Sumeet S. Chugh, MD, FACC, FHRS
Associate Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute; Section Chief, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology; Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology; Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series; Professor of Medicine-in-Residence, UCLA
Sumeet S. Chugh, MD, an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm abnormalities and a leader in sudden cardiac arrest research, is Associate Director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where he also serves as Section Chief of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. Dr Chugh is the holder of the Pauline and Harold Price Endowed Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research at Cedars-Sinai and Professor of Medicine in Residence at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Chugh is board-certified in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. He is an expert in the performance of radiofrequency ablation procedures as well as the use of pacemakers, defibrillators and biventricular devices to correct heart rhythm problems.
Dr Chugh's research is supported by the National Institutes of Health and a collaborative grant with the Johns Hopkins-Reynolds Cardiovascular Center. He has published over 130 articles and abstracts in professional journals. He initiated, and continues to direct, the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study, a comprehensive assessment of sudden cardiac arrest in a community of one million residents ongoing for seven consecutive years. Today, this research continues to shed light on the risk factors, triggers and genetic defects related to sudden cardiac arrest with the overall goal of designing novel techniques for prevention of this condition.
Dr Chugh is a recipient of the Doris Duke Innovation in Clinical Research Award. He is currently a charter member of the Electrical Signaling, Ion Transport, and Arrhythmias Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health. He is the current chair of the Clinical Research and Training Committee of the Heart Rhythm Society. He leads the World Health Organization panel that is charged with performing a worldwide assessment of heart rhythm disorders for the Global Burden of Disease Study.
Dr. Chugh received his medical degree from Punjabi University, India. He undertook the first year of his internal medicine residency at Tufts Newton Wellesley Hospital in Boston, with the final two years at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at the University of Minnesota and a fellowship in clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
