Keeping the Beat: Raising Awareness About Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Dr. Sengupta is a graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis. He did his Fellowship training in Cardiology and subsequently Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Sengupta is board certified in Cardiac Electrophysiology; he specializes in the treatment of arrhythmias and performs procedures including catheter ablation and cardiac rhythm device implantation and management. He is Director of the Joseph F. Novogratz Family Heart Rhythm Center at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation where the mission is to improve care for patients with heart rhythm disorders through innovation and research that advances the field of cardiac electrophysiology.

He is Director of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Genetic Arrhythmia Center and Co-Director of the Cardiac Pacing and Device Clinic at Abbott Northwestern Hospital (ANW). He is involved in educating future cardiologists and physicians as faculty in the Hennepin County Medical Center/MHI Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship and a yearly mentor for MHI summer research interns.

Recent awards include the Ray Bentdahl MHIF Distinguished Service Award, Distinguished Teaching Award in the Hennepin County Medical Center/MHI Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, and Rising Star/Top Docs in MPLS. St. Paul Magazine.

Edwin Zishiri, MD is a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute. Dr. Zishiri received his MB.ChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) from the University of Zimbabwe. He completed a research fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health. He then completed residency and chief residency at the Boston University Medical Center, followed by fellowships in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic. His clinical interests include catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias; pacemakers, ICD and BIV device implants; lead extractions and risk stratification; and prevention of sudden cardiac death. He also has additional training in complex arrhythmia ablation.

Dr. Hauser retired from the Minneapolis Heart Institute in 2015 where he was a Senior Consulting Cardiologist. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, former Professor of Medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago, and Chairman and CEO of Cardiac Pacemakers (now Boston Scientific) in St. Paul.  Dr. Hauser is currently a founding member and serves on the board of the Joseph F. Novogratz Family Heart Rhythm Center at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation.