Brigham and Women's Hospital, Heart and Vascular Center
70 Francis Street
Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center
Boston, MA  02115
Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center (Foxborough)
22 Patriot Place
Foxborough, MA  02035
About Paul C. Zei, MD
Gender
Male
Leadership Title
Director, Comprehensive Atrial Fibrillation Program
Specialties
Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Interests
arrhythmias
atrial fibrillation
catheter ablation
Bio

Dr. Paul Zei is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Director of the BWH Comprehensive Atrial Fibrillation Program, with a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Zei earned his medical degree and a PhD at Stanford University. He then completed Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Cardiology Fellowship, and Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship training at BWH. After briefly serving on the faculty at BWH, he moved to Stanford University, where he spent eleven years as a faculty member in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology. At Stanford, Dr. Zei developed a program in complex ablation, a research program in technology innovation, and he also served as the Director of Outpatient Cardiology and ECG services. Dr. Zei then returned to Boston to re-join the faculty at BWH and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Zei’s clinical interests focus on management of complex arrhythmias, with an emphasis on atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation of complex arrhythmias, and device implantation. In his role as Director of BWH’s Comprehensive Atrial Fibrillation Program, Dr. Zei brings together a multi-disciplinary approach to the management of patients with Atrial Fibrillation and leads several research initiatives to better understand and treat patients with this condition. Dr. Zei’s research interests are in understanding the basic underlying mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias and developing new technologies to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias.

Education

Internship
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1998 - 1999
Medical School
Stanford University School of Medicine, 1994 - 1998
Board Certifications
Cardiovascular Disease, 2004
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2007
Fellowships
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2001 - 2004
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2004 - 2005

Videos

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Atrial Fibrillation: Risk Factors, Symptoms, and Treatment
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Awards

Boston Magazine Top Doctor, 2022
Castle Connolly America's Top Doctors, 2022
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