Ahmed F. Osman, MD, FACC, FASE, FESC, FHRS
Electrophysiologists
Speciality
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
About
Dr. Ahmed F. Osman, MD, FACC, FASE, FESC, FHRS is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist in practice in Broward County since December 2004. He is a founding member of the Florida Heart Rhythm Specialists, PLLC. He is the Medical Director of the EP Lab at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the NOVA Southeastern University School of Medicine.
Dr. Osman graduated with honors from the Faculty of Medicine of the Cairo University, Kasr El Eini Hospital, Cairo, Egypt. He then completed his internal medicine training at the Norwalk Hospital/Yale University program in Connecticut. He received extensive training in the cardiovascular medicine program at The Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. His electrophysiology fellowship was completed at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where he also served as assistant lecturer at the Department of Medicine.
Dr. Osman is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, clinical cardiac electrophysiology, nuclear cardiology and echocardiography. He is an active member and fellow in many professional societies including the American Colleges of Physicians (ACP) and Cardiology (ACC), Societies of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and Echocardiography (ASE), Medical (AMA) and Heart Associations (AHA), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
He has multiple peer reviewed publications in the fields of heart failure and non-invasive risk assessment for sudden death. He is an active clinical investigator in several multicenter studies assessing optimization of pacemaker and defibrillator therapy in patients with heart failure and at risk for sudden death.
Dr. Osman specializes in cardiac ablation for curative intervention on rhythm disturbances including atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias. He also offers all aspects of cardiac device therapies, from implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators, including “biventricular” therapies, to post-implant follow-up and optimization of programming. He has practicing privileges at most North Broward County hospitals.
Procedures and Conditions Treated
- AICD Generator Procedures
- AICD Lead Procedures
- Ablations
- Audioelectric Cardiography
- Cardiac Arrest
- Cardiac Arrest - Unexplained
- Cardiac Arrest And Ventricular Fibrillation
- Cardiac Arrhythmia & Conduction Disorders
- Cardiac Contractility Modulation Device Implant
- Cardiac Contractility Modulation Device Removal
- Cardiac Defib Implant W Cardiac Cath W Ami/Hf/Shock
- Cardiac Defib Implant W Cardiac Cath W/O Ami/Hf/Shock
- Cardiac Defib Implant W/O Cardiac Cath
- Cardiac Device Interrogation
- Cardiac Dysrhythmias
- Cardiac EP
- Cardiac Event Recorder Implant
- Cardiac Event Recorder Removal
- Cardiac Monitoring
- Cardiac Pacemaker Device Replacement
- Cardiac Pacemaker Revision Except Device Replacement
- Cardiac arrest and abnormal heart arrhythmia
- Cardiac device implant and removal
- Cardiac device monitoring
- Cardiac resuscitation
- Cardiac ultrasound
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardioversion/Resuscitation
- Circulatory Signs And Symptoms
- Conduction Disorders
- Defibrillator implant and removal
- Defibrillator implant monitoring
- EKG
- EP Studies
- Electrical Cardioversion
- Electrocardiogram
- Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)
- Electrocardiogram Monitoring
- Electronic Evaluation Of Cardiac Contractility Modulation Device
- Electronic Evaluation Of Cardiac Event Recorder
- Electronic Evaluation Of ICD
- Electronic Evaluation Of Pacemaker
- Electrophysiology Study
- Event Monitors
- Fainting
- Heart Arrhythmia
