Timm-Michael Dickfeld, MD, PhD, F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S.

• J. W. v. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, MD, 1995

• J. W. v. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, PHD, 1997

• University of Munich, German Heart Institute, Munich, Germany, Residency in Cardiovascular Diseases, 1995-1997

• Duke University, Internal Medicine, 1997-2000

• Johns Hopkins University, Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases, 2000-2003

• Johns Hopkins University, Fellowship in Electrophysiology, 2003-2004

Dr. Dickfeld is a leading electrophysiologist whose clinical practice spans all aspects of electrophysiology (heart rhythm management) including medical treatment, device therapy and extraction as well as atrial/ventricular arrhythmia management and ablation.

Dr. Dickfeld has a special interest in complex atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.

During his fellowship at Johns Hopkins Dr. Dickfeld developed a special expertise in cardiac imaging receiving multiple Young Investigator and Abstract Awards. At the University of Maryland he combined the two fields of electrophysiology and imaging to help develop the field of image-guided electrophysiology and better characterize the arrhythmia substrate and improve the clinical care of patients. His laboratory was the first to integrate functional imaging showing that positron emission tomography (PET) can be used to facilitate ablation for ventricular arrhythmias. Similarly, he was the first to demonstrate that 3D innervation maps can detect abnormalities in the heart muscle to guide the treatment of complex arrhythmias. Under his leadership the University of Maryland became one of the first centers to offer MRI to ICD patients to better guide the care and ablation for cardiac arrhythmias. In the largest available restrospective review Dr. Dickfeld demonstrated no clinical interactions between computed tomography and pacemakers/defibrillators adressing and providing evidence to adjust a FDA advisory for CT imaging in device patients.  Dr. Dickfeld’s work has been supported by multiple grants including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Heart Association (AHA). He has participated in multiple national and international multi-center trials and international registry collaborations.

Dr. Dickfeld is a nationally and internationally renowned electrophysiologist with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and over 200 peer-reviewed presentations and invited speeches. Due to his expertise Dr. Dickfeld was part of the writing committees of multiple national guidelines on sudden cardiac death, ventricular arrhythmias and cardiac imaging lead by the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society. He is a regular reviewer for multiple prestigious cardiac journals including Circulation, JACC, European Heart Journal, Circulation A&E, JACC EP and Heart Rhythm Journal. Dr. Dickfeld has been serving on several editorial boards of cardiac/electrophysiological journals and has been an active member of the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific and Clinical Document Committee.

Atrial and ventricular arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms), cardiac imaging, sudden cardiac death, pacemaker and defibrillator placement, device extraction, atrial fibrillation/tachycardia ablation, ventricular tachycardia ablation, PVC (premature ventricular contraction) ablation, new technologies

Hussein A, Abutaleb A, Jeudy J, Phelan T, Patel R, Shkullaku M, Siddiqi F, See V, Saliaris A, Shorofsky SR, Dickfeld T. Safety of Computed Tomography Imaging in Patients with Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices: Assessment of the FDA Advisory in Real-world Practice. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;63:1769-75.

Pedersen CT, Kay GN, Kalman J, Borggrefe M, Della-Bella P, Dickfeld T, Dorian P, Huikuri H, Kim YH, Knight B, Marchlinski F, Ross D, Sacher F, Sapp J, Shivkumar K, Soejima K, Tada H, Alexander ME, Triedman JK, Yamada T, Kirchhof P; Document Reviewers:, Lip GY, Kuck KH, Mont L, Haines D, Indik J, Dimarco J, Exner D, Iesaka Y, Savelieva I. EHRA/HRS/APHRS expert consensus on ventricular arrhythmias. Heart Rhythm. 2014 Oct;11(10):e166-96

Klein T, Abdulghani M, Smith M, Huang R, Asoglu R, Remo BF, Turgeman A, Mesubi O, Sidhu S, Synowski S, Saliaris A, See V, Shorofsky S, Chen W, Dilsizian V, Dickfeld T. Three-Dimensional 123I-Meta-Iodobenzylguanidine Cardiac Innervation Maps to Assess Substrate and Successful Ablation Sites for Ventricular Tachycardia: A Feasibility Study for a Novel Paradigm of Innervation Imaging.  Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2015 Jun;8(3):583-91

Indik JH, Gimbel JR, Abe H, Alkmim-Teixeira R, Birgersdotter-Green U, Clarke GD, Dickfeld TL, Froelich JW, Grant J, Hayes DL, Heidbuchel H, Idriss SF, Kanal E, Lampert R, Machado CE, Mandrola JM, Nazarian S, Patton KK, Rozner MA, Russo RJ, Shen WK, Shinbane JS, Teo WS, Uribe W, Verma A, Wilkoff BL, Woodard PK. 2017 HRS expert consensus statement on magnetic resonance imaging and radiation exposure in patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices.Heart Rhythm. 2017 Jul;14(7):e97-e153. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2017.04.025. Epub 2017 May 11.

Al-Khatib SM, Stevenson WG, Ackerman MJ, Bryant WJ, Callans DJ, Curtis AB, Deal BJ, Dickfeld T, Field ME, Fonarow GC, Gillis AM, Hlatky MA, Granger CB, Hammill SC, Joglar JA, Kay GN, Matlock DD, Myerburg RJ, Page RL. 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society. Circulation. 2017 Oct 30. pii: CIR.0000000000000549. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000549. [Epub ahead of print]