Yawar Saeed

Assistant Professor
Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine

Co-Chair, Department of Medicine, UGME

Telephone: 0092 21 34864701

Education

PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, 2016 

Fellowship in Electrophysiology and Devices in Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool UK, 2016

Cardiology Fellowship at Mersey Deanery Cardiology training program, UK, 2011

MBBS, Dow Medical College, University of Karachi, Pakistan 2002

Research interests

Atrial Fbrillation Management

Inherited Cardiac Conditions 

Sudden Cardiac Death

Experience

Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, 2018 - to date
Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at St Helen’s and Knowsley NHS Foundation Trust, St Helens, UK, 2018
Mirium L. Burnett Fellowship in Electrophysiology and Devices at Toronto General Hospital (TGH), Toronto, Canada, 2016-2018 


Professional associations

Joint Secretary, Heart Rhythm Society

Publications

Information theory to tachycardia therapy: Electrogram entropy predicts diastolic microstructure of reentrant ventricular tachycardia. S Nayyar, E Downar, M Behesti, T Liang, S Masse, K Magtibay, A Bhaskaran, Y Saeed, E Vigmond,
K Nanthakumar. American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2019 Jan;1;316(1):H134-H144 doi:
10.1152/ajpheart.00581.2018. PMID30339499

Structural and functional remodelling of the atrioventricular node with ageing in rats: The role of Hypernucleotideactivated
cyclic nucleotide gated and Ryanodine 2 channels. Yawer Saeed, Ian Temple, Zoltan Borbas, Andrew Atkinson,
Joseph Yanni, Miriam Aly, Sunil JRJ Logantha, Clifford Garratt and Halina Dobrzynski: Heart Rhythm. 2018 May;15(5):752-760.
doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2017.12.027. PMID:29288034

Pulmonary Vein Re-Isolation as a Routine Strategy Regardless of Symptoms: The PRESSURE Randomized Controlled
Trial. Das M, Wynn GJ, Saeed Y, Gomes S, Morgan M, Ronayne C, Bonnett LJ, Waktare JEP, Todd DM, Hall MCS, Snowdon
RL, Modi S, Gupta D. JACC Clinical Electrophysiology. 2017 Jun;3(6):602-611. doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2017.01.016. Epub 2017
Mar 29. PMID: 29759434

Long term arrhythmia outcome in complex congenital patients post Rastelli procedure: Twenty five year single centre
experience. Yawer Saeed, Karthik Viswanathan, Abhishek Bhaskaran, Shouvik Haldar, Sanjib Patra, Benjamin King, Candice
Siliverside, Erwin Oechslin, S Lucy Roche, Vijay Chauhan, Douglas Cameron, Louise Harris, Eugene Downar and Krishnakumar
Nair.Submitted for publication in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 2019

Ablation index, a novel marker of ablation lesion quality: prediction of pulmonary vein reconnection at repeat
electrophysiology study and regional differences in target values. Moloy Das, Jonathan J Loveday, Gareth J Wynn, Sean
Gomes, Yawer Saeed, Laura JBonnett, Johan EP Waktare, Derick M Todd, Mark CS Hall, Richard L Snowdon, Simon Modi,
Dhiraj Gupta. Europace, May 2016, PMID 27247002

Clinical profile information

Clinical designation

Consultant Cardiologist

Specialties

Electrophysiologist 

Created on:02/03/2021 Last modified:09/28/2021

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