Emile Daoud, MD, FACC, is the section director of Electrophysiology and a professor of clinical medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center. Dr. Daoud was named one of America’s Best Doctors and a Top Ten Faculty Educator at Ohio State in 2009.

Dr. Daoud earned his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, and completed his internship, residency and a research fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He completed two additional fellowships at the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. He was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan for three years before joining Ohio State’s Medical Center.

Dr. Daoud is a nationally noted authority in the field of electrophysiology. He performed the first ablation procedure in the U.S. for atrial fibrillation using the circular pulmonary vein mapping catheter. In addition, Dr. Daoud is widely published in more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and participates in several clinical trials through Ohio State’s Electrophysiology Research program. Dr. Daoud is a Fellow in the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American Heart Association, Heart Rhythm Society and Cardiac Electrophysiology Society. His clinical and research interests focus on electrophysiology, specifically the curative ablation of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.