Andrew Rudin, MD

Dr. Andrew Rudin is a cardiologist and board-certified cardiac electrophysiologist, and one of the leading interventional electrophysiologists in the United States. He earned his medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, where he received the Harold Elster Memorial Prize, awarded to the graduating senior with the highest academic standing. He completed his internal medicine residency and a chief resident year at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he was selected by the Chairman of Medicine to serve as Chief Resident, followed by fellowships in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Dr. Rudin is licensed to practice in New York and Tennessee and sees telehealth patients nationwide through Natural Heart Doctor. He is an active advocate for a root-cause, preventive approach to heart health, which he writes about here on Best Heart Beat — learn more about his background at andrewrudinmd.com.

His primary focus is on the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, particularly, atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is a life-threatening arrhythmia which affects approximately 3 million Americans. The heart’s upper chambers “fibrillate” and beat at rates up to 400-600 times per minute resulting in up to a 50% decrease in cardiac output or the amount of blood the heart can pump. This causes symptoms such as chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath and dizziness. In addition, blood within the heart tends to pool in these upper chambers placing patients at risk for clot formation, stroke and limb loss. Treatments include medications or a catheter-based procedure called cardiac ablation which can be performed as an outpatient and can limit or eliminate the frequency of this rhythm. Dr. Rudin is known for developing a novel approach to the treatment of atrial fibrillation in conjunction with a cardiovascular surgeon called “Cooperative Atrial fibrillation Ablation” with great success rates.