Physicians

Alexei Shvilkin MD, PhD

Director of Research, ECG Core Lab
Clinical Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring laboratory at BIDMC

Biography

Dr. Shvilkin received his MD degree from the First Moscow Medical Institute and PhD degree in Cardiology and Pharmacology from the Russian Cardiology Research Center in Moscow. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in Bronx, NY. He completed his training in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Shvilkin works a clinical electrophysiologist at BIDMC and South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth performing a full range of electrophysiological procedures: pacemaker, ICD, and resynchronization therapy, electrophysiological studies and ablations including ablations for atrial fibrillation. He is a Clinical Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia monitoring laboratory at BIDMC. His research interests include 3-dimensional computerized analysis of electrocardiogram.

Phone

617.632.1515

Address

930 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215

Significant Publications

T-vector direction differentiates postpacing from ischemic T-wave inversion in precordial leads. Circulation. 2005 Mar 1;111(8):969-74.

Vectorcardiographic determinants of cardiac memory during normal ventricular activation and continuous ventricular pacing. Heart Rhythm. 2009 Jul;6(7):943-8.

Unfolding the mystery of the T-wave loop. Heart Rhythm. 2009 Apr;6(4):520-1.

Altering ventricular activation remodels gap junction distribution in canine heart. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2001 May;12(5):570-7.

Cardiac memory induced by QRS widening due to propafenone toxicity. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2007 Sep;30(9):1161-4.