Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care Group

In 1977 the first electrophysiology program in Wisconsin opened at Mount Sinai Medical Center, now Sinai Samaritan Medical Center in Milwaukee with one full-time electrophysiologist on staff, Masood Akhtar, MD.

Anwer Dhala, MD, FACC

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Electrophysiology Sub-Specialty Areas of Interest: Pediatric Electrophysiology

Dr. Anwer Dhala has been a faculty member since completing his electrophysiology fellowship at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1991. He completed an additional fellowship in pediatric advanced cardiac electrophysiology through the Medical University of South Carolina.

He has published articles in, and is a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Electrocardiography and the American Journal of Cardiology. He has been the principal or senior author of articles published in Circulation, the American Heart Journal, and the journal Pediatric Cardiology and has co-authored articles for other major journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. To date, he has published 56 original papers, 35 reviews and chapters, and approximately 80 abstracts. Dr. Dhala was first to publish an article on the feasibility of catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia in children. At NASPE's 1999 annual scientific session, he presented an abstract on the feasibility of abdominal implantation of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator as an "active can" in children.

Dr. Dhala has spoken at several national and international conferences, including presentations at annual meetings of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE). He has given workshops in catheter ablation in Argentina, Italy, India and the Philippines. In 1997, Dr. Dhala received the Paul Dudley White Scholarship awarded by the American Heart Association, and spent two weeks teaching at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. His most recent honor is inclusion in the 2005-2006 Best Doctors in America database, a position achieved though election by a physician's peers in the field.