This curriculum vitae summarizes the educational and professional experience of Babak Kazemi Arbat. He received fellowships in interventional electrophysiology and cardiology. He is currently an associate professor of cardiology at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. He has extensive experience in cardiology, having attended over 15 international conferences and published over 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Babak Kazemi Arbat
Department of Cardiology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences,
Phone: 0098-411-3344021, Fax: 0098-411-3344021
Email: bkazemia1966@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
• Fellowship in Interventional Electrophysiology and Cardiac Electrical Devices:
Department of Pacemaker and Electrophysiology, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and
Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2006
• Fellowship in Cardiology:
Department of Cardiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2000.
• Medicine:
Azad University of Tabriz, 1993
• High school:
Safa School, Tabriz, 1986
CURRENT POSITION AND MEDICAL PRACTICE:
Associate professor of cardiology, Interventional Electrophysiologist, Teaching Physician at
Madani Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Department of Cardiology, Tabriz University
of Medical Sciences.

2. PPREVIOUS CONFERENCES AND MINI-COURSE ATTENDER:
1) EUROPACE (The Meeting of the European Heart Rhythm Association) – Prague / Czech
Republic – June 2005.
2) Medtronic’s State of the Art Solutions for Arrhythmia & Heart failure Management –
Istanbul / Turkey – March 2006.
3) The 15th
World Congress in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiac Techniques
(CARDIOSTIM) - Nice Acropolis- French Riviera- June 2006.
4) EUROPACE (The Meeting of the European Heart Rhythm Association) – Lisbon /
Portugal- June 2007.
5) Medtronic course on "Latest Advances in CRT"- Geneva / Switzerland – July 2007.
6) Medtronic course on "ICD Essentials"- Geneva / Switzerland – December 2007.
7) The 16th
World Congress in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiac Techniques
(CARDIOSTIM) - Nice Acropolis- French Riviera- June 2008.
8) Europian Heart Congress (The Meeting of the European Scociety of Cardiology) –
Munich-Germany – September 2008
9) EUROPACE (The Meeting of the European Heart Rhythm Association) – Berlin /
Germany- June 2009.
10) Medtronic CRDM: Innovation for Life. Dubai, UAE, February 2010.
11) How to Approach Complex Arrhythmias. Vienna, Austria, June 2010.
12) The 17th
World Congress in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiac Techniques
(CARDIOSTIM) - Nice Acropolis- French Riviera, July 2010.
13) 14th
International Symposium on Progress in Clinical Pacing. Rome, Italy, November
2010.
14) Iranian KOL Event. Istanbul, Turkey, March 2011.
15) Hear Rhythm: 32nd
Annual Scientific Sessions in San Francisco, California. May 2011.

3. 16) EUROPACE (The Meeting of the European Heart Rhythm Association), Madrid, Spain,
June 2011.
17) The 18th
World Congress in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiac Techniques
(CARDIOSTIM) - Nice Acropolis- French Riviera, July 2012.
PUBLICATIONS:
1) Babak Kazemi, Arash Arya, Majid Haghjoo, Mohammad Ali Sadr-Ameli. Idiopathic
Submitral Left Ventricular Aneurysm: an unusual substrate for ventricular tachycardia in
Caucasians. Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal 2005; 5(3): 244-249.
2) Arash Arya, Majid Haghjoo, Mohammad Reza Dehghani, Mohammad Alasti, Hormoz
Alizadeh, Babak Kazemi, Mohammad Ali Sadr-Ameli. Effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy
on the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with an implantable cardioverter-
defibrillator. Heart Rhythm Journal 2005; 2:1094 –1098.
3) Babak Kazemi, Arash Arya, Majid Haghjoo, Mohammad Ali Sadr-Ameli. Coincident
Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant and Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia. Asian Cardiovascular
Thoracic Annals 2006; 14(4): 284-288.
4) Babak Kazemi, Majid Haghjoo, Arash Arya, Mohammad Ali Sadr-Ameli. Spontaneous
High Degree Atrioventricular Block during AV Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia. Europace 2006;
8:421–422.
5) Babak Kazemi, Majid Haghjoo, Arash Arya, Mohammad Ali Sadr-Ameli. Predictors of
Response to the Head-Up Tilt Test in Patients with Unexplained Syncope or Presyncope. Pacing
and Clinical Electrophysiology (PACE) Journal 2006; 29:846-851.

