EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Internship in Internal Medicine, Yale University Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1992-1993.

Fellowship in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000-2002.

Fellowship in Cardiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1998-2000.

Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1993-1995.

M.D., Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, 1992.

B.S., Pacific Union College, Angwin, California, 1988.

Robert W. Rho M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center

BOARD CERTIFICATION

ABIM, Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2003.

American Board of Internal Medicine, 1995.

ABIM, Cardiovascular Disease, 2001.

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Cardiac resynchronization for heart failure

Atrial fibrillation ablation

Mapping and ablation of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Mapping and ablation of complex arrhythmias

Cardiac resynchronization therapy

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Cardiology Teaching Excellence Award, University of Washington

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Rho, R, Patel, V, Calovic, Z, Kocovic, D, Current Concepts of Biventricular Pacing in Heart Failure, in "Heart failure: A clinician's guide to ambulatory diagnosis and treatment," Jessup, M, Ed., Humana Press, 2002.

Rho, R, Callans, DJ, Management of atrial flutter, in "Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias," Ganz, LI, Ed., Humana Press, 2001.

Patel, VV, Rho, RW, Gerstenfeld, EP, et al., Right bundle branch block ventricular tachycardias: Septal versus lateral ventricular origin based on activation time to the right ventricular apex, Circ. 110:2582-2587.

Rho, RW, Page, RL, Ventricular Arrhythmias, in "Hurst's The Heart," 11th edition, Fuster et al., Eds., McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Rho, RW, Page RL, Biphasic vs. monophasic shock waveform for conversion of atrial fibrillation, Card. Electrophysiol. Rev. 7(3):290-291, 2003.

Rho, R, Kocovic, D, Management of postoperative arrhythmias, Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 12(4):340-361, 2000.

Rho, R, Patel, V, Kocovic, D, Excessive elevations in biventricular thresholds with the use of "Y" adaptors, PACE 26(3):747-751, 2003.