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Atlanta, GA - QA Program - Dr. Kopelman is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. (1980). He completed his internship/residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1983). He completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiac Electrophysiology at The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN (1985), where he has also served as an Instructor in Medicine. He spent two years in academic medicine as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Philadelphia Heart Institute (1988). He founded the cardiac electrophysiology program at Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta and at The Atlanta Cardiology Group, P.C. in 1989, serving as its Director until 1993. He is Co-Director of Electrophysiology Research and affiliate Scientist at the Atlanta Cardiovascular Research Institute where he has played a central role in the program's development in ongoing clinical and pre-clinical research. He has served specific areas of research interest including three dimensional electroanatomical cardiac mapping and ablation. He has authored and co-authored a number of papers in highly refereed publications. He is board certified in Internal Medicine (1983) and the subspecialties of Cardiovascular Disease (1985) and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (1992). Dr. Kopelman has been serving as a Medical Director of LWC/Quality Diagnostic Services since 1995. He has also been named chairperson of the Card Guard International Advisory Board providing new product development and testing assessment. | 