Dr Laurence Epstein is the System Director of Electrophysiology for Northwell Health in New York, US. In addition, he is a professor of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell Heath.
The author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications, Dr Epstein's clinical and research interests include pathophysiology and treatment of a variety of cardiac arrhythmias. This has included device therapy, catheter ablation, and image guided therapy. He is considered one of the world's experts in transvenous lead management and extraction.
He has been listed as one of America's Top Doctors by Castle Connolly and named a top cardiac electrophysiologist by Boston Magazine. Dr Epstein received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) and a cardiology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a clinical fellowship and a research fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at UCSF.
