Tina Baykaner

Dr. Tina Baykaner is an Instructor in Stanford University’s Department of Internal Medicine within the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Electrophysiology.

Following her internal medicine residency and her cardiovascular medicine and advanced heart failure fellowships at the University of California-San Diego and electrophysiology fellowship at Stanford, Dr. Baykaner joined the Stanford faculty in 2018. She has published over 200 papers, book chapters, and abstracts, including over fifty original peer-reviewed articles, and has delivered over twenty invited presentations in national and international meetings. She serves as section editor and editorial board member of four electrophysiology journals.

Dr. Baykaner’s current research interests include outcomes research, epidemiology, and mechanisms of rhythm disorders. She is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health to study patient-related outcomes regarding atrial fibrillation ablation. She received prior research funding from the American Heart Association and Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Baykaner’s clinical practice focuses on ablation of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, SVTs, inappropriate sinus tachycardia management, device implantation, and device extraction.

Dr. Baykaner is an active member of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society, and European Society of Cardiology. She serves as an elected member of the Communications Committee for HRS and previously served as an elected member of the ACC Task Force ICD Research Committee. She also served on the Organizing Committee for the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Annual Postdoctoral Research Meeting in 2017 and 2018 and for Early Career sessions for HRS Scientific Sessions in 2019 and 2020.