Phone:

(304) 697-2035

Practice Location:

Phone:

(304) 399-7548

Practice Location:

Electrophysiology

Education:

• Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan, Medical Education
• St. John Hospital / Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (Residency)
• Clinical Research Fellowship in Electrophysiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mid-America Heart Institute
• Fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mid-America Heart Institute
• Post-doctoral Clinical Research Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.

Board Certifications:

• American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM): Internal Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM): Cardiovascular Disease
• American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM): Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Academic Awards and Honors:

• Invited Chair: Oral Abstract Session Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Annual Scientific Sessions (2007)
• Heart Rhythm Society Fellows Research Award (2006)
• Outstanding Resident Research Award
• Oral Presentation Award, ACP Michigan Chapter
• Poster Competition Award, ACP Michigan Chapter
• Talent Scholarship (High School)

Expertise

Comprehensive Arrhythmia Management:

• Catheter Ablation and antiarrhythmic drug treatment for:
  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Atrial flutter
  • SVT (supraventricular tachycardia)
  • PVC (premature ventricular contraction)
  • PAC (premature atrial contraction)
  • VT (ventricular tachycardia)
  • Inappropriate sinus tachycardia
  • Atrial tachycardia
• Device implantation, monitoring and follow-up for:
  • Pacemakers
  • Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)
  • Lead extractions
  • Lead revisions
  • Implantable loop recorder
• Tilt table testing
• Heart failure management & optimization of CRT devices
• Holter monitoring
• Outpatient event monitoring
• Remote monitoring of implanted devices

Peer-Reviewed Publications & Book Chapters

Fragmented QRS and Mortality Risk in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction.Aamir Cheema MD, Adnan Khalid MD, Alan Wimmer MD, Cheryl Bartone BS, Theodore Chow MD, John A. Spertus MD, Paul Chan MD. Circulation Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology. 2010 Aug 1;3(4):339-44. Epub 2010 May 28

Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Circumferential Ablation with Pulmonary Vein Isolation. Aamir Cheema M.D., Jun Dong M.D., PhD., Darshan Dalal M.D., M.P.H., Chandrasekhar Vasamreddy, M.D., Joseph E. Marine, M.D., Charles A. Henrikson, M.D., David Spragg, M.D., Alan Cheng, M.D., Saman Nazarian, M.D., Sunil Sinha, M.D., Henry Halperin, M.D.,M.A., Ronald Berger, M.D., PhD., Hugh Calkins, M.D. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 2006 Oct;17(10):1080-5.

Circumferential Ablation with Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Permanent Atrial Fibrillation. Aamir Cheema, MD, Jun Dong, MD, PhD, Darshan Dalal, MD, MPH, Joseph E. Marine, MD, Charles A. Henrikson, MD, David Spragg, MD, Alan Cheng, MD, Saman Nazarian, MD, Kenneth C. Bilchick, MD, Ibrahim Almasry, MD, Sunil Sinha, MD, Daniel Scherr, MD, Henry Halperin, MD,MA , Ronald Berger, MD, PhD., Hugh Calkins, MD. Am J Cardiol. 2007 May 15;99(10):1425-8.

Incidence & Time Course of Early Recovery of PV Conduction after Catheter Ablation of A Fib. Aamir Cheema, MD, Jun Dong, MD, PhD, Darshan Dalal, MD, MPH, Joseph E. Marine, MD, Charles A. Henrikson, MD, David Spragg, MD, Alan Cheng, MD, Saman Nazarian, MD, Kenneth C. Bilchick, MD, Ibrahim Almasry, MD, Sunil Sinha, MD, Daniel Scherr, MD, Henry Halperin, MD,MA , Ronald Berger, MD, PhD., Hugh Calkins, MD. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2007 Apr;18(4):387-91.

Long-Term Single Procedure Efficacy of Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Aamir Cheema, M.D., Chandrasekhar Vasamreddy, M.D., Darshan Dalal, M.D., MPH, Joseph E. Marine, M.D., Jun Dong, M.D., Charles A. Henrikson, M.D., David Spragg, M.D., Alan Cheng, M.D., Saman Nazarian, M.D., Sunil Sinha, M.D., Henry Halperin, M.D.,M.A., Ronald Berger, M.D., PhD., Hugh Calkins, M.D. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology 2006 Apr;15(3):145-55.

Chronic Kidney Disease and Mortality in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Recipients. Aamir Cheema, MD, Tejwant Singh, MD, Manreet Kanwar MD, Karuna Chilukuri MD, Viqar Maria MD, Fareena Saleem MD, Katrina Johnson RN, John Frank MD, Louis Pires MD, Sohail Hassan MD. Cardiol Res Pract. 2010 Aug 3;2010.