- Heart Disease
- Heart Electrode Procedure
- Heart Screening And Imaging
- Heart arrhythmia diagnosis and treatment
- Heart monitoring
- Holter Monitors
- ICD Implant
- ICD Removal
- Insertable Cardiac Monitoring
- Internal radiation therapy within the heart
- Intracardiac Catheter Ablation
- Intracardiac Echocardiography
- Intracardiac Mapping
- Intracardiac Pacing
- Office - Cardiac Device Interrogation
- Other - Ep Procedures
- Other Electrophysiology Procedure
- Pacemaker Implant
- Pacemaker Removal
- Pacemaker implantation and removal
- Pacer Implant
- Percutaneous Intracariac Procedures
- Pericardial Procedures
- Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implant
- Syncope
- Syncope & Collapse
- Tilt Table Test
- Transesophageal Echocardiography
- Transthoracic Echocardiography
Specialties
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Affiliations
- HCA Florida University Hospital
- HCA Florida Northwest Hospital
- HCA Florida Westside Hospital
Clinic Website
Credentials and Education
Cairo University
Graduate Degree
1991Yale University School of Medicine
Residency
1997Ochsner Medical Foundation
Fellowship
2000Jesuit College of the Holy Family
Undergraduate Degree
1985University of Maryland Medical Center
Fellowship
2001Cairo University
Internship
1993- Cairo University Internship 1994
Awards, Honors & Recognitions
CMS Stage 1 EHR, 2011
CMS Stage 1 EHR, 2012
ACC Fellow
Gulfstream FL-Broward, 2011
Gulfstream FL-Broward, 2012
Gulfstream FL-Broward, 2013
Top Doctors:South Florida, 2012
Publications
The incremental prognostic importance of body fat adjusted peak oxygen consumption in chronic heart failure.
Osman, A. F., Mehra, M. R., Lavie, C. J., Nunez, E., Milani, R. V.
T wave alternans for ventricular arrhythmia risk stratification.
Osman, A.F., Gold, M.R.
Wide area circumferential ablation for pulmonary vein isolation using radiofrequency versus laser balloon ablation.
Jamario Skeete, Parikshit S Sharma, David Kenigsberg, Grzegorz Pietrasik, Ahmed F Osman, Venkatesh Ravi, Jeanne M Du-Fay-de-Lavallaz, Zoe Post, Jeremiah Wasserlauf, Timothy R Larsen, Kousik Krishnan, Richard Trohman, Henry D Huang
Long-term clinical outcomes and prognostic indicators for focal impulse and rotor modulation guided ablation: A single-center observational study.
Matthew R. Lozier, Ronald E. Pachon, John J. Lee, Alexandra M. Sanchez, Elie Donath, Ahmed F. Osman
Rare infection of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead with Candida albicans: Case report and literature review
Nina Thakkar Rivera, Natasha Bray, Hong Wang, Kenneth Zelnick, Ahmed Osman, Ricardo Vicuña
Enhanced detection of arrhythmia vulnerability using T wave alternans, left ventricular ejection fraction, and programmed ventricular stimulation: a prospective study in subjects with chronic ischemic heart disease.
Eric J. Rashba, Ahmed F. Osman, Karen Macmurdy, Malcolm M. Kirk, E R N Samantha Sarang, Robert W. Peters, Stephen R. Shorofsky, Michael R. Gold
Body composition and prognosis in chronic systolic heart failure: the obesity paradox.
Carl J. Lavie, Ahmed F. Osman, Richard V. Milani, Mandeep R. Mehra
Exercise is superior to pacing for T wave alternans measurement in subjects with chronic coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction.
Eric J. Rashba, Ahmed F. Osman, Karen Macmurdy, Malcolm M. Kirk, R N Samantha Sarang, Robert W. Peters, Stephen R. Shorofsky, Michael R. Gold
Influence of QRS duration on the prognostic value of T wave alternans.
Eric J. Rashba, Ahmed F. Osman, Karen MacMurdy, Malcolm M. Kirk, Samantha Sarang, Robert W. Peters, Stephen R. Shorofsky, Michael R. Gold
Lack of benefit of an active pectoral pulse generator on atrial defibrillation thresholds.
Michael R. Gold, Stephen R. Shorofsky, Rachida Bouhouch, Robert A. Joy, D. Scott Kirby, Ahmed F. Osman, Eric J. Rashba