Director
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Department of Medicine
Undergraduate: BS, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Medical School: MD, Medicine, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine
Residency: Internal Medicine, National Naval Medical Center
Fellowship: Cardiology, National Naval Medical Center
Fellowship: Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of California at San Francisco
Honors and Awards:
Fellow, American College of Cardiology
NASPE (N American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology) Young Investigator Awardee
International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology Young Investigator Awardee
Professional Affiliations/Activities:
American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association
Research Interests:
Catheter Ablation Techniques of Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiac Mapping, Pacemaker and Defibrillator Technologies, Device-based Therapies for Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic Disease Management, Computers in Cardiology, Therapeutic Catheter Development
Selected References:
Fisher WG and Swartz JF. Three-dimensional Electrogram Mapping Improves Ablation of Left-sided Accessory Pathways, PACE 1992; 15(12); 2344-2356.
Fisher WG, Bacon ME, Swartz JF. Use of an Orthogonal Electrode Array to Identify the Successful Ablation Site in Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Tachycardia, PACE 1997 20(9 Pt 1): 2188-2192.
Fisher WG, Pelini MA, Bacon ME. Adjunctive Intracardiac Echocardiography to Guide Slow Pathway Ablation in Human Atrioventricular Nadal Reentrant Tachycardia: Anatomic Insights, Circulation 1997; 96: 3021-3029.
Abraham WT, Fisher WG, Smith AL, et al. Cardiac Resynchronization in Chronic Heart Failure, New Engl J Med 2002; 346(24): 1845-1853.