Venkatakrishna Tholakanahalli

Dr. Venkat Tholakanahalli, currently is Professor of Medicine at University of Minnesota, Chief-Cardiac Electrophysiology, at Minneapolis VA Health Care System. His expertise is in Complex Ventricular Tachycardia ablations with special interest in intra-septal/intramural and epicardial VTs. Dr.Tholakanahalli received prestigious Yang Wang Life time Educator Award from University of Minnesota for outstanding contribution towards teaching and research. He has significant experience in research including first in human studies, investigational device evaluation studies, pre-clinical animal studies and new technology development. He presented First in Human Ultra low Energy Defibrillation study as Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm Society Annual Scientific session May 2023. He has authored many Publications and served in several HRS committees and active in fellowship training