Board certifications
Internal Medicine – American Board of Internal Medicine
Cardiac Electrophysiology – American Board of IM / Clinical Cardiac Electrophys
Cardiovascular Disease – American Board of IM / Cardiovascular Disease
Administrative titles
Director – Cardiac Electrophysiology of Cardiology, South Shore University Hospital
Academic titles
Associate Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Education
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Residencies
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Fellowships
Brigham and Womens Hospital Harvard Medical School
Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center
Board certifications
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysio – American Board of IM / Clinical Cardiac Electrophys
Administrative titles
Director of Service – Director of Electrophysiology of Cardiology – Electrophysiology, Staten Island University Hospital
Academic titles
Associate Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Chief resident
Mt Sinai West
Education
New York Medical College
Residencies
Mt Sinai West
Fellowships
Virginia Commonwealth University
Henry Ford Hospital
Board certifications
Internal Medicine – American Board of Internal Medicine
Administrative titles
System Director Electrophysiol
Academic titles
Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing
Education
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Residencies
University of CA at San Francisco School of Med
Fellowships
University of CA at San Francisco School of Med
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
University of CA at San Francisco School of Med
Dr Stevenson earned his bachelor’s degree from University of South Florida in 1973 and his medical degree from Tulane University in 1979. After training in internal medicine and cardiology at UCLA Center for the Health Sciences he was a research fellow at the University of Limberg, Maastricht, the Netherlands under the direction of Hein Wellens and Pedro Brugada. He joined the faculty of Medicine at UCLA in 1985 and moved to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in 1993 where he became Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 2005. In 2017 he joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University Medical center where he currently holds the title of Professor of Medicine.
In the late 1980s he established a program for catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias at UCLA. In a series of clinical and computational modeling projects he defined techniques using programmed electrical stimulation to localize the source of arrhythmias within the heart thereby facilitating catheter ablation. Refinement of these techniques and their application with advanced technologies have remained a cornerstone of arrhythmia evaluation and therapy for over 30 years. His clinical work focuses on the management of difficult to treat cardiac arrhythmias, and his program at Vanderbilt continues to treat patients referred from throughout North America.
Through clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship programs and postdoctoral research fellowships he has mentored over 70 trainees from the US and abroad. He has been honored with the Vanderbilt Cardiovascular Medicine Teaching award (2020), the Heart Rhythm Society Distinguished Teacher Award (2018), the Michel Mirowski Lectureship from Johns Hopkins Medical School (2018), the Prystowsky Lectureship from the Heart Rhythm Society (2016), the Michel Mirowski Award for Excellence in Clinical Cardiology and Electrophysiology (2012), and the Thinker Award from the University of Miami. He is past president of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society (2009), and is the founding editor of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology of the American Heart Association (2008-2017).
Dr. Shephal Doshi practices Cardiac Electrophysiology (EP) and the management of arrhythmias. He specializes in interventional therapies for arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
Born in Chicago and growing up in Southern California, he attended college at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Cardia EP training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and served as a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Pacific Heart Institute in 2004 and soon became the Director of Cardiac and Pacing at Providence, Saint John’s Health Center now the Executive Director of the Minerd Heart and Vascular Institute.
Dr. Doshi remains active in cutting-edge ablation research involving different forms of ablation energy including pulse field ablation (PFA), laser, cryo, and radiofrequency. He has been a principal investigator (PI) in studies involving PFA, balloon and contact force sensing ablation for atrial fibrillation.
Currently, he remains one of the national PIs and leading experts in alternative therapies to blood thinners in patients with atrial fibrillation to reduce their risk of stroke. He is one of the most experienced implanters worldwide of the Watchman left atrial appendage occluder and is the co National PI for the PINNACLE FLX/CHAMPION AF & Conform IDE Trials. Under his direction, St. Johns Health Center has one of the longest US experiences with this procedure. With this procedure, patients with atrial fibrillation (a heart rhythm disorder) are able to stop their blood thinners.
He remains active in publishing and has co-authored many articles in peer-reviewed cardia and EP journals. He travels internationally lecturing and continues to be involved in clinical research and procedures in Europe, South America, and Asia.
Cardia electrophysiology is not his only passion, however. He remains an avid lifelong LA Lakers fan and loves beach sports, live music, and football.
My passion in Medicine has always been to learn and to educate. I have always tried to simplify complex topics so that I can be an effective learner and teacher. I have been fortunate to work under the tutelage of remarkable mentors to carry this passion.
During my residency training, I remember when I won the Resident of the Year. I was called to a meeting on the telemetry floor with my program director and co-residents and received the award as a surprise. It was a great feeling to be appreciated by my colleagues. I soon became Chief resident and continued through to become Chief fellow during Cardiology training.
My first time outside of the Northwell system was during my Electrophysiology fellowship in Boston. Mark Josephson, Alfred Buxton, and Peter Zimetbaum were great mentors of the field. It was a dream come true to learn from them. I came back home to Northwell two years later and I taught the Cardiology fellows what I learned. I won the Teacher of the Year during my first year as attending. It was amazing how much I learned and taught the fellows during that year. I also got involved with teaching at the medical school small group EKG sessions.
I soon started to focus on my clinical work and established great relationships with cardiology attendings in the community. I quickly became a high-volume operator in EP procedures. During this time, I was also working closely with the Cardiology fellows and IM residents in research. We currently present abstracts and posters at multiple meetings on a yearly basis. We have also published numerous manuscripts and continue to do so. I also published a book chapter with our Pulmonary colleagues on atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea.
As I became more comfortable with my clinical work and research, I started to focus on ways to improve the EP lab with regards to efficiency. I thought if we could finish procedures in a timely manner, we would have more time to teach and do research. I was appointed Director of the EP lab last year and have continued to help grow the volume and improve efficiency. I am continuing to improve my leadership skills to help create a department that works together in an efficient and safe manner for patients.
My plan for the next phase of my development is to establish a more national presence. I want to be able to conduct sessions at ACC and HRS. At the same time, I want to continue to teach and be involved in research with the IM residents and Cardiology/EP fellows. I will always be a learner first and that is my basis of growing. I am very excited to what the future brings.
