Allan Skanes
Allan C. Skanes, MD, FRCPC, FHRS
Professor
Department of Medicine
Director of Electrophysiology Laboratory
London Health Sciences Centre
Dr. Allan Skanes is currently the Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at the London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada, and a Professor of Medicine at Western University.
He received his medical degree in 1990 from the University of Toronto where he also completed his Internal Medicine training. He completed his Cardiology and Electrophysiology training at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute before a research fellowship in Syracuse New York, investigating the underlying mechanisms of arrhythmia, especially atrial fibrillation.
The Electrophysiology Laboratory, a busy interventional program with an active and productive research program, is a current clinical user of state of the art imaging and navigation technologies. Dr. Skanes, Director, is an experienced electrophysiologist and clinician scientist with a specific interest in non-pharmacologic therapy for arrhythmia, remote and non-fluoroscopic catheter navigation and catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmia. He is uniquely skilled to evaluate clinical utility of imaging and tracking technologies, image-modality compatible tools, as well as fusion of device representations with maps of anatomy and function.
Most recently, he co-chaired the 2010 Canadian Cardiovascular Society management guidelines for atrial fibrillation as well as the 2012 Focused Update. He is actively researching novel non-fluoroscopic catheter navigation technologies in animal models, as well as human studies. His research contributes clinical relevance and applicability to development of navigation and guiding technologies. It also provides unique experience and skill set, as well as environment for further translational development to human studies.
He has published 144 peer-reviewed papers and 10 book chapters.