Recurrent Acute Profound Thrombocytopenia related to Re-administration of Eptifibatide. Aamir Cheema MD, Andrew Teklinski MD, Viqar Maria MD, Karuna Chilukuri MD, John Frank MD, Marc Gosselin DO. The Journal of Interventional Cardiology, 2006 Feb;19(1):99-103. 'Atrial Arrhythmia' . A chapter in a textbook titled as "Treatment of Advanced Heart Disease". Aamir Cheema MD, Hugh Calkins MD. Kenneth L. Baughman M.D. (Editor), Harvard Medical School , Taylor and Francis Group, 2006 Mar;167-182.

Use of Abciximab in Massive Pulmonary Embolism with Free-floating Intra-cardiac Thrombi. Safwan Kassas MD, Aamir A. Cheema MD. Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 2004

Oct; 92(4):883-5. Automated Detection of Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms in Human Left Atrium during A. Fib. Daniel Scherr, Darshan Dalal, Aamir Cheema, Saman Nazarian, Kenneth Bilchick, Ibriham Almasry, Harikrishna Tandri, Alan Cheng, Charles Henrikson, Ronald Berger, Hugh Calkins, Jun Dong. Heart Rhythm 2007 Aug;4(8):1013-20.

C-Reactive Protein in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: A Review of the Evidence. Abraham, Campbell, Cheema, Gluckman, Blumenthal, Danyi. J Cardiometab Syndr. 2007 Spring;2(2):119-23.

Initial experience in the use of integrated electroanatomic mapping with three-dimensional MR/CT images to guide catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. J, Dickfeld T, Dalal D, Cheema A, Vasamreddy C, Henrikson C, Marine J, Halperin H, Berger R, Lima J, Bluemke D, Calkins H. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Vol. 17, pp. 1-8, March 2006.

Usefulness of clinical evaluation, troponins, and C-reactive protein in predicting mortality among stable hemodialysis patients. Manpreet Kanwar MD, Mustafa Hashim MD, Howard Rosman MD, Aamir Cheema MD, Julius Gardin MD, James, Maciejko PhD. American Journal of Cardiology 2006 Nov 1;98(9):1283-7.

Impact of Heart Rhythm Status on Registration Accuracy of the Left Atrium for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Dong, Jun; Dalal, Darshan; Scherr, Daniel; Cheema, Aamir; Nazarian, Saman; Bilchick, Kenneth; Almasry, Ibrahim; Cheng, Alan; Henrikson, Charles; Spgragg, David; Marine, Joseph; Berger, Ronald; Calkins, Hugh. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2007 Dec;18(12):1269-76.

Long- and Short-term Temporal Stability of Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms in Human Left Atrium during Atrial Fibrillation. Scherr, Daniel; Darshan, Dalal; Cheema, Aamir; Nazarian, Saman; Bilchick, Kenneth; Almasry, Ibrahim; Cheng, Alan; Henrikson, Charles; Spgragg, David; Marine, Joseph; Berger, Ronald; Calkins, Hugh. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2009 Jan;20(1):13-2.

Complications of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: incidence and predictors. Spragg DD, Dalal D, Cheema A, Scherr D, Chilukuri K, Cheng A, Henrikson CA, Marine JE, Berger RD, Dong J, Calkins H. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2008 Jun;19(6):627-31.

Warfarin Allergy: An Easy Solution. Martha Bogart RN, PhD, Aamir Cheema MD, Douglas Bogart MD. Clinical Cardiology. 2010 Mar;33(3):E31-2.

Should people on aspirin avoid Ibuprofen? A review of the literature. Aamir Cheema MD. Cardiology in Review. 2004 May-Jun; 12(3):174-6.

How should we diagnose diabetes mellitus? Review of the new diagnostic criteria Aamir Cheema MD, Raymond C. Hilu MD. Resident and Staff Physician. 2004 Oct; 50(10): 35-39.

Heparinization During Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: A Comparison of Patients Treated with Dabigatran vs Patients Maintained on Warfarin. Sai Konduru, MD, Aamir Cheema, MD, Philip Jones, Yan Li, Brian Ramza MD, PhD, Alan P. Wimmer, MD, FHRS (submitted to 'Heart Rhythm').

Phone:

(304) 525-6825

Practice Location:

St. Mary's Outpatient Building, Suite 10

Phone:

(304) 525-6825

Practice Location:

St. Mary's Outpatient Building, Suite 10