Alborz Hassankhani, MD, PhD practices interventional cardiology and cardiac rhythm management in La Mesa's Grossmont area at 8851 Center Drive near Sharp Grossmont Hospital, holding dual board certification in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology from the American Board of Internal Medicine. The electrophysiology scope spans device implantation, arrhythmia ablation, and cardiac monitoring for ventricular tachycardia and sick sinus syndrome — procedures performed on the same Sharp Grossmont campus as the diagnostic cardiology team at Azimi Cardiovascular Institute. A PhD in neuroscience from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, where the medical degree was also earned with honors in 1996, provides a neurocardiologic research foundation rare among community-practice electrophysiologists. Dual fellowships at UC San Diego Medical Center — cardiovascular disease from 1999 to 2002 and clinical cardiac electrophysiology from 2002 to 2004 — followed an internal medicine residency at the University of Washington. Peer-reviewed publications in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology include work on heart rate turbulence as a predictor of ventricular arrhythmia initiation, and the practice coordinates cardiac medication management with independent dispensaries such as Medical Arts Pharmacy on the Grossmont corridor. Highest-complexity interventions include catheter ablation for refractory atrial fibrillation, cardiac resynchronization therapy device implantation for advanced heart failure, and lead extraction procedures for infected or fractured pacemaker and defibrillator leads.