Mintu Turakhia, MD, MAS
Mintu Turakhia, MD, MAS
Palo Alto VAMC
Palo Alto, CA
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Dr. Mintu Turakhia a board-certified internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist and an Instructor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He directs the Cardiac Electrophysiology program at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System and an HSR&D Investigator at the Center for Health Care Evaluation (CHCE). As an undergraduate, he studied computer science and molecular biology at the University of California Berkeley (1996). He received his MD at the University of California San Francisco (2000) and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston (2003). He returned to UCSF to for advanced fellowship training in Cardiovascular Medicine (2006) and Cardiac Electrophysiology (2008), while also completing a two-year Master's program in Biostatistics and Clinical Research (2008). As a fellow, he received the American College of Cardiology Merck Foundation Postdoctoral Research Award (2006) and was a finalist for the Laennec Society Young Clinician Award (2006).
Dr. Turakhia's research program aims to improve the treatment of heart rhythm disorders by understanding system- and patient-level variation of arrhythmia treatment in Veterans and their relationship to outcomes. In 2009, he received a VA HSR&D Level II 5-year Career Development Award for a project entitled, "Optimizing Care of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in Veterans." He has subsequently received an American Heart Association (AHA) 4-year National Scientist Development Grant (2009) and a 2-year AHA Western States Clinical Research Program Award (deferred).
Dr. Turakhia has over 25 peer-reviewed publications. He is co- chairperson of the 2010 HSR&D CDA annual meeting and a member of the Heart Rhythm Society Clinical Research and Training Committee, AHA Electrocardiography and Arrhythmia Committee, and AHA Young Clinician and Investigators Committee. He is the Associate Web Editor for Archives of Internal Medicine and Associate Editor for the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.