of atrial fibrillation and complex atrial arrhythmias and ventricular tachycardia to identify patients at high risk to prevent sudden cardiac death.

1976–1978
Cardiology Fellowship, The Massachusetts General Hospital
1974–1975
Internship and Residency in Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
1997
M.S., Northeastern University, Mathematics
1974
M.D., Harvard Medical School
1969
B.A., Harvard University, Biochemistry

2001–present
Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
2000–2001
President George Bush Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
2000–2001
Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
2000–2001
Clinical Cardiology Executive Leadership Group, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
1988–1999
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
1982–1988
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
1979–1981
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

National Board of Medical Examiners, 1975
American Board of Internal Medicine, 1977
American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, 1979
American Board of Internal Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, 1997

DREAMS Grant, U.S. Army, 2000-2001
Phi Beta Kappa
Established Investigator, American Heart Association
President George Bush Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine

Fellow, American College of Cardiology
North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology
American Heart Association, Basic Science Council Member
Paul Dudley White Society

Journal Articles

O'Callaghan PA, Poloniecki J, Sosa-Suarez G, Ruskin JN, Garan H. Long-term clinical outcome of patients with prior myocardial infarction after palliative radiofrequency catheter ablation for frequent ventricular tachycardia. Am J Cardiol 2001;87:975-979.

Rankin AC, Osswald S, McGovern BA, Ruskin JN, Garan H. Mechanism of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia in systemic sclerosis. Am J Cardiol 2000; 83:633-636.

Books/Book Chapters/Monographs

Garan H, McGovern BA. Electrophysiologic Testing and Cardiac Mapping. In: Podrid PJ, Kowey PR, eds, Cardiac Arrhythmia, 2nd Ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.

Voros S, Garan H. Cardiac Arrhythmias. In: Pohost G (ed), Imaging in Cardiovascular Disease. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.

Garan H. Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy in Patients with Repolarization Abnormalities. In: Beithandt G, Oto A, eds, Myocardial Repolarization: From Gene to Bedside. Armonk, NY: Futura Publishing Co. (In press)

Lecture Topics

Non-pharmacologic treatment methods for atrial fibrillation

Risk stratification and protection against sudden cardiac death

Non-Pharmacologic therapies for ventricular tachycardia

Wide-spectrum and catheter ablation methods for treatment of atrial arrhythmias

Novel methods of catheter ablation

Biventricular pacing for heart failure