4. 6) Mohammad Reza Dehghani, Arash Arya, Majid Haghjoo, Zahra Emkanjoo, Mohammad
Alasti, Babak Kazemi, Mohammad Hosein Nikoo, Mohammad Ali Sadr-Ameli. Predictors of
appropriate ICD therapy in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Indian Pacing and
Electrophysiology Journal 2006; 6(1): 17-24.
7) Arash Arya, Mohammad Ali Sadr-Ameli, Majid Haghjoo, Babak Kazemi, Zahra Emkanjoo.
Can Amiodarone Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients with Hemodynamically-Tolerated
Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia and Coronary Artery Disease? Iranian Heart Journal 2006; 7
(1): 47-55.
8) Amir Farjam Fazelifar, Majid Haghjoo, Arash Arya; Babak Kazemi; Ataollah
Bagherzadeh; Mohammad Hosein Nikoo; Mohammad Ali Sadr-Ameli. Spontaneous alternans in
Brugada ECG morphology. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2006;15:131–134.
9) Bahram Sohrabi, Babak Kazemi, Naser Aslanabadi. Percutaneous treatment of catheter-
induced dissection of the right coronary artery and adjacent aortic wall: case report and review of
literature. J Invasive Cardiol 2007;19:E199–E202.
10) Fatemeh Ranjbar, Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Babak Kazemi, Abdolrasoul Safaeiyan.
Relaxation therapy in the background of standard antihypertensive drug treatment is effective in
management of moderate to severe essential hypertension. Saudi Med J 2007;28 (9):477-80.
11) Bahram Sohrabi, Babak Kazemi, Behzad Aghazadeh. Seasonal variation in enzymatic
infract size and mortality in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Saudi Med J
2009; 30 (3):179-183.
12) Babak Kazemi, Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Naser Safaei. Wide-QRS-Complex Tachycardia with
a Negative Concordance Pattern in the Precordial Leads: is a supraventricular origin possible? J
Cardiovasc Thorac Res 2009;1(1): 29-32.

5. 13) Nasser Safaii, Ahmadreza Jodati, Babak Kazemi. Results of Surgical Treatment of
Coarctation of the Thoracic Aorta at Madani Heart Center: a ten year experience. J Cardiovasc
Thorac Res 2009;1(2): 9-12.
14) Naser Safaie, Ahmadreza Jodati, Babak Kazemi, Hossein Montazerghaem. Tabriz
Experience in the Management of Extremity Vascular Trauma. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res
2009;1(4):1-5.
15) Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Babak Kazemi-Arbat, Ali Golmohammadi, Leili Pourafkari. Biatrial
Pacing vs. Intravenous Amiodarone in Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation after Coronary Artery
Bypass Surgery. Pak J Biol Sci. 2009;12(19):1325-9.
16) Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Babak Kazemi, Leili Pourafkari. Supraventricular Arrhythmia
Induction by an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator in a Patient with Hypertrophic
Cardiomyopathy. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology (PACE) Journal 2010; 33:372–376.
17) Naser Safaei, Babak Kazemi. Effect of Opium Use on Short-Term Outcome in Patients
Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010;58(2):62-7.
18) Babak Kazemi, Ayyoub Ahmadzadeh, Naser Safaei, Ahmadreza Jodati, Bahram Sohrabi,
Abbas Afrasiabi. Influence of Anterior Periaortic Fat Pad Excision on Incidence of Postoperative
Atrial Fibrillation Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011;40(5):1191-6.
19) Samad Ghaffari, Babak Kazemi, Parvaneh Aliakbarzadeh. Abnormal heart rate recovery
after exercise predicts coronary artery disease severity. Cardiol J. 2011;18(1):47-54.
20) Naser Aslanabadi, Ali Golmohammadi, Bahram Sohrabi, Babak Kazemi. Repeat
Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvotomy vs. Mitral Valve Replacement in Patients with
Restenosis after Previous Balloon Mitral Valvotomy and Unfavorable Valve Characteristics. Clin
Cardiol. 2011;34(6):401-6.

6. 21) Ahmadreza Jodati, Naser Safaei, Mehrnoosh Toufan, Babak Kazemi. A unique nail gun
injury to the heart with a delayed presentation. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2011;13(3):363-5.
22) Sohrabi B, Ghaffari S, Afsargarebagh R, Mahmoodi K, Pourafkari L, Abbasov E, Kazemi
B, Sepehrvand N, Ghojazadeh M, Jamshidi P. The impact of stepwise stent deployment on the
angiographic and clinical outcome of coronary angioplasty in the setting of an acute myocardial
infarction. Saudi Med J. 2011;32(6):571-8.
23) Babak Kazemi, Fariborz Akbarzadeh. Syncopal storm caused by glossopharyngeal
neuralgia. Am J Emerg Med. 2012;30(9):2101.e5-7.
24) Mehrnoush Toufan, Babak Kazemi, Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Amin Ataei, Majid Khalili.
Assessment of electrocardiography, echocardiography, and heart rate variability in dynamic and
static type athletes. Int J Gen Med. 2012;5:655-60.
25) Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Babak Kazemi, Azin Alizadeh, Amir Hossein Akbarzadeh. The
Efficacy of Web-Based Multimedia Education of Normal Electrocardiogram in Junior and Senior
Medical Students. Res Dev Med Educ, 2012, 1(2), 77-79.
26) Mehrnoush Toufan, Ahmadreza Jodati, Naser Safaei, Babak Kazemi, and Leili Pourafkari.
Myxomas in All Cardiac Chambers. Echocardiography. 2012 Sep 7. [Epub ahead of print]
27) Samad Ghaffari, Babak Kazemi, Iraj Gorbani Golzari. Efficacy of a New Accelerated
Streptokinase Regime in Acute Myocardial Infarction (A Double Blind Randomized Clinical Trial).
Cardiovasc Ther. 2013;31(1):53-9.
28) Samad Ghaffari, Babak Kazemi, Mehdi Toluey, Nariman Sepehrvand. The Effect of Pre-
thrombolytic Cyclosporine-A Injection on Clinical Outcome of Acute Anterior ST-Elevation
Myocardial Infarction. Cardiovasc Ther. 2013;31(4):e34-9.
29) Babak Kazemi, Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Naser Safaei, Aireza Yaghoubi, Kamran Shadvar,
Kamran Ghasemi. Prophylactic High-Dose Oral-N-Acetylcysteine Does Not Prevent Atrial

