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Rajat Deo, MD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

  • Director, Penn Arrythmia Genetics Program, Penn Medicine
  • Cardiologist, Department of Athletics, Penn Medicine

Department: Medicine
Division: Cardiovascular Medicine


Contact Information

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania- Pavilion
Cardiac Electrophysiology Program
One Convention Avenue
Level 2/City Side
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215) 615-5455
Fax: (215) 662-2879
Email: rajat.deo@uphs.upenn.edu


Publications

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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

Post-Graduate Training

  • Fellow, Cardiac Electrophysiology
    Johns Hopkins Hospital, 2006 - 2008
  • Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease
    University of California, San Francisco, 2004 - 2006
  • Resident, Internal Medicine
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Parkland Hospital), 2002 - 2004
  • Intern, Internal Medicine
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Parkland Hospital), 2001 - 2002

Certifications

  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine), 2004
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease), 2007
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology), 2010

Description of ITMAT Expertise

Sudden Cardiac Death
Atrial Fibrillation
Proteomics
Population Science

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
  • Deo R : Cor Pulmonale The AHA Clinical Cardiac Consult 2nd ed : 142, Aug 2010
  • 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
  • Deo R, Cannon CP, de Lemos JA : ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Essential Cardiology, Principles and Practices 2nd edition : 489-520, Dec 2005
  • 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