Ryan Cooley, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Electrophysiologist

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Electrophysiology

Electrophysiology Sub-Specialty Areas of Interest: Neurocardiogenic Syncope, Implantable Device Therapy for Cardiac Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation

Dr. Ryan Cooley earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin. He was trained in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, where he completed both his internship and residency.

After a cardiology fellowship in Iowa City at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where he was chief cardiology fellow, he went on to a clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, the Milwaukee Clinical Campus of the University of Wisconsin Medical School. He won research awards at both the University of Minnesota and at the University of Iowa. He joined our group and the clinical faculty in 1999.

Dr. Cooley has published 3 abstracts, which included the NASPE award-winning "Alcohol Consumption Potentiates the Hypotensive Response to Orthostatic Stress in Normal Young Adults." He placed 2nd in the Heart Rhythm Society's (formerly NASPE) 1999 Young Investigator award competition. To date, he has co-authored 7 published articles, including a recently published monograph on sudden cardiac death.

His research interests include autonomic responses to neurocardiogenic syncope and the beneficial mechanisms of medications as well as in non-pharmacologic treatment strategies for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.

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