7. Fibrillation after Heart Surgery: A Prospective Double Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized
Clinical Trial. PACE 2013;36:1211-1219.
30) Ahmadreza Jodati, Babak Kazemi, Naser Safaei, Mehrnoush Toufan. A Ball in the Heart:
An Interesting Discovery in a Very Rare Cardiac Tumor. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2013;5(2):77-
80.
31) Mahmood Samadi, Babak Kazemi, Sona Golzari Oskoui, Mohammad Barzegar.
Assessment of Autonomic Dysfunction in Childhood Guillain-BarréSyndrome. J Cardiovasc Thorac
Res. 2013;5(3):81-85.
32) Mahmood Samadi, Babak Kazemi. Reply: pediatric guillain-barré syndrome and autonomic
dysfunction. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2013;5(4):181.
33) Ahmadreza Jodati, Babak Kazemi, Naser Safaei, Behrooz Shokoohi. Idiopathic Great
Saphenous Phlebosclerosis. Acta Med Iran. 2013;51(6):425-6.
34) Samad Ghaffari, Babak Kazemi, Jalil Dadashzadeh, Bita Sepehri. The Relation between
Left Coronary Dominancy and Atherosclerotic Involvement of Left Anterior Descending Artery
Origin. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2013;5(1):1-4.
35) Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Mehrnoush Toufan, Babak Kazemi, Fahemeh Naseralavi. Correlation
between Coronary Sinus O2 Saturation and Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in
Patients with Severe Heart Failure. Medical Journal of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and
Health Services Vol. 35, No. 5, Dec. – Jan. 2013, P: 2-11.
36) Fariborz Akbarzadeh, Mehrnoush Toufan, Babak Kazemi, Ali Abbasnedjad. Comparing
programmed parameters of triple-chamber pacemakers with Echocardiographic indexes and
manufacturer’s designed settings. Medical Journal of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and
Health Services 2013; 35(4), P:18

8. 37) Bahram Sohrabi, Peiman Jamshidi, Alireza Yaghoubi, Afshin Habibzadeh, Yashar
Hashemi-aghdam, Araz Moin, Babak Kazemi, Samad Ghaffari, Mohammad Reza Abdolahzadeh
Baghayi, Khalil Mahmoody. Comparison between Covered and Bare Cheatham-Platinum Stents for
Endovascular Treatment of Patients with Native Postductal Aortic Coarctation: immediate and
intermediate-term results. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2014;7(4):416-23.
38) Babak Kazemi, Ali Rostami, Naser Aslanabadi, Samad Ghaffari. Electrocardiographic P-
wave Indices as a Useful Tool to Predict Successful Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvotomy in
Patients with Mitral Stenosis. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2014;6(1):9-14.
39) Samad Ghaffari, Babak Kazemi, Gholamreza Saeidi, Nariman Sepehrvand, Leili
Pourafkari. The Value of Simplified Selvester QRS Scoring System in Predicting ST-segment
Resolution after Thrombolysis in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction. Eur J Cardiovasc Med.
2014;3(1):268-274.
40) Ahmadreza Jodati, Babak Kazemi, Naser Safaei. Rheumatic aortic regurgitation in a patient
with large congenital fenestrations in all three leaflets. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2014;6(1):61-3.
41) Bahram Sohrabi, Ahmad Separham, Reza Madadi, Mehrnoush Toufan, Nasibeh
Mohammadi, Naser Aslanabadi, Samad Ghaffari, Babak Kazemi. Difference between Outcome of
Left Circumflex Artery and Right Coronary Artery Related Acute Inferior Wall Myocardial
Infarction in Patients Undergoing Routine Early Angioplasty after Fibrinolysis. J Cardiovasc
Thorac Res. 2014;6(2):101-4.
42) Leili Pourafkari, Seyedrazi Seyedhosseini, Babak Kazemi, Heydarali Esmaili, Naser
Aslanabadi. Changes in Serum NT-Pro BNP and Left Atrial BNP Levels after Percutaneous
Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy in Sinus Rhythm Versus Atrial Fibrillation. J Cardiovasc
Thorac Res. 2014;6(3):175-9.

9. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
• EHRA (European Heart Rhythm Association) member

10. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
• EHRA (European Heart Rhythm Association) member