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Dr Adam Fitzpatrick
Dr Adam Fitzpatrick MBBS BSc(Hons.) MD FRCP FACC, is a consultant cardiologist at The Manchester Heart Centre.
He qualified in 1982 at the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London . His training included postings at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital , National Heart Hospital , Westminster Hospital , Royal Brompton Hospital , Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, and University of California , San Francisco .
Dr Fitzpatrick has special interests in Syncope, Catheter Ablation for Cardiac
Arrhythmias, Pacing, Implantable Defibrillators and Coronary Angioplasty. He joined the team at the Manchester Heart Centre in 1995 from the Faculty of the University of California at San Francisco , where he was an Assistant Professor in the Department that first described the technique of catheter ablation.
Dr Fitzpatrick is on the organizing committee of UKICES (Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology Society) He is also a member of the American College of Cardiology, North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, The British Cardiac Society, The British Pacing and Electrophysiology Group, The British Cardiovascular Intervention Society & The Royal Society of Medicine
Dr Fitzpatrick's research interests are the Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Management of Syncope; New Mapping Technologies for Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias; Cost-Effectiveness of ICD Therapy; Outcomes After Electrophysiological Interventions; Syncope & Misdiagnosis of Epilepsy.
In 2004, Dr Fitzpatrick became one of the founding patrons of Arrhythmia Alliance, which seeks to improve diagnosis, treatment and research for cardiac arrhythmias and to have a great influence on the new NSF chapter for arrhythmias. We are delighted that he has now agreed to become a patron for STARS.
