Ramanan Kumareswaran - Faculty Biosketch

Ramanan Kumareswaran, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Department: Medicine

Contact information

One Convention Avenue, Level 2 – City Side
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-265-2129

Education:
BSc (Honors with Distinction, Life Sciences/Mathematics)
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 2003.
MD (Medicine)
Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago Medical School, 2007.

Post-Graduate Training
Intern, Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2007-2008.
Resident, Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2008-2010.
Fellow, Cardiovascular Diease, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2010-2013.
Chief Cardiology Resident, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2012-2012.
Chief Cardiology Resident, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2013-2013.
Fellow, Electrophysiology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2013-2015.
Fellow, Electrophysiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2015-2017.

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2010.
American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, 2013.
American Board of Internal Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2019.

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Selected Publications

Yogasundaram H, Papireddy MR, Nazarian S, Guandalini GS, Markman TM, Schaller RD, Riley MP, Lin D, Dixit S, D'Souza B, Kumareswaran R, Callans DJ, Frankel DS, Garcia FC, Zado E, Deo R, Epstein AE, Supple GE, Marchlinski FE, Hyman MC.: Long-term risk of right coronary artery injury after catheter ablation of cavotricuspid isthmus-dependent flutter. Heart Rhythm 22(7): 1675-1681, Jul 2025.

Oraii A, Hanumanthu BKJ, Petzl A, Liao TW, Afzalian A, Rodriguez-Queralto O, Chaumont C, Spears J, Markman TM, Hyman MC, Tschabrunn CM, Guandalini G, Enriquez A, Shivamurthy P, Kumareswaran R, Deo R, Ferrari VA, Riley MP, Lin D, Callans DJ, Supple GE, Schaller RD, Frankel DS, Garcia FC, Nazarian S, Dixit S, Marchlinski FE.: Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in patients with cardiac amyloidosis and sarcoidosis: procedural findings and outcomes. Europace 27(6): euaf100, Jun 2025.

Oraii A, Chaumont C, Rodriguez-Queralto O, Wasiak M, Thind M, Peters CJ, Zado E, Hanumanthu BKJ, Markman TM, Hyman MC, Tschabrunn CM, Guandalini G, Enriquez A, Shivamurthy P, Kumareswaran R, Riley MP, Lin D, Schaller RD, Nazarian S, Callans DJ, Supple GE, Garcia FC, Frankel DS, Dixit S, Marchlinski FE.: Preprocedural Screening Tool to Guide Nonpulmonary Vein Trigger Testing in First-Time Atrial Fibrillation Ablation. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 18(1): e0131351, Jan 2025.

Enriquez A, Gonzalez R, Kumareswaran R, Supple G, Scheinman M.: Electrophysiologic diagnosis of narrow and wide complex tachyarrhythmias. Heart Rhythm 21(11): 2215-2225, Nov 2024.

Kataoka S, Yogasundaram H, Mann T, Lee B, Kumareswaran R, Supple GE, Hsia HH, Callans DJ, Scheinman MM.: A Tale of 2 Troubling Tachycardias. JACC Clin Electrophysiol 15(4): 154-158, Oct 2024.

Oraii A, Chaumont C, Rodriguez-Queralto O, Petzl A, Zado E, Markman TM, Hyman MC, Tschabrunn CM, Enriquez A, Shivamurthy P, Kumareswaran R, Riley MP, Lin D, Supple GE, Garcia FC, Schaller RD, Nazarian S, Frankel DS, Dixit S, Callans DJ, Marchlinski FE.: Incremental Benefit of Stepwise Nonpulmonary Vein Trigger Provocation During Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. JACC Clin Electrophysiol 10(7): 1648-1659, Jul 2024.

Zado ES, Garg L, Tschabrunn C, Santangeli P, Hyman M, Kumareswaran R, Arkles J, Marchlinski FE.: Risk of atrial arrhythmias in patients with ventricular tachycardia in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Heart Rhythm 22(15): e102451, May 2024.

Schaller RD, Hyman M, Supple GE, Santangeli P, Riley MP, Nazarian S, Arkles J, Garcia F, Lin D, Guandalini G, Kumareswaran R, Deo R, Bode W, Markman T, Epstein A, Callans DJ, Dixit S, Brozoski J, Marchlinski FE, Frankel DS.: Defibrillation testing of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator at the time of generator replacement. Heart Rhythm 21(1): 117-118, Jan 2024.

Thind M, Arceluz MR, Lucena-Padros I, Kubala M, Mirwais M, Bode W, Cerantola M, Sugrue A, Van Niekerk C, Vigdor A, Patel NA, AlSalem AB, Zado ES, Kumareswaran R, Lin D, Arkles JS, Garcia FC, Guandalini GS, Markman TM, Riley MP, Deo R, Schaller RD, Nazarian S, Dixit S, Epstein AE, Supple GE, Frankel DS, Tschabrunn CM, Santangeli P, Callans DJ, Hyman MC, Marchlinski FE: Identifying Origin of Nonpulmonary Vein Triggers Using 2 Stationary Linear Decapolar Catheters: A Novel Algorithm. JACC Clin Electrophysiol 9(11): 2275-2287, Nov 2023.

Arceluz MR, Thind M, Garcia FC, Guandalini GS, Santangeli P, Hyman M, Deo R, Frankel DS, Supple GE, Schaller RD, Callans DJ, Nazarian S, Dixit S, Kumareswaran R, Zado ES, Marchlinski FE: Sinus rhythm electrocardiographic abnormalities, sites of origin, and ablation outcomes of ventricular premature depolarizations initiating ventricular fibrillation. Heart Rhythm 20(6): 844-852, Jun 2023.