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Harikrishna Tandri, MBBS

Professor of Medicine

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Director, Arrythmia/Electrophysiology

Harikrishna Tandri
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Harikrishna Tandri, MBBS, is a Professor of Medicine and a clinician-educator in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia program. He specializes in the diagnosis and management of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with inherited heart disease. He is an internationally recognized expert in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and in epicardial ventricular tachycardia ablation procedures. In addition to this, he has been involved in innovating new methods and devices for treating arrhythmias while reducing the pain of cardiac defibrillation, and for rapidly cooling vulnerable brain and spinal tissue to protect them during cardiac arrest. Dr. Tandri studied medicine at the University of Health Sciences in India and the Royal College of Physicians in England. He completed residencies in internal medicine and cardiology in India, England, and at the Harbor Hospital Center in Baltimore. He then pursued fellowships in ARVD research and electrophysiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Tandri has received numerous awards, including BME IDEA of the Year for his Rapid Hypothermia Device. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, many on the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias and ARVD.
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Education

MBBS - University of Health Sciences, 1995

MRCP - Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 1999

Internship - Medicine - University of California, Los Angeles, 2000

Residency - Medicine - University of California, Los Angeles, 2001

Fellowship - Cardiology - Johns Hopkins University, 2003

Fellowship - Clinical Fellow, Cardiology - Johns Hopkins University, 2005

Fellowship - Electrophysiology - Johns Hopkins University, 2008

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