Rajat Deo, MD, MTR
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Cardiologist, Department of Athletics, Penn Medicine
Director, Penn Arrythmia Genetics Program, Penn Medicine
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania- Pavilion
Cardiac Electrophysiology Program
One Convention Avenue
Level 2/City Side
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Cardiac Electrophysiology Program
One Convention Avenue
Level 2/City Side
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215) 615-5455
Fax: (215) 662-2879
Fax: (215) 662-2879
Email:
rajat.deo@uphs.upenn.edu
rajat.deo@uphs.upenn.edu
Publications
Education:
S.B. (Biology)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996.
M.D. (Internal Medicine)
University of Michigan Medical School, 2001.
M.T.R. (Masters of Science in Translational Research)
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 2011.
Permanent linkS.B. (Biology)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996.
M.D. (Internal Medicine)
University of Michigan Medical School, 2001.
M.T.R. (Masters of Science in Translational Research)
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 2011.
Selected Publications
Rekapalli P, Oraii A, Heintz J, Dixit S, Epstein AE, Frankel DS, Hyman M, Lin D, Markman T, Messé SR, Nazarian S, Cucchiara B, Schaller RD, See VY, Yang W, Kasner SE, Marchlinski FE, Deo R.: Detection and Significance of Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia in a Post-Stroke Population. JACC Clin Electrophysiol Sep 2025.Sedaghat S, Park S, Walker RF, Wang S, Liu J, Hughes TM, Sabayan B, Tang W, Coresh J, Pankow JS, Walker KA, Casanova R, Dubin R, Deo R, Rotter JI, Wood AC, Ganz P, Lutsey PL, Guan W, Prizment A.: Proteomics-based aging clocks in midlife or late-life and their associated risk of dementia. Commun Med (Lond) 5: 353, Aug 2025.
Kim YG, Nam Y, Westbrook TM, Joo J, Woerner J, Deo R, Ritchie MD, Kim D.: Protein risk scores enable precise prediction of cardiovascular events in chronic kidney disease patients. medRxiv Jul 2025.
Enriquez A, Yogasundaram H, Neira V, Guandalini G, Markman T, Shivamurthy P, Hyman M, Hanumanthu B, Lin D, Schaller R, Supple G, Dixit S, Deo R, Nazarian S, Kumareswaran R, Riley M, Epstein AE, See V, Zado E, Callans D, Frankel D, Marchlinski F, Garcia F.: Stepwise Anatomical Approach to Ablation of Intramural Outflow Tract Ventricular Arrhythmias Guided by Septal Coronary Venous Mapping. Circulation 152: 163-171, Jul 2025.
Guzman DE, Ruvuna L, Guo CJ, Sun Y, Pratte KA, Manichaikul AW, Kim JS, Post WS, Bertoni AG, Allen NB, Watson KE, Pankow JS, Hoffman EA, Dubin RF, Deo R, Barjaktarevic IZ, Bleecker ER, Cooper CB, Ortega VE, Hastie AT, Paine R 3rd, Wells JM, Curtis JL, Silverman EK, Woodruff PG, Garcia CK, Rotter JI, Bowler RP, Ganz P, Barr RG.: Proteomic discovery analysis of quantitatively assessed emphysema in the general population. The MESA Lung Study. Respir Res 26: 236, Jul 2025.
Woerner J, Westbrook TM, Joo J, Shivakumar M, Venkatesh R, Cherlin T, Jung SH, Jeong S, Maseda D, McKeague M, Shwetank, Ionita M, Wagenaar J, Abramowitz SA, Verma A, Zhao B, Lee S, Damrauer S, Levin MG, Heo SC, Cappola TP, Rader DJ, Day S, Deo R, Gelfand JM, Ramessur R, Guerraty MA, Setia-Verma S, Pasaniuc B, Ritchie MD, Apostolidis SA, Greenplate AR, Wherry EJ; Penn Medicine Biobank; Nam Y, Kim D.: Large-scale evaluation of proteomic and polygenic risk scores reveals complementary contributions to incident disease prediction. medRxiv Jul 2025.
Zhou J, Williams C, Staplin N, Judge PK, Mayne KJ, Agrawal N, Arimoto R, Green JB, Cherney DZI, Tuttle KR, Leal J, Clarke P, Emberson JR, Preiss D, Wanner C, Landray MJ, Baigent C, Haynes R, Herrington WG, Mihaylova B; EMPA-KIDNEY Collaborative Group.: Effects of empagliflozin on quality of life and healthcare use and costs in chronic kidney disease: a health economic analysis of the EMPA-KIDNEY trial. EClinicalMedicine 85: 103338, Jul 2025.
Greenberg JH, Abraham AG, Xu Y, Schelling JR, Coca SG, Schrauben SJ, Wilson FP, Waikar SS, Vasan RS, Gutiérrez OM, Shlipak MG, Ix JH, Warady BA, Kimmel PL, Bonventre JV, Parikh CR, Denburg M, Furth S; CKD Biomarkers Consortium.: Biomarker Panels for Discriminating Risk of CKD Progression in Children. J Am Soc Nephrol 36: 1105-1115, Jun 2025.
Tamargo CL, Coca SG, Thiessen Philbrook H, Hu DG, Ix JH, Shlipak MG, Fried LF, Gutierrez OM, Waikar SS, Schrauben SJ, Schelling JR, Ganz P, Kimmel PL, Greenberg JH, Deo R, Takakura A, Vasan RS, Bonventre JV, Parikh CR.: The distal nephron biomarkers associate with diabetic kidney disease progression. JCI Insight 10: e186836, Jun 2025.
Lopez-Silva C, Surapaneni A, Coresh J, Chen TK, Schlosser P, Rhee EP, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Deo R, Ganz P, Dubin R, Ramachandran VS, Kimmel PL, Schrauben SJ, Parikh CR, Bonventre JV, Dobre M, Rao PS, Ricardo AC, Weir MR, Grams ME; CRIC Study Investigators.: Circulating Proteins for Prediction of Kidney Disease Progression and Cardiovascular Outcomes: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Four Cohorts. Am J Nephrol Jun 2025.