Ellison Berns, MD, FACC graduated from Georgetown University of
School of Medicine in 1979. He completed three years of training in
Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and is board certified. Dr.
Berns is board certified in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology,
having completed training at the University of Texas Health Science
Center in Houston. Dr. Berns joined the faculty at the University of
Connecticut in 1988. He developed the electrophysiology programs at St
Francis and New Britain General Hospitals. He also developed the first
interventional and ablation electrophysiology programs in Connecticut
at St. Francis Hospital. He developed the interventional
electrophysiology programs at Hartford Hospital and Connecticut
Children's Medical Center. He remains active in the teaching and
research programs at St. Francis Hospital and the University of
Connecticut.
Neal Lippman, MD, FACC graduated
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his medical
degree in 1986 from
the Cornell University Medical College. He completed training in
Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Cardiac Electrophysiology at The New
York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center in New York City, and was on
faculty at Cornell as an electrophysiologist at The New York Hospital
before joining the faculty of the University of Connecticut Health
Center in 1993. Dr. Lippman is board certified in Internal Medicine,
Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology. He has conducted research on
testing techniques to evaluate syncope and ventricular tachycardia. Dr.
Lippman served as Director of Cardiac Pacing for the University of
Connecticut Health Center, and has advised area hospitals on quality
control for its pacemaker programs. He assisted in the development of
the electrophysiology programs in the Greater Hartford Area.
Joseph Dell'Orfano, MD, FACC
graduated from Fairfield University
and received his medical degree in 1991 from the University of
Connecticut School of Medicine. He completed training in Internal
Medicine at the University of Connecticut and was Chief Medical
Resident at St. Francis Hospital. He was a fellow in Cardiology at the
University of Texas in Houston and completed his Cardiology at the
Pennsylvania State University, where he also completed his training in
Cardiac Electrophysiology. He joined the faculty of the State
University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999 before joining Arrhythmia
Consultants of Connecticut in September, 2001. Dr. Dell'Orfano is board
certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiac
Electrophysiology. He has conducted research on atrial fibrillation,
fetal pacing and cellular repair of the cardiac conduction system.
Aneesh Tolat, MD, FACC graduated from Haverford College
and earned his M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine in
1997. After completing his Internal Medicine training at
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, he trained in Cardiology and
Electrophysiology with Dr.
Mark Josephson at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard
Medical School in Boston. He has been in practice as an attending
Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the University of Pennsylvania Health
System in Philadelphia. He is experienced in
radiofrequency ablation, including AFIB ablations, implantation and
management of ICDs and BIV devices, and arrhythmia management. Dr.
Tolat has written on pacemaker and defibrillator implantation
techniques and has conducted research on risk assessment for prevention
of sudden cardiac death.